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Research & Updates
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September 2011
September 2011
September 2011
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GiveWell Labs: Plans for Our Process and Transparency
Date
September 20, 2011
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October 2011
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GiveWell Labs: Our Criteria for Giving Opportunities
Date
October 11, 2011
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January 2012
February 2012
February 2012
February 2012
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GiveWell’s Plan for 2012: Specifics of Research
Date
February 22, 2012
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March 2012
Title
Philanthropy’s Success Stories
Date
March 01, 2012
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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March 2012
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Paul Brest, President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Date
March 01, 2012
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Other Areas
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April 2012
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John Baez, Professor of Mathematics and Physics, University of California
Date
April 18, 2012
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Other Areas
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April 2012
Title
Violaine Mitchell, Interim Director, Matt Hanson, Program Officer, Jenna Brereton, Consultant, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Date
April 27, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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May 2012
May 2012
May 2012
Title
Cochrane Collaboration Representatives
Date
May 08, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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May 2012
May 2012
Title
Matt Bannick, Paula Goldman, Tie Kim, Bill Barmeier, Will Fitzpatrick, and Todor Tashev, Omidyar Network
Date
May 16, 2012
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Other Areas
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May 2012
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Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist, Climate Institute
Date
May 18, 2012
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Other Areas
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May 2012
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Philip Rasch, Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Date
May 22, 2012
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Other Areas
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May 2012
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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
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May 2012
Title
Steven Goodman, Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Medicine at Stanford University
Date
May 31, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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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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June 2012
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Jane Long, Associate Director at Large, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Date
June 01, 2012
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Other Areas
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June 2012
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Donald Green, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Date
June 08, 2012
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Other Areas
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June 2012
June 2012
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John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine and of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
Date
June 11, 2012
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Other Areas
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June 2012
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Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard University
Date
June 18, 2012
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Scientific Research
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June 2012
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David Carr, Strategic Planning and Policy Unit, Wellcome Trust
Date
June 19, 2012
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Scientific Research
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June 2012
June 2012
July 2012
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Michael Ditmore, Executive Director, Novim
Date
July 01, 2012
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Other Areas
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July 2012
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Kay Dickersin, Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Eyes and Vision Review Group, U.S. Satellite
Date
July 09, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2012
Title
Department for International Development
Date
July 09, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2012
Title
William Easterly, Professor of Economics, New York University
Date
July 13, 2012
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Other Areas
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July 2012
Title
Greg Widmyer, Senior Program Officer, and Jennifer Alcorn, Program Officer, Global Policy and Advocacy, Gates Foundation
Date
July 13, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2012
Title
Some History Behind Our Shifting Approach to Research
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July 20, 2012
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July 2012
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Anna Taylor, Senior Nutrition Adviser, Department for International Development
Date
July 30, 2012
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Global Health & Development
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July 2012
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Peter Attia, Co-Founder, Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI)
Date
July 31, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2012
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Paul Garner, Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Review Group
Date
August 13, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2012
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David Tovey, Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Collaboration
Date
August 14, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2012
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Jimmy Volmink, Director of the South African Cochrane Center
Date
August 17, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2012
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A Conversation about Vaccination: Violaine Mitchell, Interim Director, Country Immunization Programs
Date
August 20, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2012
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Sue Kinn, Team Leader and Research Manager at the Department for International Development (DFID)
Date
August 21, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2012
Title
Michael Rosenfeld, Professor, Stanford University
Date
August 21, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2012
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Sally Green, Co-Director of the Australasian Cochrane Center
Date
August 23, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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September 2012
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Martin Burton, Director of the UK Cochrane Center
Date
September 06, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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September 2012
Title
Kay Dickersin, Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Eyes and Vision Review Group, U.S. Satellite
Date
September 14, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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September 2012
Title
Sara Rogge and Alix Zwane, Senior Program Officers, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Gates Foundation, and Jenna Brereton, Consultant, Geneva Global
Date
September 18, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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September 2012
September 2012
Title
Rebecca Daou, Divisions Manager, Lions Club International Foundation
Date
September 25, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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September 2012
Title
US Cochrane Center (USCC) Gets Our First “Quick Grant” Recommendation
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September 27, 2012
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October 2012
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Brian Nosek, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
Date
October 09, 2012
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Scientific Research
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October 2012
