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Research & Updates
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December 2019
Title
10 Years of Progress for Farm Animals
Date
December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
December 2018
Title
2018 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 12, 2018
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
December 2019
Title
2019 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
December 2020
Title
2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 11, 2020
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
November 2021
Title
2021 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities: Why We’re Giving More Going Forward
Date
November 19, 2021
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Content Type
July 2021
Title
80,000 Hours Podcast: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
Date
July 12, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
April 2024
Title
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
Content Type
November 2023
Title
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
Content Type
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
Content Type
May 2023
Title
A Big Supreme Court Win for Farm Animals
Date
May 12, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
December 2023
Title
A Case Study on Insecticide-Treated Bednets
Date
December 01, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
April 2014
August 2012
Title
A Conversation about Vaccination: Violaine Mitchell, Interim Director, Country Immunization Programs
Date
August 20, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
February 2014
Title
A Conversation with the Gates Foundation about Malaria Funding and Eradication
Date
February 10, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
April 2015
Title
A Scientist with 18 Years Experience in the Tissue Engineering Industry
Date
April 23, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
December 2023
Title
A Year of Wins for Farmed Animals
Date
December 14, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
October 2013
Title
Aaron Goldzimer, Student, Yale Law School
Date
October 19, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Adam Sheingate, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Date
August 02, 2013
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2015
Title
Advocacy for Improved or Increased U.S. Foreign Aid
Date
April 20, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
September 2014
Title
Aid to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Date
September 01, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
March 2014
Title
Alan D. Viard, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Date
March 25, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
July 2016
Title
Alan Durning, Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
July 05, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
October 2016
Title
Alan Durning, Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
October 25, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
August 2015
Title
Alan Durning, Founder and Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
August 18, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
July 2017
Title
Alan Durning, Founder and Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
July 12, 2017
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
March 2016
July 2013
Title
Alex Rugamba, Director for Regional Integration and Trade, and Angela Nalikka, Chief Investment Officer
Date
July 30, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
July 2013
Title
Allan Coukell, Brian Hill, and Nicole Mahoney, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
July 17, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
June 2013
Title
Allan Steinhardt, Former Program Manager and Chief Scientist, DARPA
Date
June 13, 2013
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
June 2012
Title
Allison Phillips and Sir Richard Feachem, UCSF
Date
June 01, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
November 2017
Title
Amanda Glassman, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 29, 2017
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
April 2013
Title
Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, and Kate McQueston, Program Coordinator
Date
April 10, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
August 27, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
December 2013
Title
Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
December 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
July 2021
November 2012
Title
Andy Ko, Campaign Manager, and Jamie Wood, Program Associate, Campaign for a New Drug Policy
Date
November 19, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Angela Geiger, Chief Strategy Officer, Alzheimer’s Association, and Dr. Dean Hartley, Director of Science Initiatives, Alzheimer’s Association
Date
June 23, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
October 2012
Title
Anil Soni, Former CEO of Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
Date
October 18, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
May 2019
Title
Animal Agriculture and Climate Change
Date
May 02, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
December 2015
Title
Animal Product Alternatives
Date
December 13, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Anna Bershteyn, Institute for Disease Modeling
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
July 2012
Title
Anna Taylor, Senior Nutrition Adviser, Department for International Development
Date
July 30, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
March 2015
Title
Anna Upton, PhD, Director Biology, TB Alliance; Kari Frame, Senior Manager, Resource Mobilization, TB Alliance; Willo Brock, Senior Vice President, External Affairs, TB Alliance; Nader Fotouhi, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, TB Alliance
Date
March 04, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
November 2016
Title
Anne Malleau, Executive Director, Global Animal Partnership
Date
November 08, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
January 2023
Title
Announcing the Awardees for Our $150M Regranting Challenge
Date
January 12, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
May 2013
Title
Anthropogenic Climate Change
Date
May 10, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
January 2016
Title
Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke University, and Co-Director, Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy
Date
January 06, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
June 2013
Title
Audrey Singer, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
Date
June 25, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2020
Title
Barron’s Penta: How Philanthropists are Tackling COVID-19
Date
March 18, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
August 2016
Title
Behavioral Treatments for Insomnia
Date
August 01, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Ben Goldsmith, Executive Director, Farm Forward
Date
April 22, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Ben Leo, Senior Fellow, Director of Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Program
Date
September 03, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
May 2013
Title
Bhaven Sampat, Associate Professor, Columbia University, Department of Health Policy and Management
Date
May 02, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
December 2022
Title
Big Wins for Farm Animals This Decade
Date
December 22, 2022
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
March 2014
Title
Bill Gale, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution; Co-Director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Date
March 28, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
November 2020
Title
BioSpace: Icosavax Turns VLP Tech to COVID-19 Vaccine, with $16.5 Million in New Financing
Date
November 02, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2018
Title
Bloomberg: Protein Engineering May Be the Future of Science
Date
March 15, 2018
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
April 2015
Title
Breakthrough Fundamental Science
Date
April 14, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
October 2012
Title
Brian Nosek, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
Date
October 09, 2012
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Brian Steensland, Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University – Indianapolis
Date
October 24, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
October 2016
Title
Brian Tomasik, Research Lead, Foundational Research Institute
Date
October 06, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
May 2014
March 2017
Title
Bruce Friedrich, Executive Director, and Clare Bland, Development Director, The Good Food Institute (GFI)
Date
March 27, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Bruce Friedrich, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Farm Sanctuary
Date
September 03, 2013
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2015
Title
Bruce Miller, A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco
Date
April 28, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2013
Title
Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director, Public Library of Science
Date
March 26, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
June 2017
Title
Can We Knock Out Factory Farming’s Supports?
