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Research & Updates
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September 2016
Title
Maybe the Murder Rate Levelled Off This Year?
Date
September 26, 2016
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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September 2017
February 2015
Title
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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June 2012
April 2014
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Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)
Date
April 23, 2014
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Content Type
June 2013
August 2014
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Micah Manary, MD/PhD Student, University of California, San Diego and scientific advisor to GiveWell
Date
August 29, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2014
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
April 21, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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November 2013
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 13, 2013
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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January 2015
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
January 21, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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July 2012
Title
Michael Ditmore, Executive Director, Novim
Date
July 01, 2012
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Other Areas
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May 2012
Title
Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist, Climate Institute
Date
May 18, 2012
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Other Areas
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July 2013
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Michael Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota
Date
July 30, 2013
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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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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April 2015
Title
Michael Webb, PhD Candidate in Economics, Stanford University and Research Associate, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Date
April 03, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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July 2014
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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
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June 2013
Title
Michelle Hutchinson, Executive Director, and Robert Wiblin, Research Director, Giving What We Can
Date
June 19, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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October 2012
Title
Mike Clarke, Co-Founder of the Evidence Aid project
Date
October 26, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
September 2017
Title
Mike Konczal, Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Date
September 19, 2017
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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January 2014
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Mike Konczal, Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Date
January 23, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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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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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 2016
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Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Lea Kenig, Deputy chief development officer, Carnegie
Date
February 05, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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June 2020
March 2015
Title
Morris Kleiner, Professor of Labor Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Date
March 23, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
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November 2013
Title
Nancy Birdsall, President, and Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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June 2013
Title
Nancy Birdsall, President, and Todd Moss, Vice President for Programs and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
June 05, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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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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October 2019
Title
Nature Biotechnology, First Rounders Podcast: Pardis Sabeti
Date
October 02, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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November 2020
Title
Nature: Coronavirus Testing Finally Gathers Speed
Date
November 05, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2017
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Nature: Facebook billionaire pours funds into high-risk research
Date
December 20, 2017
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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February 2019
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Nature: Faster, better, cheaper: the rise of CRISPR in disease detection
Date
February 19, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2019
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Nature: First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
Date
September 05, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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June 2018
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Nature: Migrants and refugees are good for economies
Date
June 21, 2018
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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January 2017
Title
Nature: The new face of US science
Date
January 05, 2017
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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June 2013
June 2013
Title
Neil Ruiz, Senior Policy Analyst and Associate Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
Date
June 28, 2013
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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February 2024
Title
New Grantmaking Program: Forecasting
Date
February 19, 2024
Focus Area
Forecasting
Content Type
November 2023
Title
New Grantmaking Program: Global Public Health Policy
Date
November 22, 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
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February 2022
Title
New Grantmaking Program: Supporting the Effective Altruism Community around Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
February 22, 2022
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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February 2018
December 2023
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New Positions on our Cause Prioritization Team (Global Health and Wellbeing)
Date
December 21, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2017
April 2017
Title
New Report on Early Field Growth
Date
April 26, 2017
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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September 2020
Title
New Report on How Much Computational Power It Takes to Match the Human Brain
Date
September 08, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2017
Title
New Report on the Welfare Differences Between Cage and Cage-Free Housing
Date
September 15, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
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New Roles in Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
June 29, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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September 2023
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New Roles on Our Global Catastrophic Risks Team
Date
September 26, 2023
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2022
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New Shallow Investigations: Telecommunications and Civil Conflict Reduction
Date
July 25, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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May 2020
Title
New Staff in Communications, Grants, Operations, Programs, and Research (2020)
Date
May 08, 2020
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April 2019
June 2021
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New Staff in Operations, Programs, and Research (2021)
Date
June 03, 2021
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Content Type
July 2016
December 2018
May 2015
Title
Nick Bostrom, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Date
May 04, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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February 2017
Title
Nick Cooney, Executive Vice President, Mercy for Animals
Date
February 10, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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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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October 2020
Title
Nikkei Asia: Thai Food Producers Shift Focus to Animal Welfare
Date
October 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2016
Title
Norman Volk, Former Chair, The John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees
Date
April 01, 2016
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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February 2015
Title
Notes from November Convening on Our Policy Priorities
Date
February 19, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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May 2018
Title
NPR: Can A Cocktail Of Vitamins And Steroids Cure A Major Killer In Hospitals?
Date
May 11, 2018
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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November 2021
Title
NPR: On #GivingTuesday, how to get the most bang for your buck
Date
November 30, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2019
Title
NPR: Why This Charity Isn’t Afraid To Say It Failed
Date
January 07, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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September 2015
Title
Nuclear Weapons Policy
Date
September 13, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
June 2012
October 2017
Title
October 2017 Update on Protect the People Grant
Date
October 01, 2017
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
August 2014
Title
Open Philanthropy Project (formerly GiveWell Labs)
Date
August 20, 2014
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Content Type
September 2015
March 2015
Title
Open Philanthropy Project Update: Global Catastrophic Risks
Date
March 11, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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March 2015
Title
Open Philanthropy Project Update: U.S. Policy
Date
March 10, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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March 2015
Title
Open Philanthropy Project: Progress in 2014 and Plans for 2015
Date
March 12, 2015
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May 2022
June 2021
February 2022
December 2017
Title
Our ‘Second Chance’ Program for NIH Transformative Research Applicants
Date
December 05, 2017
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2020
Title
Our AI Governance Grantmaking So Far
Date
December 08, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
January 2021
November 2021
Title
Our Criminal Justice Reform Program Is Now an Independent Organization: Just Impact
Date
November 16, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
February 2016
July 2013
Title
Our Landscape of the Open Science Community
Date
July 11, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2023
Title
Our Planned Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommendations for the Next Few Years
Date
October 05, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2016
March 2017
March 2018
April 2019
May 2020
April 2021
May 2022
May 2023
March 2024
May 2015
Title
Our Updated Agenda for Science Philanthropy
Date
May 06, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
May 2014
Title
Our Writeup on Criminal Justice Reform
Date
May 06, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
July 2013
Title
Owen Barder, Senior Fellow and Director for Europe, Center for Global Development
Date
July 24, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2014
Title
Partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
July 24, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
March 2014
Title
Patrick Lucey, Policy Program Associate, and Danielle Kehl, Policy Analyst, New America Foundation
Date
March 19, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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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
March 2012
Title
Paul Brest, President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Date
March 01, 2012
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
May 2015
Title
Paul Christiano, PhD Student, Theory of Computing Group, University of California at Berkeley
Date
May 02, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
August 2012
Title
Paul Garner, Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Review Group
Date
August 13, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
April 2014