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Research & Updates
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July 2016
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Becca Heller, Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Date
July 06, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
May 2016
Title
Becca Heller, Director, International Refugee Assistance Project
Date
May 09, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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
March 2014
Title
Bentley Allan, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Date
March 26, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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
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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
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Other Areas
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January 2014
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 2014
Title
Brian Ketternring, Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
October 16, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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October 2012
Title
Brian Nosek, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
Date
October 09, 2012
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2014
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Brian Steensland, Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University – Indianapolis
Date
October 24, 2014
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Other Areas
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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
November 2014
Title
Bruce Lowry, Director of Policy and Communications, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Date
November 05, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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
April 2014
Title
Bryant Walker Smith, Fellow, the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS); Fellow, the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School; Lecturer, Stanford Law School
Date
April 11, 2014
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Other Areas
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July 2015
Title
Building Capacity to Promote Freer Global Mobility, a CGD-Open Philanthropy Project Workshop
Date
July 07, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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
October 2014
Title
Carl Robichaud, Program Officer, International Peace and Security Program, the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Date
October 14, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Carl Shulman, Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute
Date
September 25, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
August 2016
Title
Carl Shulman, Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute
Date
August 16, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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
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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
April 2013
September 2014
August 2015
Title
Change in our Fundraising Policy for the Open Philanthropy Project
Date
August 17, 2015
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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
March 2015
August 2014
Title
Chris Phoenix, Co-Founder and Director of Research, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Date
August 20, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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
December 2015
Title
Chronicle of Philanthropy: Wringing the Most Good Out of a Facebook Fortune
Date
December 01, 2015
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Content Type
October 2022
Title
Civil Conflict Reduction
Date
October 06, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
May 2013
December 2013
Title
Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University and the University of Melbourne
Date
December 16, 2013
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Other Areas
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February 2023
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CNBC: Facebook co-founder Moskovitz funds research into cooling the Earth with sunlight reflection
Date
February 07, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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May 2018
Title
CNN: This startup wants to help the planet with meatless burgers
Date
May 24, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2019
April 2015
Title
Co-funding Partnership with Kaitlyn Trigger and Mike Krieger
Date
April 23, 2015
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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
August 2015
Title
Coming Down to Earth: What if a Big Geomagnetic Storm Does Hit?
Date
August 21, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
December 2020
Title
Comstock’s Magazine: Promise for New Proteins
Date
December 14, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
June 2016
Title
Concrete Problems in AI Safety
Date
June 22, 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2021
Title
Could Advanced AI Drive Explosive Economic Growth?
Date
June 25, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
July 2015
April 2020
May 2014
December 2014
Title
D. James Greiner, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Date
December 12, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
May 2013
March 2014
Title
Daniel Fagnant, Ph.D. candidate in Transportation Engineering, UT Austin; Assistant Professor at University of Utah (Anticipated August 2014)
Date
March 18, 2014
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Other Areas
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July 2015
Title
Daniel Greene, Researcher, Project for Education Research That Scales and Lytics Lab, Stanford University
Date
July 28, 2015
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Other Areas
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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
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
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
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
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
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
November 2016
Title
David Bennion, Executive Director, Free Migration Project
Date
November 07, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
December 2015
Title
David Bier, Director of Immigration Policy, The Niskanen Center
Date
December 14, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
June 2015
Title
David Bier, Immigration Policy Analyst, Niskanen Center
Date
June 05, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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
Title
David Coman-Hidy, Executive Director; Aaron Ross, Director of Campaigns; and Michelle Kucerak, Director of Development, The Humane League
Date
August 22, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2017
Title
David Coman-Hidy, President; Michelle Kucerak, Vice President, Development; and Aaron Ross, Vice President, Policy & Strategy, The Humane League
Date
February 28, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
October 2014
Title
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University
Date
October 17, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
September 2017
Title
David Goldberg, Founder and Global CEO, Founders Pledge
Date
September 22, 2017
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Content Type
May 2015
Title
David Holtzman, Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Prof. and Chairman of Neurology; Prof. of Developmental Biology; and Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Date
May 01, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2013
Title
David Jay, Chief Executive Officer, Journal Lab
Date
March 14, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
August 2014
Title
David Jernigan, Director, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) and Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Date
August 06, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
August 2014
Title
David Kamin, Assistant Professor of Law, New York University
Date
August 01, 2014
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Other Areas
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July 2014
Title
David Kennedy, Director, Center for Crime Prevention and Control, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
February 2014
Title
David L. Heymann, MD, Chair of the Health Protection Agency, UK
Date
February 17, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Content Type
March 2013
Title
David Madigan, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Date
March 07, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
February 2014
Title
David Relman, Professor of Medicine and Co-Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Date
February 12, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Content Type
September 2014
Title
David Roodman’s Draft Writeup on Immigration and Current Residents’ Wages
Date
September 03, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
February 2015
Title
David Russell, William Kaplan Professor of Infection Biology, Cornell University College of Veterinary Science
Date
February 03, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
May 2014
Title
David Schleicher, Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University
Date
May 15, 2014
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
August 2012
Title
David Tovey, Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Collaboration
Date
August 14, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
May 2015
Title
David Udell, Executive Director, National Center for Access to Justice, and Visiting Professor from Practice, Cardozo Law School
Date
May 25, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Date
August 08, 2013
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
January 2015
Title
December 2014 Update on IOM Haiti Grant
Date
January 01, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
February 2016
Title
December 2015 Update on IOM Haiti Grant
Date
February 01, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
October 2013
March 2015