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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, and the Wellcome Sanger Foundation are teaming up to fight some of the world's biggest health problems.
The three organizations are committing a total of $300 million over the next three years to fight infectious diseases, climate change, and antimicrobial resistance, among other things, the Guardian reports.
"We can make advances that wouldn't otherwise be possible," says Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, CEO of the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
"I am particularly excited about the chance to break down barriers between often isolated areas of work."
The initial $300 million will go to climate change, infectious disease, and antimicrobial resistance, as well as to better understand the interplay between nutrition, immunity, disease, and developmental outcomes.
"To better protect people globally from the devastating effects of climate change on health, solutions that draw across climate, health, and agricultural science will be needed," Krogsgaard Thomsen says in a press release.
"This initiative will help drive deeper understanding of the impacts of climate change, develop novel solutions, and strengthen available data to support environmental sustainability, build food system resilience, and protect the health of vulnerable populations around the world."
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