Jamie Simonson

Pure Earth Launches New Lead-Prevention Program in Seven Countries - Pure Earth Pure Earth is beginning a landmark global lead-prevention program that will operate in seven countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, including Ghana, Peru, Colombia, India, Indonesia, the Ph...

Pure Earth has launched a landmark lead-prevention program that will span seven countries working to implement effective lead exposure mitigation strategies. Support for this new program comes from the LEAF collaborative fund managed by Open Philanthropy.

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Finally, a big thank you to all our grantees, collaborators, and supporters worldwide 👏 I’m so thankful to be part of an organization and a community dedicated to improving health and wellbeing around the world as much as we possibly can!

Cool Things Our Global Health & Wellbeing Grantees Accomplished in 2024 | Open Philanthropy In 2024, grantees in Open Philanthropy’s Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW) portfolio made progress toward developing a next-generation malaria vaccine, successfully advocated for U.K. retailers to ado...

These are just a small sample of the grantees our GHW portfolio supports. I encourage you to read more stories of our grantees, as well as explore opportunities to directly donate and amplify the good they’re doing 💸

www.openphilanthropy.org/research/coo...

As my 8 million fellow New Yorkers can attest, the rent is too damn high! 🏠📈

Our Land Use Reform grantee Open New York helped pass the largest zoning overhaul in 50 years, potentially delivering billions in housing investment and 80,000 more homes in NYC to reduce rent prices!

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was divided, one half awarded to David Baker "for computational protein design", the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper "for protein structure predi...

Oh, and Baker’s work on computational protein design was recognized with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry!

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

There are about a billion flu cases per year & hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Supported by our Science program, Dr. Neil King & Dr. David Baker are using AI to design proteins & pioneer a universal flu vaccine that provides long-lasting protection against multiple strains 💉

US Embassy air-quality tweets led to global health benefits | PNAS The World Health Organization estimates that over 90% of the world’s population is exposed to hazardous levels of local air pollution. Air pollutio...

Lead isn’t the only deadly pollutant – air pollution kills 4 million annually in LMICs.

Our grantee, the Air Quality Data Gaps Fund, funds local sensors for countries without public data. Data drives policy — research suggests this can lead to cleaner air www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

In Global Public Health Policy, we launched the Lead Exposure Action Fund (LEAF) at the UNGA, raising $100M to tackle lead exposure. LEAF is supporting groups like
@pureearthnow.bsky.social, @cgdev.org, and others to mitigate, measure, and mainstream this threat.

www.leadexposureactionfund.org

Blood lead levels in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review - PubMed This work was supported by the United States Agency for International Development (Cooperative Agreement number AID-OAA-A-16-00019).

It’s estimated that lead kills 1.5 million people each year; a shocking number, but less surprising when you learn 1 in 2 children in LMICs have elevated blood-lead levels. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33713615/

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The work of our Farm Animal Welfare program’s grantees, such as @ciwf.org.uk, @thehumaneleagueus.bsky.social, and others, likely pushed 6 major UK retailers to commit to better conditions for 350 million of these chickens annually 🐓

Over a billion chickens will be raised on factory farms in the United Kingdom this year, many in poor conditions.

Our Global Health R&D program funded Dr. Simon Draper's work at Oxford to develop next-gen malaria vaccines by combining promising candidates with R21 - a vax already rolling out! A new vax could be longer-lasting and require fewer doses, enabling better protection & wider access

When I get bit by a mosquito here in the US, it’s annoying. When others get bit elsewhere, it’s potentially deadly – over 600,000 people died from malaria last year, a concerning increase after two decades of decline.

Despite the different focuses, they all share a common goal: improve health and wealth as much as possible with the resources available to us. To achieve this goal, each program supports grantees to do high-impact, cost effective work. Let’s see some examples👇:

Our Global Health and Wellbeing and Global Catastrophic Risks Grantmaking Portfolios | Open Philanthropy Learn more about our main grantmaking areas: longtermism and global health and wellbeing.

Open Phil’s GHW portfolio spans 9 focus areas, which range from improving public health policy and increasing the effectiveness of aid, to supporting basic science and developing new global health tools.

www.openphilanthropy.org/our-global-h...

Advancing next-gen malaria vaccines; improving conditions for hundreds of millions of animals; reducing lead exposure around the world. What do all these high-impact activities have in common?

Let me introduce you to @openphil.bsky.social ’s Global Health & Wellbeing portfolio & a few grantees👇🧵

In a less-than-shocking turn of events, I think GiveWell's recommendations are good!

Check out these and other giving recommendations from Open Phil staff here: www.openphilanthropy.org/research/sug...