Model:Use challenges to focus attention, effort on specific problems. Traced back to mathematician David Hilbert who 100+ years ago defined unsolved problems to spark progress in mathematics
Purpose:In 2003, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched Grand Challenges in Global Health, including multiple funding partners. Focused on 14 scientific challenges that, if solved, could lead to key advances in preventing, treating, and curing diseases of the developing world.
Concept:Seek to engage the world’s most creative minds. In initial year awarded 44 grants for research projects involving scientists in 33 countries