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[RFP] New funding opportunity for Screening Platform 2026-001

Visit Report on Ghana: Advancing Rapid Diagnostic Test Development and Strengthening Partnerships in Malaria-Endemic Countries

Partner’s Interview: Dr. Jacob Creswell, Stop TB Partnership

[RFP] New funding opportunities for PD, TRP and HTLP 2026-001

"SDGs Talk" Global Health Discussion with Osamu Kunii - Vol. 5 – Ryota Fujimaki

Announcement of a New Selection Committee Member

[End of October 2025] Upcoming Request for Proposals for R&D Platforms

Partner's Interview: Prof. Eizo Takashima, Ehime University

GHIT Fund Expands Individual Donation Opportunities to Accelerate Global Health Impact

Forbes JAPAN x GHIT Fund Collaboration Interview 2025 Vol.4 (Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)

GHIT - Showcasing Partnership Behind Breakthrough Pediatric Treatment for Preschoolers with Schistosomiasis

[RFP] New funding opportunity for Screening Platform (Updated)

Partner’s Interview: Dr. Ashley Birkett, PATH

[RFP] New funding opportunities for PD, HTLP and TRP 2025-002

Partner’s Interview: Ms. Mariko Kitahama, NEC

Notice of Board Member Changes

Video Series: Innovative Approaches to Combat Schistosomiasis (Updated)

[June 2025] Upcoming Request for Proposals for R&D Platforms

Partner’s Interview: Dr. Masahiro Kajihara, Hokkaido University

"SDGs Talk" Global Health Discussion with Osamu Kunii - Vol. 4 – Keiko Kojima

Partner's Interview：Dr. Mandeep Dhaliwal, UNDP

Forbes JAPAN x GHIT Fund Collaboration Interview 2025 Vol.3 (NEC)

GHIT Fund Proposal Writing Seminar at the R&D Forum

Forbes JAPAN x GHIT Fund Collaboration Interview 2025 Vol.2 (Merck BioPharma)

Announcement of New Selection Committee Members

Forbes JAPAN x GHIT Fund Collaboration Interview 2025 Vol.1 (SDGs Talk)

"SDGs Talk" Global Health Discussion with Osamu Kunii - Vol. 3 – Jun Hori

GHIT R&D Forum 2024 Special Website Launched

[RFP] New funding opportunity for Screening Platform

Website server maintenance on Dec.16, 2024 (JST）

Donations Through Minato Ward's Furusato Nozei ("Hometown Tax") System

"SDGs Talk" Global Health Discussion with Osamu Kunii - Vol. 2 – Sawako Agawa

New funding opportunity for Product Development Platform (Updated)

New funding opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

New funding opportunity for Target Research Platform

Announcement of a New Selection Committee Member

New Uniting Efforts report: Planning for Access During Research and Development

Reflections on GHIT’s unique model and development journey of a potential new treatment option for schistosomiasis

CEO Osamu Kunii Appointed Chairperson of Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize

"SDGs Talk" Global Health Discussion with Osamu Kunii - Vol. 1 - Ken Noguchi

New funding opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

New funding opportunity for Screening Platform

Announcing New Board Member Dr. Nicholas Cammack

Announcement of a New Selection Committee Member

New funding opportunity for Product Development Platform

New funding opportunity for Target Research Platform

Mizuho and GHIT Fund Post Special Discussion Titled "Impact Management" as Promotional Article in Nikkei Business

Announcement of a New Selection Committee Member

Forbes JAPAN x GHIT Fund Collaboration Interview Vol.2 "Why the Business Activities of Yamaha Motor Company in Low and Middle-Income Countries Resonate with the GHIT Fund, Which Is Dedicated to Combating Infectious Disease"

New webpage “GHIT in 1 min” published

Forbes JAPAN x GHIT Fund Collaboration Interview Vol.1

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

New investment opportunity for Screening Platform

[Meeting Report] HTLP Expert Panel Meeting

GHIT Fund Supports First Neglected Tropical Disease Student Contest in Japan

【Bolivia and Brazil Visit Report】Development of Diagnostic Tools for Chagas Disease and Strengthening Global Partnerships in Central and South America

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform

We are posting “GHIT Fund's 10th Anniversary Video Relay”.(Updated)

[Kenya Visit Report] Aiming to Build Strategic Partnerships with Low and Middle Income Countries

Website server maintenance on Sep.13, 2023 (JST）

Interview: Dr. Abhay Satoskar (The Ohio State University), “Contributions of GHIT Fund - Exchanges with Japanese Researchers”

New investment opportunity for Screening Platform

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

Interview: Dr. Abhay Satoskar (The Ohio State University), “Learn about leishmaniasis”

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

Message from CEO Osamu Kunii on World Malaria Day

Announcing New Selection Committee Member

Video message from CEO Osamu Kunii for GHIT 3.0

GHIT Fund Announces New Council Member Cheryl Moore

Message from CEO Osamu Kunii on World Tuberculosis Day.

