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Research & Updates
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April 2024
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Cool Things Our GHW Grantees Have Done in 2023
Date
April 30, 2024
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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April 2024
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Day in the Life: Sam Anschell, Program Associate — Global Aid Policy
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April 23, 2024
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
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April 2024
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Day in the Life: Abhi Kumar, Program Associate — Farm Animal Welfare
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April 17, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2024
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Day in the Life: Alex Bowles, Senior Program Associate — Science and Global Health R&D
Date
April 17, 2024
Focus Area
Global Health R&D
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February 2024
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Social Science Research Topics for Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
February 02, 2024
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2024
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Social Science Research Topics for Animal Welfare
Date
January 09, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2023
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New Positions on our Cause Prioritization Team (Global Health and Wellbeing)
Date
December 21, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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November 2023
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New Grantmaking Program: Global Public Health Policy
Date
November 22, 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
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October 2023
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Our Planned Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommendations for the Next Few Years
Date
October 05, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2023
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Announcing the Awardees for Our $150M Regranting Challenge
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January 12, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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November 2022
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Does Putting Kids in School Now Put Money in Their Pockets Later? Revisiting a Natural Experiment in Indonesia
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November 23, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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September 2022
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Cause Exploration Prizes: Announcing Our Prizes
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September 09, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2022
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New Shallow Investigations: Telecommunications and Civil Conflict Reduction
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July 25, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2022
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Incoming Program Officer for Effective Altruism Community Growth (Global Health and Wellbeing): James Snowden
Date
July 21, 2022
Focus Area
Effective Altruism (Global Health and Wellbeing)
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July 2022
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Report on Social Returns to Productivity Growth
Date
July 15, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2022
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Update on Our Planned Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommended Charities in 2022
Date
July 05, 2022
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
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February 2022
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New Grantmaking Program: Supporting the Effective Altruism Community around Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
February 22, 2022
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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January 2022
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Incoming Program Officers for South Asian Air Quality and Global Aid Policy
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January 03, 2022
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
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November 2021
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2021 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities: Why We’re Giving More Going Forward
Date
November 19, 2021
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
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November 2021
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Technical Updates to Our Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization Framework
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November 18, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2021
Title
New Roles in Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
June 29, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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December 2020
Title
2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 11, 2020
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2020
Title
How to Lower the Price of Plant-Based Meat
Date
August 12, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2019
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2019 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2019
Title
Will Companies Make Good on Cage-Free Pledges?
Date
August 12, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2019
Title
GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat
Date
July 09, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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June 2019
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Explaining Our Bet on Sherlock Biosciences’ Innovations in Viral Diagnostics
Date
June 10, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2018
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2018 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 12, 2018
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2018
Title
Fish: The Forgotten Farm Animal
Date
January 18, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2018
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Role in Global Price Drops for Antiretroviral Drugs
Date
January 10, 2018
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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December 2017
Title
Our ‘Second Chance’ Program for NIH Transformative Research Applicants
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December 05, 2017
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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November 2017
Title
Update on Investigating Neglected Goals in Biological Research
Date
November 30, 2017
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2017
Title
Why Did the EU Lead the World on Farm Animal Welfare and How Can It Lead Again?
Date
September 18, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2017
Title
New Report on the Welfare Differences Between Cage and Cage-Free Housing
Date
September 15, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2017
Title
Why This Could Be the Year of the Broiler Chicken
Date
May 14, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2017
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Why Are the US Corporate Cage-Free Campaigns Succeeding?
Date
April 11, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2016
Title
Good Ventures and Giving Now vs. Later (2016 Update)
Date
December 28, 2016
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
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June 2016
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center for Global Development
Date
June 15, 2016
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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March 2016
Title
Initial Grants to Support Corporate Cage-free Reforms
Date
March 31, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2015
Title
Differential Technological Development: Some Early Thinking
Date
September 30, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2015
Title
Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard
Date
September 11, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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May 2015
Title
Our Updated Agenda for Science Philanthropy
Date
May 06, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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April 2015
Title
Science Policy and Infrastructure
Date
April 21, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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April 2015
Title
Breakthrough Fundamental Science
Date
April 14, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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April 2015
Title
Translational Science and the “Valley of Death”
Date
April 09, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2015
Title
Investigating Neglected Goals in Scientific Research
Date
March 26, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2015
Title
Open Philanthropy Project Update: U.S. Policy
Date
March 10, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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February 2015
Title
The Path to Biomedical Progress
Date
February 27, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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May 2014
Title
Potential U.S. Policy Focus Areas
Date
May 29, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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May 2014