Date
June 28, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2016
August 2016
Title
Carl Shulman, Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute
Date
August 16, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2017
Title
Carolina Macedo, Director of Farm Animal Campaigns, Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal
Date
April 14, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
June 2013
Title
Carolyn Bruzdzinski, Chief Mission Delivery Officer, California Division of the American Cancer Society
Date
June 19, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
September 2022
Title
Cause Exploration Prizes: Announcing Our Prizes
Date
September 09, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
September 2014
Title
Centers for Disease Control’s Excessive Alcohol Use Prevention Team (Alcohol Program)
Date
September 05, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
December 2013
Title
Chip Mellor, President and General Counsel, Institute for Justice
Date
December 12, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
January 2015
Title
Christine Sizemore, Section Chief, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and Other Microbial Diseases Section, National Institutes of Health
Date
January 29, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
October 2022
Title
Civil Conflict Reduction
Date
October 06, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
May 2013
February 2023
Title
CNBC: Facebook co-founder Moskovitz funds research into cooling the Earth with sunlight reflection
Date
February 07, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
May 2018
Title
CNN: This startup wants to help the planet with meatless burgers
Date
May 24, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
May 2012
Title
Cochrane Collaboration Representatives
Date
May 08, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
May 2012
Title
Colin Buckley, Executive Director of Investments, and Faith Rose, Investments Team, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
Date
May 30, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
December 2020
Title
Comstock’s Magazine: Promise for New Proteins
Date
December 14, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2024
Title
Cool Things Our GHW Grantees Have Done in 2023
Date
April 30, 2024
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
April 2020
March 2024
Title
Current Affairs: Why Factory Farming is a Moral Atrocity
Date
March 04, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Daniel Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, New York University School of Law
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
December 2012
Title
Dario Amodei, Paul Christiano, Nick Conley, David Dalrymple, Yoni Donner, Kristen Fortney, Jacob Steinhardt and Jade Q Wang
Date
December 02, 2012
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Darren Kew, Associate Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston
Date
September 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
June 2016
Title
David Alpert, Founder and Board President; Sarah Guidi, Managing Director; and David Whitehead, Housing Program Organizer, Greater Greater Washington
Date
June 07, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
November 2016
Title
David Alpert, Founder and Board President; Sarah Guidi, Managing Director; and David Whitehead, Housing Program Organizer, Greater Greater Washington
Date
November 16, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
September 2017
Title
David Alpert, Founder and President, and Sarah Guidi, Managing Director, Greater Greater Washington
Date
September 20, 2017
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
April 2018
Title
David Alpert, Founder and President, and Sarah Guidi, Managing Director, Greater Greater Washington
Date
April 06, 2018
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
October 2015
Title
David Alpert, Founder, Greater Greater Washington
Date
October 05, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
December 2015
March 2017
Title
David Alpert, President, and Sarah Guidi, Managing Director, Greater Greater Washington
Date
March 22, 2017
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
May 2014
Title
David Byer, Senior Corporate Liaison, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Date
May 23, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
June 2012
Title
David Carr, Strategic Planning and Policy Unit, Wellcome Trust
Date
June 19, 2012
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
May 2016
Title
David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy, New York University
Date
May 20, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
August 2016