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Research & Updates
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November 2013
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Attendance of Selective Colleges amongst High-Performing, Low-Income Students
Date
November 14, 2013
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Other Areas
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November 2013
Title
Pew Charitable Trusts’ Government Performance Project
Date
November 14, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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November 2013
November 2013
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Andy Ko, Campaign Manager, Campaign for a New Drug Policy
Date
November 20, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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November 2013
Title
Dr. Stefano Bertozzi, Dean and Professor of Health Policy & Management, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Date
November 20, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2013
Title
How to Approach Policy-Oriented Philanthropy
Date
November 21, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
November 2013
November 2013
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Steve Riskin, Senior Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace
Date
November 26, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2013
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Larry Kramer, President and Daniel Stid, Senior Fellow
Date
December 06, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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December 2013
December 2013
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Chip Mellor, President and General Counsel, Institute for Justice
Date
December 12, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2013
Title
Vikram Patel, Joint Director, Centre for Global Mental Health
Date
December 12, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2013
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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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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
Focus Area
Other Areas
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December 2013
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Scientific Research Funding
Date
December 26, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2014
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Exploring Life Sciences Funding
Date
January 07, 2014
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2014
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Richard Sullivan, MD, PhD, Professor of Cancer Policy & Global Health at Kings College London, Director of the Kings Institute of Cancer Policy
Date
January 08, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2014
Title
Rob Reich, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Board member, GiveWell
Date
January 09, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2014
Title
Increasing the Supply of Organs for Transplantation in the U.S.
Date
January 10, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2014
January 2014
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Returns to Life Sciences Funding
Date
January 15, 2014
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2014
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Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Date
January 15, 2014
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Other Areas
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January 2014
Title
Jay Neal, Executive Director of Georgia’s Office of Transition, Support and Re-entry; former Representative in Georgia State House of Representatives
Date
January 15, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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January 2014
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Grant Tennille, Executive Director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe
Date
January 17, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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January 2014
Title
Mike Konczal, Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Date
January 23, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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January 2014
Title
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
Date
January 23, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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January 2014
Title
Dr. Bruce Alberts, Professor of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco; former President, National Academy of Sciences
Date
January 29, 2014
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2014
Title
Marc Lipsitch, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard University School of Public Health
Date
January 29, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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February 2014
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Improving Disaster Shelters to Increase the Chances of Recovery from a Global Catastrophe
Date
February 01, 2014
Focus Area
Longtermism
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February 2014
February 2014
Title
Improving Funding Allocation within HIV/AIDS Programs in Developing Countries
Date
February 01, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2014
Title
Dr. Dermot Maher, International Portfolio Manager, The Wellcome Trust
Date
February 03, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2014
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Joseph Gagnon, Senior Fellow; former Associate Director at the Division of International Finance and Senior Economist, US Federal Reserve Board
Date
February 04, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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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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February 2014
Title
Dena Jones, Farm Animal Program Manager, Animal Welfare Institute
Date
February 06, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2014
Title
Richard Sullivan, MD, PhD, Professor of Cancer Policy & Global Health at Kings College London, Director of the Kings Institute of Cancer Policy
Date
February 06, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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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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February 2014
Title
Philip Tetlock, Professor of Psychology and Management, University of Pennsylvania; Co-leader of the Good Judgment Project
Date
February 12, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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February 2014
Title
George Poste, Chief Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative and Professor of Health Innovation at Arizona State University
Date
February 12, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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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
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February 2014
Title
David L. Heymann, MD, Chair of the Health Protection Agency, UK
Date
February 17, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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February 2014
Title
Tom Mitchell, School of Computer Science, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Date
February 19, 2014
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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February 2014
Title
Leah Garces, USA Director, Compassion in World Farming
Date
February 26, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2014
Title
Josh Bivens, Research and Policy Director, Economic Policy Institute
Date
February 26, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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February 2014
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Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
February 27, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2014
Title
Jeff Settleman, Michael Fischbach, Adam Marblestone
Date
February 28, 2014
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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February 2014
March 2014
Title
GiveWell Labs – Progress in 2013 and Plans for 2014
Date
March 05, 2014
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March 2014
Title
Stephen Smith, Infrastructure Reporter, Next City; Contributor, Market Urbanism
Date
March 13, 2014
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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March 2014
Title
Dr. Arthur Bienenstock, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Date
March 17, 2014
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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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
Focus Area
Other Areas
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March 2014
Title
Patrick Lucey, Policy Program Associate, and Danielle Kehl, Policy Analyst, New America Foundation
Date
March 19, 2014
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Other Areas
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March 2014
Title
Richard England, Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Professor of Economics and Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
Date
March 22, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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March 2014
Title
The First Case Study from Our History of Philanthropy Project
Date
March 25, 2014
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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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March 2014
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Bentley Allan, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Date
March 26, 2014
Focus Area
Longtermism
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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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March 2014
Title
Gabriel Metcalf, Executive Director, SPUR
Date
March 31, 2014
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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April 2014
Title
Professor Nigel Lightfoot CBE, Executive Director of CORDS
Date
April 01, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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April 2014
Title
Kathleen Newland, Co-Founder, Migration Policy Institute
Date
April 02, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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April 2014
Title
Robert Greenstein, President, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
April 03, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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April 2014
Title
Robert Bloomfield, Professor of Management and Accounting, Cornell University
Date
April 04, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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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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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
April 2014
Title
Laurence Ball, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Date
April 17, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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April 2014
April 2014
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
April 21, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Ben Goldsmith, Executive Director, Farm Forward
Date
April 22, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2014
Title
Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Date
April 22, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2014
Title
Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)
Date
April 23, 2014
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Content Type
April 2014
Title
Dr. Martin Ruhs, Associate Professor of Political Economy and Senior Researcher, Oxford University
Date
April 23, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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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
Tom Dietterich, Distinguished Professor and Director of Intelligent Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University
Date
April 28, 2014
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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April 2014
Title
Finding Giving Opportunities in Malaria Control/Elimination
Date
April 30, 2014
Focus Area
Content Type
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
May 2014
Title
Our Writeup on Criminal Justice Reform
Date
May 06, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
May 2014
May 2014
Title
Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA
Date
May 12, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
May 2014
May 2014
Title
Macroeconomic Policy
Date
May 12, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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May 2014
May 2014
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
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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
Jack Norris, Executive Director, Vegan Outreach
Date
May 20, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2014
Title
Narrowing down U.S. Policy Areas
Date
May 22, 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
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May 2014
Title
Potential U.S. Policy Focus Areas
Date
May 29, 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
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June 2014
Title
Potential Global Catastrophic Risk Focus Areas
Date
June 26, 2014
Focus Area
Longtermism
Content Type
July 2014
July 2014
Title
Michael Wishnie, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law and Deputy Dean for Experiential Education, Yale Law School
Date
July 13, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Peter Wagner, Executive Director, Prison Policy Initiative
Date
July 14, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Tracy Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor, Yale Law School
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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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July 2014
Title
Anna Bershteyn, Institute for Disease Modeling
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
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
July 2014
Title
Partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
July 24, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
July 2014
Title
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