Sir

Tikki Pang, in Correspondence (Nature 426, 383; 200310.1038/426383a) about your Editorial “In praise of Gates” (Nature 425, 435; 2003), calls for the Gates Foundation to support the translation of knowledge into actions to improve people's health.

Pang will be pleased to hear that the Gates Foundation is backing one key solution to addressing the ‘know–do’ gap: education. Among other projects, it is supporting an innovative ‘E-learning certification programme in global health’ directed at health professionals working in Africa, co-authored by African and international medical scientists and clinicians (see http://www.tall.ox.ac.uk/globalhealthprogramme). The aim is to provide research-based and up-to-date information where and when it is needed. The first module will be on malaria.