Speaking Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Co-chair Melinda Gates said her foundation — the world’s largest private foundation — will be “more than doubling down” on nutrition investments in the lead-up to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Gates addressed members of Congress and global development professionals in Washington, D.C., stressing that investment in nutrition is required for success in other sectors of development.
“If we want to cut [childhood deaths] in half … nutrition underlies more than half of those deaths and so it’s fundamentally important,” Gates said.