Gates after Yamada

Tadataka "Tachi" Yamada's decision to resign as president of the Global Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provides an opportunity for the foundation to refocus its global health programs. His successor's primary challenges will include deciding which compounds should go into clinical trials and making the organization's culture less opaque and bureaucratic.

The next global health president should have the skills and toughness to streamline the foundation's bureaucracy and to make it more transparent to potential collaborators, senior officials from Gates-funded organizations told BioCentury. Most did not want to be identified because of fears that critical remarks could endanger their ability to obtain future grants from the foundation...