Dr. Alan Bernstein has been appointed to the Scientific Board of the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative.  The Grand Challenges in Global  Health initiative supports research on critical scientific and technological problems that, if solved, could lead to important advances against diseases of the developing world.  This innovative grant-making program is managed and administered by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and supported by a $200 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

The work of the Foundation for NIH on the Grand Challenges initiative is guided by an international scientific board comprising scientists and public health experts from 13 countries, including several of the developing world. 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.