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The ‘Bill Gates problem’: do billionaire philanthropists skew global health research?

Personal priorities are often trumping real needs and skewing where charitable funding goes.
  1. Andy Stirling

    1. Andy Stirling is a professor of science and technology policy at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, UK.

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The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire Tim Schwab Metropolitan Books (2023)

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Nature 626, 477-479 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00394-0

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