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WHO Malaria Chief Warns the Gates Foundation's Dominance Has Created a Research 'Cartel'
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In a 2008 internal memo to WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, first reported by The New York Times, the agency's malaria chief Dr. Arata Kochi warned that the Gates Foundation's enormous funding of malaria science — though vital — could carry 'far-reaching, largely unintended consequences.' Kochi wrote that many leading malaria researchers had become 'locked up in a cartel' whose interlocking grants made independent peer review increasingly difficult, that the foundation's dominance could erode the WHO's policy-setting role, and that its decision-making was 'a closed internal process… accountable to none other than itself.' The leaked memo became one of the most cited critiques of concentrated power in global-health philanthropy; the foundation said it welcomed scientific debate and valued the WHO's role.
Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/who-doctor-notes-gates-charity-concern/
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