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Jo Mulligan, Research and Evidence Division, Department for International Development
Date
October 10, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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October 2012
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Anil Soni, Former CEO of Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
Date
October 18, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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October 2012
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Mike Clarke, Co-Founder of the Evidence Aid project
Date
October 26, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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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 2012
Title
Linda Frey, Program Officer, Hewlett Foundation
Date
November 19, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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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
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Scientific Research
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January 2013
Title
Richard Mugisha, Program Officer/Country Manager, Uganda, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa
Date
January 29, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2013
Title
Kay Dickersin, Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center
Date
February 19, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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February 2013
February 2013
Title
Ivan Oransky, Co-founder, Retraction Watch
Date
February 21, 2013
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Scientific Research
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February 2013
Title
Elizabeth Iorns, Founder and CEO, Science Exchange
Date
February 26, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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February 2013
Title
Ken Witwer, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Date
February 28, 2013
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Scientific Research
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March 2013
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Ferric Fang, Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology, University of Washington
Date
March 01, 2013
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Scientific Research
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March 2013
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Mark Wilson, CEO, David Tovey, Editor-in-Chief, and Kay Dickersin, Director, The Cochrane Collaboration
Date
March 05, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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March 2013
Title
David Madigan, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Date
March 07, 2013
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Scientific Research
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March 2013
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Doug Altman, Professor of Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, and David Moher University Research Chair in Systematic Reviews, University of Ottawa
Date
March 08, 2013
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Scientific Research
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March 2013
March 2013
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Joshua Greenberg, Program Director, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Date
March 13, 2013
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Scientific Research
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March 2013
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Jason Priem, Co-Founder, Impact Story
Date
March 13, 2013
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Scientific Research
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March 2013
March 2013
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David Jay, Chief Executive Officer, Journal Lab
Date
March 14, 2013
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Scientific Research
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March 2013
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Jane Hunter, Managing Director, and Rebecca Lawrence, Publisher, Faculty of 1000
Date
March 15, 2013
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Scientific Research
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March 2013
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Stanley Young, Assistant Director of Bioinformatics, National Institute of Statistical Science
Date
March 18, 2013
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Scientific Research
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March 2013
Title
Tom Kenny, The NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC)
Date
March 22, 2013
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Scientific Research
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March 2013
Title
John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks
Date
March 25, 2013
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Scientific Research
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March 2013
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Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director, Public Library of Science
Date
March 26, 2013
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Scientific Research
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April 2013
Title
Seasonal Migration within Low-Income Countries
Date
April 01, 2013
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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April 2013
Title
Update on Co-Funding Grant to Population Services International Myanmar – April 2013
Date
April 01, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2013
Title
William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley Ltd.
Date
April 05, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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April 2013
Title
GiveWell’s History of Philanthropy/Philanthropy Journalism Project
Date
April 09, 2013
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April 2013
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Kaitlin Thaney, Manager, External Relationships, Digital Science
Date
April 10, 2013
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Scientific Research
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April 2013
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Gunther Eysenbach, Project Initiator, Webcite
Date
April 10, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2013
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“Dylan Matthews, Staff Reporter, Wonkblog at the Washington Post”
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April 10, 2013
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Other Areas
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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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April 2013
Title
Stephen Sparks, Professor, University of Bristol
Date
April 16, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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April 2013
Title
Kirsten Zickfeld, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
Date
April 17, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2013
April 2013
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Klaus Keller, Associate Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University
Date
April 18, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2013
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Elmar Kriegler, Senior Scientist, The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Date
April 18, 2013
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April 2013
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Sean Brocklebank, Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Date
April 18, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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April 2013
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Tom Steinbach and Other Staff, The Hewlett Foundation
Date
April 19, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2013
May 2013
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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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May 2013
Title
Bhaven Sampat, Associate Professor, Columbia University, Department of Health Policy and Management
Date
May 02, 2013
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Scientific Research
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May 2013
Title
Jonathan Cohn, Dana Goldstein, Chris Hughes, Richard Kim, Mike Konczal, Dylan Matthews, Dayo Olopade, Andrew Revkin, Reihan Salam and Michael Waldman
Date
May 02, 2013
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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May 2013
Title
Frank Baumgartner, Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date
May 03, 2013
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Other Areas
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May 2013
May 2013