Philanthropic Foundations

Health giving patterns of philanthropic foundations.

Philanthropic foundations and the governance of global health: The Rockefeller Foundation and Product Development Partnerships

This paper explores the influence of private philanthropic foundations in the governance of global health. Such foundations, including Rockefeller and Ford, have historically played an important role in infectious disease control, providing seed finance to develop vaccines (e.g. yellow fever) and subsidies for the eradication of certain parasites (e.g. hookworm). More recently these actors have...

A system of scientific medicine. Philanthropic foundations in the Flexner era

investigation of the Harveian antecedents of Glisson's concept of irritability, and a number of seminal essays on different aspects of J. B. Van Helmont's work: his concept of disease, his concept of "Gas", and a long study and translation of his concept of "biological time". Pagel was a historian of the old school who believed, together with Helene Metzger, that "L'Historien doit se faire cont...

Philanthropic Priorities in Light of Pew Philanthropic Priorities in Light of Pew

Philanthropic Priorities in Light of Pew