From 2002 to 2007, Sir Richard served as founding executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Under Secretary General of the United Nations.

This entails analysis, policy formulation, and consensus building, followed by intensive collaborations with individual developing countries to achieve large-scale application of the new ideas.

The Global Health Group is supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ExxonMobil, and numerous other sources.

The MEI team is based in San Francisco and Southern Africa and has made a significant contribution to policy, science and practice in malaria elimination.

The Global Health Group, in collaboration with the Australian Government, the University of Queensland, and WHO launched the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) in Brisbane in February 2009.

The second front of Feachem's Global Health Group is the PSHi, which focuses on studying and enhancing the role of the private sector in healthcare delivery in developing countries.

The Global Health Group has joined with PwC to document pioneering PPIPs in that Spain, Lesotho, Latin America, S.E.

Sir Richard and Winnie Mpanju-Shumbusho were both senior authors of a 2019 report in The Lancet about committing to the eradication of malaria across the world by 2030.