Manpreet Singh

Yes and yes!

I don't use the handwriting to text feature as that doesn't work. But I can (mostly) interpret my own handwriting. It replaces paper notebooks for me. I have a separate file for each of my regular meetings (1 on 1s and team meetings), so it's much easier to find notes and next steps.

The unfolding tragedy of ending US aid Funding cuts could result in one million deaths in the next year

Most things by @timharford.ft.com are an instant recommend. This piece about the impact of aid funding cuts is essential: www.ft.com/content/8575...

"A million deaths may be a statistic, but it is also a million tragedies. Most of these tragedies could still be prevented"

This is obscene. Also, any news about RFK and vaccines should remind people that he profits from anti-vax legal cases: www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Opinion | The Waste Musk Created

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o... I'm glad that @nickkristof.bsky.social is reporting on the impact of the USAID cuts

Thank God for immigrants This week, of all weeks: Thank God they came here and chose to make it their home.

I needed to read this piece by @iandunt.bsky.social: iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...

An unapologetically positive piece about immigrants and immigration

First, jab more babies As aid shrinks, donors and recipients should focus more on health

First, jab more babies
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
From The Economist

The market for nostalgic aging millennials is strong. Seattle tickets aren't on sale yet...

Skyscanner has an 'explore everywhere' option

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

If you haven't read 4000 weeks yet, I'd strongly recommend that. It tells you that by focusing on productivity, you're asking the wrong question.

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc.

In a word: Harvard.

Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard.

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This is a remarkable piece of writing, about the most compelling of cricketers.

The gif we've all been waiting for.

...Pretend to hate the British when they love us really...

Re-evaluating the Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers - The GiveWell Blog This year, we re-evaluated the cost effectiveness of direct cash transfers as implemented by GiveDirectly.

This is a good reanalysis of the impact of GiveDirectly. The vast majority of our family's personal giving is to this org. Partly because the impact is compelling. Mostly because development, to me, is about agency. And unconditional cash transfers enable agency.

. @kopalo.bsky.social is a must read for anyone interested in global health or development. I 100% agree with him here.

Would add - getting serious about adaptation often means getting serious about impact of climate change on health and food systems.

I heard it was a mekko chamber

I made one for 'types of paper in epidemiology and public health'
#EpiSky

#vaccineswork

We now have 3 starter packs for Global Health Nerds!

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Will keep updating!

Economics & Marginalia: November 15, 2024 Ok, there’s a slightly more-than-evens chance that I’m going to fall asleep before I finish writing this email. I’ve been up since a little before five am to get up to Oxford and teach a couple of cla...

And the links are up! Albeit half-asleep. On taxation, migration, ideology and The Onion. #EconSky

www.cgdev.org/blog/economi...

Why do you care about the private sector in health in Kenya? "Grant space is shrinking, but there are plenty of impact investors and PE fund within a one mile radius of me"

"If we look at the true state of health financing in Kenya, in Malawi, across the continent, we are constrained for the next 5-10 years. There is no new money" from a partner meeting in Nairobi. Has #globalhealth really grappled with this?

Retweeting for a different time zone!

Community Health Worker in Nairobi: "Our problem is that Meta AI does not speak Kiswahili"

@madhupai.bsky.social can I be added to the starter pack #2 please?

Updated Global Health Nerds starter pack

Will create part 2!

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It's the vibes. The energy. The hustle. All still here. And the city has grown a ton!