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Research & Updates
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April 2024
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Day in the Life: Sam Anschell, Program Associate — Global Aid Policy
Date
April 23, 2024
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
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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
Date
April 18, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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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April 2024
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Development through Economic Growth
Date
April 16, 2024
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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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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February 2024
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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Laws
Date
February 29, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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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EA Consulting Network: The Case for Developing Specialized Expertise with Lewis Bollard
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January 11, 2024
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Farm Animal Welfare
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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)
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December 21, 2023
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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December 2023
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A Year of Wins for Farmed Animals
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December 14, 2023
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Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2023
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A Case Study on Insecticide-Treated Bednets
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December 01, 2023
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Global Health & Development
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November 2023
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Hear This Idea: Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare
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November 22, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2023
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New Grantmaking Program: Global Public Health Policy
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November 22, 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
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November 2023
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What Could AI Mean for Animals?
Date
November 16, 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
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November 01, 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
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October 2023
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Europe’s Animal Welfare Reforms Are Under Threat
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October 18, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Europe
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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
Date
October 11, 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
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October 2023
Title
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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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
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2023
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We Love Animals. Why Do We Torture Them?
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July 18, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2023
May 2023
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A Big Supreme Court Win for Farm Animals
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May 12, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2023
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Inside Philanthropy: A Deep Dive Into Two of Open Philanthropy’s EA-Inspired Programs
Date
March 17, 2023
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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March 2023
Title
What Happened to Plant-Based Meat?
Date
March 07, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2023
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Works in Progress: Every generator Is a policy failure
Date
February 24, 2023
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
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
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2023
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Announcing the Awardees for Our $150M Regranting Challenge
Date
January 12, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2023
December 2022
Title
Big Wins for Farm Animals This Decade
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December 22, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2022
Title
How Can Governments Advance Alternative Proteins?
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November 28, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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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October 2022
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Telecommunications in LMICs
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October 06, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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October 2022
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Civil Conflict Reduction
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October 06, 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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August 2022
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The War on Meat and Milk Alternatives
Date
August 29, 2022
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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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
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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
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July 05, 2022
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
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June 2022
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Farm Animals at the Supreme Court
Date
June 16, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2022
Title
Have We Hit Peak Plant-Based Meat?
Date
April 01, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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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February 2022
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Vox: How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth
Date
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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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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December 2021
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Ten Big Wins for Farm Animals in 2021
Date
December 24, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2021
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STAT: For an antiviral researcher, Covid brings a flood of attention — and opportunity
Date
December 20, 2021
Focus Area
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
Date
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
Date
November 26, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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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July 2021
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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New Roles in Global Health and Wellbeing
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June 29, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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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
Date
June 08, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
June 2021
Title
Scale-Up Economics for Cultured Meat
Date
June 07, 2021
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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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
Date
May 10, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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May 2021
Title
The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming
Date
May 10, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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
Date
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
Date
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
Title
If We Build It, Will They Come?
Date
March 09, 2021
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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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
Title
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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Seven Big Wins for Farm Animals in 2020
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December 21, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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
Date
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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December 2020
Title
2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 11, 2020
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2020
Title
What Could a Biden Administration Mean for Farm Animals?
Date
November 20, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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
Date
November 02, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2020
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Nikkei Asia: Thai Food Producers Shift Focus to Animal Welfare
Date
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
Date
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
Date
October 05, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2020
Title
Political Opportunities for Farm Animals in Europe
Date
September 25, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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
Title
The Atlantic: The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
Date
August 14, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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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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July 2020
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San Fransisco Business Times: Biotech Legends Help Launch Parasite-Fighting Startup with Deep Stanford Ties
Date
July 13, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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July 2020
Title
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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May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
Title
Barron’s Penta: How Philanthropists are Tackling COVID-19
Date
March 18, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
February 2020
Title
Documentaries and Farm Animals
Date
February 14, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
December 2019