BCG’s Partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Since 2003, BCG has partnered with the foundation, supporting its global focus on enhancing health care and reducing extreme poverty in developing countries, as well as its work to strengthen education in the US. 

We have worked with the foundation on many topics over the years, including developing strategies to combat diseases, creating and strengthening public-private partnerships, and designing approaches for delivering health interventions. We have worked across many diseases including HIV, TB, malaria, diarrheal disease, pneumonia, and others—and worked to advance drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics. 

Some of our efforts include helping to formulate a strategy for eradicating polio and fighting HIV. We also worked alongside the foundation and bKash—a company the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is an investor in—to increase access to financial services for the poor in Bangladesh. Together we designed a target operating model and governance structure that will promote interoperability, connecting bKash customers to the formal banking system and access to a wider range of financial products and services.