📝 Here's my takeaway: With #foreignaid dwindling & upheaval in #globaldev, millions of lives are at stake, abroad & at home (Remember Covid?)
Research like this helps leaders do ⬆️ with ⬇️, devise better ways to construct policy or apply practice, & make smart 💰 decisions. We need more evidence.
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21.08.2025 23:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The team found the impacts were driven by:
⬆️ hospital births
⬆️ rest for pregnant women
⬆️ nutrition
They were also greatest in areas close to health clinics - so 💸 is not a replacement for health infrastructure, but works hand-in-glove with it.
🤔 But what can we make of these findings?
21.08.2025 23:21 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash
The findings are stunning: 48% fewer infant deaths before 1 and 45% fewer child deaths before 5. This rivals public health tools like vaccinations and antimalarial drugs.
The NYT took note: nytimes.com/2025/08/18/h...
So did NPR's All Things Considered: npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
21.08.2025 23:20 — 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1
Partnering with @give-directly.bsky.social, they studied:
✅ one-time, unconditional cash payments of $1,000
✅ to 10,500 households in rural Kenya
✅ delivered 2014-2017
✅ using census info about changes in family composition, employment, health and more.
🗓️ This took years to analyze!
21.08.2025 23:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Cash Transfers Dramatically Cut Infant Mortality in Kenya, New Research Finds
Berkeley, CA (18 Aug. 2025) — With the global development community facing financial upheaval, global development goals increasingly out of reach, and the need for aid greater than ever, new...
🚨 Evidence alert: RCT from a @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social / @ox.ac.uk team found that unconditional cash xfers led to 48% ⬇️ infant deaths in Kenya. 🧢 off to team behind this study: Michael Walker, @tedmiguel.bsky.social, Dennis Egger, Nick Shankar, and Grady Killeen.
go.cega.org/cashimpacts
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21.08.2025 23:18 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
The 13th Africa Evidence Summit kicks off with @deankarlan.bsky.social, Catherine Kyobutungi ( @aphrc.bsky.social) and Emilie Oftedal (@norad.no) discussing how the #globaldev sector can respond to the recent cuts to foreign aid. #AES2025 @cega-uc.bsky.social
23.06.2025 06:43 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Excited for this stellar line-up of #globaldev leaders looking at the future of foreign aid using #evidence, innovation, and collaboration. CEGA, @busaracenter.bsky.social, and the Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa showing how partnership can chart a path forward and improve lives.
10.06.2025 17:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Samantha Power attacks 'cowardice' of Rubio and 'ignorance' of DOGE
Two former USAID administrators delivered a powerful bipartisan defense of the agency’s workforce, condemning the Trump administration’s dismantling of what was once the largest aid agency in the worl...
“This cowardice stands in marked contrast to the bravery of the workers of #USAID, who put themselves in harm’s way and risked their lives to answer this country’s call.”
Sam Power quoted in this fab story from Devex's @elissamio.bsky.social that pulls you right in.
www.devex.com/news/samanth...
21.05.2025 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Evidence as an Antidote to Chaos
Carson Christiano is the executive director of the Center for Effective Global Action. Reflecting on the recent changes in federal support for research and the global development community, below...
With global aid budget cuts, evidence is even more crucial.
Executive Director @carsonchristiano.bsky.social calls for investing in research to maximize impact with limited resources, especially in cost-effectiveness initiatives like CEGA's PILCEE program. #econsky
cega.berkeley.edu/article/evid...
11.03.2025 19:54 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Sad, sad news. We've lost a great.
10.03.2025 21:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So proud to have co-organized this rally, w/ inspiring + brave speeches from @tedmiguel.bsky.social, @fdoperez.bsky.social, @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social+20 more and 1000+ attendees! We need to keep fighting against the depraved stream of chaos flooding this country and damaging the rest of the world.
08.03.2025 22:23 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
You're right! I missed that in my rush, apologies. Clockwise from top right: Jennifer Doudna addresses the crowd. Wide shot of attendees with Sproul Hall in background. Wide shot of crowd with MLK Jr. student union in background. Wide shot of crowd as Edward Miguel is interviewed in foreground.
08.03.2025 05:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jennifer Doudna speaking at Stand Up for Science in Berkeley
crowd at Stand Up for Science in Berkeley
crowd at Stand Up for Science in Berkeley
crowd at Stand Up for Science in Berkeley
Thanks to out @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social community for joining us at Stand Up For Science! @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social spoke about how NIH funding supported her PhD & NSF funding supported her development of #CRISPR genome editing. Federal funding is needed for life-saving science!
08.03.2025 00:03 — 👍 91 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 2
🏛️ ✊ TODAY: Stand Up For Science at UC Berkeley, CA
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@standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025
07.03.2025 23:48 — 👍 285 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 0
Science is an engine of economic, social, and political progress. On Friday, a nationwide movement of scientists + concerned citizens will rally against recent federal actions and orders that have created a risk to our economy, well-being, and society. Berkeley event: standup4scienceberkeley.com.
06.03.2025 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A mostly blank page with the words Strong and Free, from the English version of the Canadian national anthem )
Below the fold of this newspaper sheet , in smaller type, news and editorial references to the trade war
This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
05.03.2025 15:29 — 👍 23793 🔁 5140 💬 483 📌 373
"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.”
Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself.
Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."
ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.
This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
03.03.2025 03:45 — 👍 8092 🔁 3185 💬 205 📌 344
Pleased that the ProPublica brand is strong enough that if I casually ask a friend about her workplace, her immediate response is, "Wait, are you investigating us?!"
27.02.2025 14:49 — 👍 354 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 2
This. A million times this.
28.02.2025 04:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Center for Effective Global Action
CEGA | New insights and tools to improve lives
Hello from CEGA!
We generate rigorous research on global poverty, using innovative data, methods, and partnerships, to improve the lives of millions.
We also provide policymakers & funders cost-effective strategies to scale evidence-backed solutions for development.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fps...
27.02.2025 19:19 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.
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Difficult to put into words how catastrophic this is for millions of people right now - maybe billions of future lives.
24.02.2025 16:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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20.02.2025 23:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey, university friends… Breathe.
The recent slashing of NIH indirect cost rates is unlikely to survive. It’s another Trump stunt.
Courts will have a say. And so will OMB.
And pharmaceutical companies won’t stand for it. NIH-backed research enjoys a ton of congressional (and lobbyist) support.
08.02.2025 04:44 — 👍 267 🔁 39 💬 19 📌 4
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