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Research & Updates
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April 2013
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“Dylan Matthews, Staff Reporter, Wonkblog at the Washington Post”
Date
April 10, 2013
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Other Areas
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June 2023
Title
(Request for Information) Evaluation of Germicidal Far-UVC: Safety, Efficacy, Technology, and Adoption
Date
June 09, 2023
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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December 2019
Title
10 Years of Progress for Farm Animals
Date
December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2023
Title
12 tentative ideas for US AI policy
Date
April 17, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2017
December 2018
Title
2018 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 12, 2018
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2019
Title
2019 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2020
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2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 11, 2020
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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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
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
Date
May 12, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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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
Date
July 12, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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October 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
Date
October 05, 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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August 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
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August 26, 2021
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August 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they’re no smarter than humans, and his four-part playbook for AI risk
Date
August 01, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
Date
August 19, 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
Date
May 19, 2023
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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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
South Asian Air Quality
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
Date
May 05, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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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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May 2023
Title
A Big Supreme Court Win for Farm Animals
Date
May 12, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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
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June 2015
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A Conversation with Members of the Effective Altruists of Berkeley at UC Berkeley – a Student Group –
Date
June 19, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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June 2015
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A conversation with staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development
Date
June 23, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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November 2014
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A Conversation with Staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development
Date
November 14, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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February 2014
Title
A Conversation with the Gates Foundation about Malaria Funding and Eradication
Date
February 10, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2015
Title
A Scientist with 18 Years Experience in the Tissue Engineering Industry
Date
April 23, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2017
Title
A Software Agent Illustrating Some Features of an Illusionist Account of Consciousness
Date
October 01, 2017
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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October 2013
Title
Aaron Goldzimer, Student, Yale Law School
Date
October 19, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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February 2012
February 2015
August 2013
Title
Adam Gelb, Director, Public Safety Performance Project and Nicole Surber, Director, Philanthropic Partnerships, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
August 23, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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August 2014
Title
Adam Marblestone, Director of Scientific Architecting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Synthetic Neurobiology Group (scientific advisor to GiveWell)
Date
August 27, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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April 2016
August 2013
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Adam Sheingate, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Date
August 02, 2013
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2013
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Adele Morris, Policy Director for the Brookings Climate and Energy Economics Project
Date
June 24, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2015
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Advocacy for Improved or Increased U.S. Foreign Aid
Date
April 20, 2015
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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May 2015
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Ady Barkan, Campaign Director of Fed Up, and Co-Director of Local Progress, the Center for Popular Democracy
Date
May 14, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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December 2015
Title
Ady Barkan, Campaign Director of the Fed Up campaign and Co-Director of Local Progress, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
December 08, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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July 2016
Title
Ady Barkan, Campaign Director, and Shawn Sebastian, Field Director, Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
July 14, 2016
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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August 2017
Title
Ady Barkan, Campaign Director, Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
August 10, 2017
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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February 2016
Title
Ady Barkan, Director of Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
February 12, 2016
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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September 2017
Title
Aftereffects: In the U.S., Evidence Says Doing More Time Typically Leads to More Crime After
Date
September 25, 2017
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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September 2014
Title
Aid to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Date
September 01, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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March 2014
Title
Alan D. Viard, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Date
March 25, 2014
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Other Areas
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October 2016
Title
Alan Durning, Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
October 25, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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July 2016
Title
Alan Durning, Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
July 05, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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August 2015
Title
Alan Durning, Founder and Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
August 18, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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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
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July 2023
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Alexander Berger is now sole CEO of Open Philanthropy
Date
July 27, 2023
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Content Type
July 2013
Title
Allan Coukell, Brian Hill, and Nicole Mahoney, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
July 17, 2013
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Scientific Research
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June 2013
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Allan Steinhardt, Former Program Manager and Chief Scientist, DARPA
Date
June 13, 2013
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Other Areas
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June 2012
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Allison Phillips and Sir Richard Feachem, UCSF
Date
June 01, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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March 2015
Title
Allison Snow, Professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University
Date
March 17, 2015
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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May 2013
Title
Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
May 01, 2013
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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November 2017
Title
Amanda Glassman, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 29, 2017
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2013
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Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, and Kate McQueston, Program Coordinator
Date
April 10, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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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
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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
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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
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February 2016
Title
America’s Recently Heralded Urban “Crime Wave” May Already Have Peaked
Date
February 02, 2016
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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February 2014
Title
Amy Smithson, Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Date
February 04, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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July 2021
March 2018
Title
An Update to How We’re Thinking About Grant Check-Ins
Date
March 09, 2018
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Content Type
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
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November 2013
Title
Andy Ko, Campaign Manager, Campaign for a New Drug Policy
Date
November 20, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
September 2016
Title
Andy Parker, Dr. Steven Hamburg, Cassandra Ely, and Danielle Putnam, Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative and Environmental Defense Fund
Date
September 02, 2016
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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May 2013
Title
Andy Parker, Research Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard University
Date
May 20, 2013
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Other Areas
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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
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September 2013
Title
Angela Hawken, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
Date
September 16, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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
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July 2014
Title
Anna Bershteyn, Institute for Disease Modeling
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2012
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Anna Taylor, Senior Nutrition Adviser, Department for International Development
Date
July 30, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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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
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November 2016
Title
Anne Malleau, Executive Director, Global Animal Partnership
Date
November 08, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2011
January 2023
Title
Announcing the awardees for our $150M Regranting Challenge
Date
January 12, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2022
March 2023
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Announcing the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
Date
March 10, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2023
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Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
Date
September 29, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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February 2016
May 2013
Title
Anthropogenic Climate Change
Date
May 10, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
November 2013
April 2017
Title
April 2017 Update on Grant to the Future of Life Institute for Artificial Intelligence RFP
Date
April 01, 2017
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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July 2013
Title
Armond Cohen, Co-Founder and Executive Director
Date
July 23, 2013
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Other Areas
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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
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Scientific Research
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November 2013
Title
Attendance of Selective Colleges amongst High-Performing, Low-Income Students
Date
November 14, 2013
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Other Areas
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June 2013
Title
Audrey Singer, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
Date
June 25, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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May 2014
May 2015
Title
Barak Richman, Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law and Professor of Business Administration, Duke University School of Law
Date
May 22, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
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March 2020
Title
Barron’s Penta: How Philanthropists are Tackling COVID-19
Date
March 18, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2022
Title
BBC: What is longtermism?
Date
September 01, 2022
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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January 2015
Title
Beau Kilmer, Codirector, RAND Drug Policy Research Center and Professor, Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School
Date
January 27, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
October 2017
Title
Becca Heller, Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Date
October 05, 2017
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
March 2018