$540k grant to IPA/UMich to conduct 5-year follow-up research on Raising the Village's poverty reduction program in Uganda, measuring whether initial promising consumption effects persist long-term and between harvest seasons givewell.org/research/grant…

From the standpoint of gov't efficiency, the recent cancellation of large federal RCTs in education & other areas is counterproductive. These trials are unique in providing highly-credible evidence about what works & what doesn't in gov't spending (a🧵with concrete examples). 1/3

I'm hearing from experts around the world about what the destruction of USAID is meaning: "a global health massacre," in the words of a doctor who has devoted her life to humanitarian work on the front lines. Millions of malnourished children left to starve. Pregnant women not

It's so painful to look at these numbers and to even try to feel their full moral significance. Every 3 minutes, somebody's parent or sibling or friend. Every 31 minutes, somebody's baby. Each one preventable with about a hundredth of one cent per American.

Research is the reason cash transfers went from 'you must be mad' to mainstream. This opportunity to lead research GiveDirectly💸 requires technical chops, relational depth, leadership, moral vision- and it's going to be a lot of fun. job-boards.greenhouse.io/givedirectly/j…

First Ramadan Iftar in Gaza, Palestine.

Submissions to our chlorine pilot RFI due this Fri, March 7! We're looking to fund pilot programs that chlorinate drinking water in high mortality burden countries like Chad, Mali, Nigeria, Niger. Details in the RFI below - please share and apply!

BREAKING: Federal immigration agents detained a Georgetown University postdoctoral researcher March 18, accusing him of opposing U.S. foreign policy and seeking to deport him. The researcher, Badar Khan Suri, is in the U.S. legally on a student visa.

Excited to piggyback off of this work and see if the TuriTap can be adapted for handpumps givewell.org/research/grant…

The 10 most striking Kaplan-Meier curves (that I have seen) 🧵 1. Dual GLP1/GIP agonist, Tirzepatide, for prevention of type 2 diabetes in people with obesity It's easy to miss the dark blue line (15 mg group), because it never leaves the X axis:

Can Better Test Scores Lift Kids Out of Poverty? The Case for Long-Term Tracking of Education RCTs Excellent post by Rossiter Justin Sandefur Hares cgdev.org/blog/can-bette…

Starving Gazans packed behind fences for a scrap of aid. This isn’t relief—it’s humiliation and dehumanization by design. History won’t forget who watched and did nothing.

Really excited! We're spinning out livelihoods portfolio into its own team GiveWell. Looking for someone w quant background to build out portfolio. Remote, great comp. Please share with your networks!

Rafah is gone. Razed to the ground. It's not the only city decimated by the Israeli army haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Reuters now reporting this as well. If the GHF were a genuine humanitarian effort they would have long since halted a distribution model that produces daily massacres. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

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The Abundance and Growth Fund at Open Philanthropy is hiring! We’re looking for 2-4 people to help expand this new $120+ million program to accelerate economic growth and reduce the cost of living through strategic grantmaking and research. (1/4) openphilanthropy.org/research/annou…

Reporting by Patrick Kingsley and NYT colleagues shows that Netanyahu dragged out the war in Gaza partly for political reasons. Thousands perished--nearly 10,000 kids under 11 have died in Gaza so far--so Bibi could stay in office and out of prison. nytimes.com/2025/07/11/mag…

Cool evidence of progress against RSV from new vaccines and monoclonal antibodies -- hospitalizations are down in the youngest age cohort (exposed to new science) but not in older cohorts (not expose) via Saloni great newsletter