The University of Washington received a $540.2 million, 10-year grant from the Gates Foundation to expand global health research and data collection. Record gift expands global health dataWhat we know:The Gates Foundation awarded the university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, an independent research organization at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Featured article"We are deeply grateful to the Gates Foundation for this extraordinary investment in IHME and the University of Washington School of Medicine," said Dr. Timothy Dellit, CEO of UW Medicine and dean of the University of Washington School of Medicine. The grant will also support the institute's health forecasting, future-scenarios analysis, and global health spending tracking. The backstory:The Gates Foundation and the state of Washington provided the founding investment that established the institute at the University of Washington in 2007.