Hard to overstate the importance of this new tool. In terms of potential lives saved, there are a few like it each decade. It will protect millions of kids. Many people involved to get here, but today I am particularly proud to work with Katharine Collins, who invented R21!

"The cries of the Palestinian and Israeli children sound no different to me. What I don't understand is why the cries of Palestinians sound different to you all." -Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib CeasefireToday.com

Yesterday, WHO announced the prequalification of the R21, Matrix-M, malaria vaccine. It is the second malaria vaccine to be prequalified after RTS,S. This is extremely welcome news and a job well done by WHO for working ahead of the PQ standard schedule. who.int/news/item/21-1…

Big new post! 7 things you didn't know about life expectancy • We live longer than our life expectancy implies • Lifespan inequality has been falling • Child mortality makes smaller contributions to gains in life expectancy and more: scientificdiscovery.dev/p/19-seven-thi…

The Norwegian Foreign Affairs minister urges countries to continue funding UNRWA and says that suspending UNRWA funding amounts to collective punishment.

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It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, "What are you doing?" That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

It's not in any sense surprising, but at some level of abstraction you still have to marvel at the political elite of this country being outraged at students protesting an ongoing massacre but indifferent to, if not enthusiastically supportive of, the massacre itself.

Even more intense than Columbia by all accounts. This is citywide repression.

I think the moral content of a protest matters, I think it’s the single most important thing actually, and the elaborate media pseudo debates about tactics, electoral impact etc—where we discuss everything but the moral content—is because the righteousness of the cause is obvious

UK in Kenya 🇬🇧🇰🇪 Neil Wigan Hey UK high commission... are you really spending >£1bn on an office refurb? This must be a mistake no? bidstats.uk/tenders/2023/W… Lauren Gilbert

Very cool post by Adam Salisbury about a topic I've long worried about: are life-saving interventions saving the same kids over and over again? Short answer: probably not! A couple of nice intuitive reasons why as well as all the detail you'd expect from a GiveWell post.

A documentary about the R21 malaria vaccine that I invented ~13 years ago while working in Oxford is airing tonight, 8pm BBC2! After I left Oxford ~10 years ago, many wonderful people continued to develop the vaccine, and as of last week the vaccine is now finally being rolled

One of Open Philanthropy’s goals is to collaborate more often with other funders. Today, we’re excited to announce our biggest collaboration to date – the Lead Exposure Action Fund (LEAF). Lead exposure causes an estimated 1.5 million deaths each year. But until recently, total

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