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Research & Updates
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August 2016
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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
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August 2016
Title
Carl Shulman, Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute
Date
August 16, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2016
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Behavioral Treatments for Insomnia
Date
August 01, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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August 2016
Title
Nick Cooney, Executive Vice President, Mercy for Animals
Date
August 01, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2016
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Paul Shapiro, Vice President, Farm Animal Protection, The Humane Society of the United States
Date
July 20, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2016
Title
Dr. Gary Drescher, Artificial intelligence researcher, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date
July 18, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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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July 2016
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Professor Aaron Sloman, Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, University of Birmingham
Date
July 03, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2016
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Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, and Kathy Smith, Director, Institutional Advancement, Center for Global Development
Date
June 22, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
June 2016
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center for Global Development
Date
June 15, 2016
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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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
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May 2016
Title
David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy, New York University
Date
May 20, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2016
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Professor Shirley Tilghman, Co-Founder, Rescuing Biomedical Research, and President Emerita/Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Date
May 19, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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May 2016
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Dr. João Breda, Programme Manager, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
Date
May 17, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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May 2016
Title
Science Magazine: Grassroots Future of Research group makes it official
Date
May 04, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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April 2016
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Eric Lindblom, O’Neill Institute; Kristina DeMain and John Walsh, Washington Office on Latin America; and Graham Boyd, New Approach PAC
Date
April 28, 2016
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Other Areas
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April 2016
April 2016
March 2016
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Initial Grants to Support Corporate Cage-free Reforms
Date
March 31, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2016
March 2016
February 2016
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Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Lea Kenig, Deputy chief development officer, Carnegie
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February 05, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2016
Title
December 2015 Update on IOM Haiti Grant
Date
February 01, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2016
Title
Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
January 25, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2016
Title
Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Date
January 21, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2016
Title
Update on Co-Funding Grant to Population Services International Myanmar – January 2016
Date
January 12, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2016
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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
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December 2015
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Thoughts on 3-bromopyruvate as a Potential Cancer Treatment by Chris Somerville, Scientific Advisor, Open Philanthropy Project and Philomathia Professor of Alternative Energy and EBI Director, University of California, Berkeley
Date
December 29, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2015
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Valerie Mizrahi, Director, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
Date
December 16, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2015
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Dr. Bavesh Kana, Senior Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
Date
December 16, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2015
December 2015
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Dr. Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development and Kathy Smith, Director, Institutional Advancement, Center for Global Development
Date
December 15, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2015
Title
Animal Product Alternatives
Date
December 13, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2015
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Informal Writeup on DRACOs as Potential Antiviral Treatment
Date
December 10, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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November 2015
Title
Robert Heimer, Professor of Epidemiology and of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine
Date
November 16, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2015
Title
Steve Oh, Phd, Principal Scientist, Bioprocessing Technology Institute
Date
October 07, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2015
Title
David Alpert, Founder, Greater Greater Washington
Date
October 05, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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September 2015
Title
Differential Technological Development: Some Early Thinking
Date
September 30, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2015
Title
Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard
Date
September 11, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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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 2015
Title
Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Date
July 08, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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June 2015
Title
Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
June 25, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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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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June 2015
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Diana Shineman, Director for Scientific Affairs, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation
Date
June 08, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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May 2015
May 2015
Title
Our Updated Agenda for Science Philanthropy
Date
May 06, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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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
April 2015
Title
Mark Wilson, CEO; David Tovey, Editor in Chief; Kathelene Weiss, Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser
Date
April 30, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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 2015
Title
A Scientist with 18 Years Experience in the Tissue Engineering Industry
Date
April 23, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2015
Title
Science Policy and Infrastructure
Date
April 21, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
April 2015
Title
Advocacy for Improved or Increased U.S. Foreign Aid
Date
April 20, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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April 2015
Title
Breakthrough Fundamental Science
Date
April 14, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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April 2015
Title
Translational Science and the “Valley of Death”
Date
April 09, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2015
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Investigating Neglected Goals in Scientific Research
Date
March 26, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2015
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Mark Post, Professor of Vascular Physiology and Chair of Physiology, Maastricht University
Date
March 24, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2015
March 2015
Title
Dena Dubal, Assistant Professor of Neurology and David Coulter Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease at the University of California, San Francisco
Date
March 10, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2015
March 2015
Title
Open Philanthropy Project Update: U.S. Policy
Date
March 10, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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
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March 2015
Title
SDI Update – March 2015
Date
March 01, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2015
Title
The Path to Biomedical Progress
Date
February 27, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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February 2015
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Melanie Smith, PhD in biophysics, MD Candidate, University of California, San Francisco; Scientific Advisor, Open Philanthropy Project
Date
February 17, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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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
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
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January 2015
Title
December 2014 Update on IOM Haiti Grant
Date
January 01, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
November 2014
Title
Faith Rose, Education Sector Team Manager, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
Date
November 04, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Brian Steensland, Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University – Indianapolis
Date
October 24, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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October 2014
Title
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University
Date
October 17, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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October 2014
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Lane Kenworthy, Professor of Sociology and Yankelovich Chair in Social Thought, University of California at San Diego
Date
October 08, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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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
September 2014
Title
Aid to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Date
September 01, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
August 2014
Title
Micah Manary, MD/PhD Student, University of California, San Diego and scientific advisor to GiveWell
Date
August 29, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
August 2014
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
Gayle Martin, Senior Economist, World Bank; Program Leader, Service Delivery Indicators (SDI)
Date
July 30, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2014
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Phil Cook, ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Sociology, Duke University
Date
July 29, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2014
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Jacob Hacker, Director, Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Stanley B. Resor Professor Political Science, Yale University
Date
July 25, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2014
Title
Anna Bershteyn, Institute for Disease Modeling
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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
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June 2014
Title
Virginia Clarke, Executive Director, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders
Date
June 04, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
May 2014
Title
Potential U.S. Policy Focus Areas
Date
May 29, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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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
May 2014
Title
Narrowing down U.S. Policy Areas
Date
May 22, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
May 2014
Title
Jack Norris, Executive Director, Vegan Outreach
Date
May 20, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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
May 2014
Title
Robert Martin, Program Director, Food System Policy Program, John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Date
May 14, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
May 2014
May 2014
Title
Patty Lovera, Assistant Director, Food & Water Watch and Doug Lakey, Director of Development, Food & Water Watch
Date
May 01, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Tom Hart, U.S. Executive Director, The ONE Campaign
Date
April 24, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Date
April 22, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Ben Goldsmith, Executive Director, Farm Forward
Date
April 22, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2014
April 2014
Title
Dr. Neal Lane, – Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and Malcolm Gillis University Professor , Rice University,
Date
April 16, 2014
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2014
Title
Gabriel Metcalf, Executive Director, SPUR
Date
March 31, 2014
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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
March 2014
Title
Alan D. Viard, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Date
March 25, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
March 2014