Bill Gates call on Ajay Sood to understand priorities and explore further collaborations
New Delhi: Bill Gates, Co-chair and Trustee of the Gates Foundation, on Wednesday visited the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India to meet Ajay K Sood to understand priorities and explore further collaborations.
During his visit, Prof. Sood gave an overview of the work of the Office of PSA's wide-ranging engagements, including the National Missions on One Health, Quantum Technologies, Livelihood, Green Hydrogen, One Nation One Subscription etc. The discussion focused majorly on priority engagements of One Health Mission, Waste to Wealth Mission with the Foundation.
Gates appreciated the focus on science and technology initiatives.
He expressed interest in supporting the Government of India’s efforts on the upcoming
One Health Mission and the power of environmental surveillance for disease control.
He stressed the need for innovations to address animal health, disease modelling and novel diagnostics technologies.
He further emphasised the opportunity for India to support both domestic and global challenges in these areas.
IBNS
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