Interview: Shinjiro Hamano MD, PhD, (Nagasaki University), “Contributions of GHIT from a Researcher's Perspective”

New investment opportunity for Screening Platform

Interivew video: Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellocme ”The Expectation for GHIT”

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

CEPI visited GHIT to discuss
strengthening partnership in the development of tools to fight infectious diseases.

New investment opportunity for Screening Platform

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform

GHIT Fund welcomes linkties Co., Ltd. (Forbes Japan) as a new sponsor

Tie-up project with Forbes Japan: Article 5

Tie-up project with Forbes Japan: Article 4

GHIT Fund welcomes Diligent Corporation as a new sponsor

Tie-up project with Forbes Japan: Article 3

Greetings from Osamu Kunii, GHIT Fund CEO and Executive Director

Tie-up project with Forbes Japan: Special Article with Astellas Pharma Inc.

GHIT Fund welcomes ZVC Japan K.K. (Zoom) as New Sponsor

New investment opportunity for Screening Platform

Tie-up project with Forbes Japan: Article 2

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

Tie-up project with Forbes Japan: Article 1

Tie-up project with Forbes Japan: a series of five interviews

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform

Announcing New Board Member Dr. Richard Seabrook

Announcing New Supervisory Board Member Ms. Saori Nakamura

Statement on passing of Dr. Tadataka Yamada

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

New investment opportunity for Screening Platform

Catherine Kaseri Ohura steps down from CEO

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Shorter treatment for Chagas disease just as effective as longer one, according to study in Bolivia

Prof. Kita Kiyoshi steps down from the member of the GHIT Selection Committee

Scientific article archive launch

New investment opportunity for Screening Platform

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform

New investment opportunity for Screening Platform

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform

Uniting Efforts published a new report entitled "Landscape of funding and financing opportunities for access and delivery of health technologies for neglected diseases"

Announcing New Board Member Dr. Katey Einterz Owen

Celebration of Mr. Bill Gates and Dr. Jeremy Farrar’s conferment of the Order of the Rising Sun

Announcing New Selection Committee Members

To our partners

New investment opportunity for Screening Platform

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform

New investment opportunity for Screening Platform

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendations for FY 2019 to Dr. Slingsby, founding CEO & Executive Director of GHIT

TICAD VII dedicated website launched

GHIT Twitter Channel Launched

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

World Economic Forum: How to create a world where healthcare is a right, not a luxury

Forbes Japan: Self Made Women 100

GHIT Endorses Khartoum Call for Action at Sixth International Conference on Mycetoma

GHIT applauds Wellcome’s new commitment to the global fight against Leishmaniasis

Launch New Initiative to Unite Efforts Across Innovation, Access and Delivery of Health Technologies for Unmet Health Needs

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

Announcing New Selection Committee Members

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

BT Slingsby steps down from CEO, end of FY2018

GHIT Fund Announces New Council Member Jeremy Farrar

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-Lead Platform

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform

Farewell message from Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Founding Chair of GHIT

New investment opportunity for HTLP

Announcement of New Board Member

Japan Times: Tokyo-based fund CEO leads public-private fight against diseases around globe

Japan Times: Aiming for truly universal health coverage

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform in Partnership with Wellcome Trust

New investment opportunity for Hit-to-lead Platform

Financial Times: Zika threat demands a global response

Deutsche Welle: Global health fund CEO: 'The Ebola crisis was a wakeup-call'

New investment opportunity for Target Research Platform in Partnership with Grand Challenges

New investment opportunity for Screening Platform

New investment opportunities for Hit-to-lead Platform

Japan’s leadership is critical to eliminating NTDs

New investment opportunity for Product Development Platform

Forbes: Investing In Drugs That Won't Make Money

Science "Japanese foundation joins the public health Grand Challenge bandwagon"

New investment opportunities for Hit-to-lead Platform and Product Development Platform

Dr. Slingsby was interviewed by Toyo Keizai Online

Announcement for New Council Member

Professor Peter Piot, 2014 TIME Person of the Year: "The Ebola Fighters"

The National Bureau of Asian Research: The Current Ebola Outbreak: Implications for Asia and Global Health Innovation

Devex impact: How to forge successful R&D partnerships

Dr. Slingsby was interviewed by Nikkei

Professor. Peter Piot's article on the Ebola epidemic

GHIT Fund RFP Screening Platform 2014-002

GHIT Fund RFP2014-002 Release

SciDev Q&A: A partnership to eradicate malaria

The Economist (Print edition Nov 16th, 2013) run a story about the GHIT Fund.

Scientific American "Japan and Partners Team Up to Tackle Neglected Diseases"

Sci Dev Net "Japanese fund to tackle infectious diseases in 'historic' agreement"

Science Insider "Japan Joins Fight Against Neglected Diseases"

Financial Times "Japan in pioneering partnerships to fund global health research"