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Research & Updates
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April 2024
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals
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April 18, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2024
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Current Affairs: Why Factory Farming is a Moral Atrocity
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March 04, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2024
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EA Consulting Network: The Case for Developing Specialized Expertise with Lewis Bollard
Date
January 11, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2023
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Hear This Idea: Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare
Date
November 22, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down
Date
November 01, 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
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October 2023
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Does Alternative Meat Need Philanthropy to Take It Beyond?
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October 16, 2023
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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October 2023
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The Indian Express: Bihar to tackle air Pollution with better monitoring
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October 11, 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
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August 2023
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How I Learned To Love Shrimp Podcast: Amanda Hungerford on Open Philanthropy’s funding for farmed animal welfare
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August 10, 2023
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Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2023
March 2023
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Inside Philanthropy: A Deep Dive Into Two of Open Philanthropy’s EA-Inspired Programs
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March 17, 2023
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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February 2023
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Works in Progress: Every generator Is a policy failure
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February 24, 2023
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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February 2023
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CNBC: Facebook co-founder Moskovitz funds research into cooling the Earth with sunlight reflection
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February 07, 2023
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2023
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Devex: Gates, USAID among Open Philanthropy’s $150M regrant contest winners
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January 12, 2023
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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February 2022
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Vox: How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth
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February 20, 2022
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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January 2022
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Devex: Open Philanthropy launches programs for South Asia, global aid work
Date
January 06, 2022
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
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December 2021
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STAT: For an antiviral researcher, Covid brings a flood of attention — and opportunity
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December 20, 2021
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Scientific Research
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December 2021
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The New York Times: We Will Look Back on This Age of Cruelty to Animals in Horror
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December 16, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2021
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NPR: On #GivingTuesday, how to get the most bang for your buck
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November 30, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2021
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Vox: These are the charities where your money will do the most good
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November 29, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2021
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Vox: Why the future of animal welfare lies beyond the West
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November 26, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
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July 12, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2021
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Reuters: Caged animal farming must end in EU, European Commission says
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June 30, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
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The Washington Post: As grocery prices rise, alt-meat takes a bigger bite of Big Meat’s burger
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June 08, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2021
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PBS News Hour: In her bid to end TB, Mireille Kamariza is shattering stereotypes about scientists
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May 10, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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May 2021
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The New York Times: The Future of Virus Tracking Can Be Found on This College Campus
Date
May 05, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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April 2021
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The Washington Post: Epicurious drops beef recipes, drawing ire from the pro-burger crowd — and some food activists
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2021
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Financial Times: Air pollution: Asia’s deadliest public health crisis is not Covid
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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April 2021
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The Brussels Times: European Citizens’ initiative to end the use of cages in animal farming in EU on the right track
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April 18, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Europe
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March 2021
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Forbes: French Birds, Spanish Cows, Danish Minks: The Fight For Animals’ Rights In Europe
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March 19, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2021
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The New York Times: Unlocking the Covid Code
Date
March 12, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2021
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Vox: The next frontier for animal welfare: fish
Date
March 02, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2021
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80,000 Hours: Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
Date
February 15, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2021
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The New York Times: Scientists Are Trying to Spot New Viruses Before They Cause Pandemics
Date
February 15, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2020
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The New York Times: Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?
Date
December 17, 2020
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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December 2020
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Comstock’s Magazine: Promise for New Proteins
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December 14, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2020
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The New York Times: California’s Housing Crisis: How a Bureaucrat Pushed to Build
Date
December 13, 2020
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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November 2020
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Nature: Coronavirus Testing Finally Gathers Speed
Date
November 05, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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November 2020
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BioSpace: Icosavax Turns VLP Tech to COVID-19 Vaccine, with $16.5 Million in New Financing
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November 02, 2020
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Scientific Research
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October 2020
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Nikkei Asia: Thai Food Producers Shift Focus to Animal Welfare
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October 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2020
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Scientific American: Lab-Made ‘Miniproteins’ Could Block the Coronavirus from Infecting Cells
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October 12, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2020
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Stanford Medicine News Center: Jeffrey Glenn Granted $14.3 Million to Develop Broad Spectrum Drug
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October 05, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2020
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Vox: Building housing — lots of it — will lay the foundation for a new future
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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September 2020
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Vox: Farms have bred chickens so large that they’re in constant pain
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2020
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Forbes: 2021 Breakthrough Prize Winners Announced: Researcher Who Developed Protein Design Technology Awarded $3 Million
Date
September 10, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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August 2020
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The Atlantic: The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
Date
August 14, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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July 2020
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San Fransisco Business Times: Biotech Legends Help Launch Parasite-Fighting Startup with Deep Stanford Ties
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July 13, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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July 2020
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Forbes: A New 20-Minute Covid-19 Test Will Use CRISPR Gene Editing Technology To Deliver Results At The Doctor’s Office, Supermarket, Or Workplace
Date
July 01, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2020
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Barron’s Penta: How Philanthropists are Tackling COVID-19
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March 18, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2019
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Vox: A US charity just did something radical: asked recipients where the money should go
Date
December 20, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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October 2019