We announced a new cause area in our Global Health and Wellbeing portfolio: Global Public Health Policy.
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* We announced a new cause area in our Global Health and Wellbeing portfolio: Global Public Health Policy. This program will support policy work related to South Asian air quality, lead exposure, alcohol policy, and suicide prevention. Grantmaking will be overseen by Santosh Harish, Chris Smith, and James Snowden ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Open Philanthropy program staff members made recommendations for individual donors looking for organizations to support. Read recommendations from past years here ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Lewis Bollard, our Program Director for Farm Animal Welfare, published a post outlining ten major animal advocacy wins in 2023. You can subscribe to Lewis’s Substack here ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In light of surprisingly rapid progress in large language models (LLMs), we’ve published two separate requests for proposals: one on benchmarking LLM agents, and the other on studying and forecasting the real-world impacts of LLM systems. Anyone is eligible to apply; we will evaluate applications on a rolling basis ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Researchers on Open Philanthropy’s Farm Animal Welfare team published a list of social science topics related to animal welfare. The team compiled the list because they are often asked for suggestions on valuable research topics ([link removed]).
* We recently commissioned a case study on insecticide-treated bednets from the Urban Institute. Lauren Gilbert, a Research Fellow on our Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization team, wrote about key findings from the study ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Julian Hazell, a Program Associate for our work on AI governance and policy, wrote a blog post outlining some talent profiles he’d particularly like to see in the AI governance space ([link removed]).
In the News
* Santosh Harrish, who leads our South Asian air quality grantmaking, appeared on the 80,000 Hours podcast to discuss the harms of air pollution and the regulatory landscape in India ([link removed]).
* Ajeya Cotra, a Senior Program Officer for our work on technical AI safety, was quoted in the New York Times on how likely AI is to bring about a catastrophic event ([link removed]).
* Our air quality monitoring grant to the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur was covered by the Times of India and the Indian Express ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
Grantmaking
Photo courtesy of Global Food Partners
We announced a number of grants, including (but not limited to):
In Biosecurity and Pandemic Prevention:
* SecureBio to support a project on pathogen early warning systems, which are an important tool in preparing for pandemics and disease outbreaks ([link removed]).
In Farm Animal Welfare:
* Global Food Partners to support its work helping corporations in Asia follow through on their farm animal welfare pledges ([link removed]).
* People For Animals Uttarakhand to support animal welfare movement-building fellowships ([link removed]).
* The Humane League for general support, and to support the Open Wing Alliance ([link removed]).
In South Asian Air Quality:
* Health Effects Institute to produce a scientific assessment of changes in air quality in Indian cities over 5 years of the National Clean Air Programme ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) to support the work of the Centre for Air Pollution Studies (CAPS), an initiative of CSTEP. This grant will help CAPS expand its work across air quality modeling, measurement and sensor evaluation, and policy analysis. ([link removed])
In Scientific Research:
* International Vaccine Institute to support a study on the incidence and impact of Hepatitis E and leptospirosis in pregnant women in Sri Lanka ([link removed]).
* The University of Amsterdam to support the design and preclinical testing of two vaccine candidates for Hepatitis C virus ([link removed]).
In Global Aid Policy:
* Stockholm School of Economics for a project to support senior government, private sector, and civil society professionals working to drive international collaboration on public health ([link removed]).
In Potential Risks from Advanced AI:
* OpenMined to support work on developing software that facilitates access to advanced AI systems for external researchers and auditors while preserving privacy, security, and intellectual property ([link removed]).
* Eleuther AI to support research on AI interpretability ([link removed]).
* Modulo Research to support research into LLM sandwiching experiments, dataset development, and capability evaluations ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
Jobs and other opportunities
* A Business Operations Associate and Business Operations Coordinator to help Open Philanthropy run smoothly and effectively ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Research Fellow and Strategy Fellow openings on our Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization team ([link removed]).
* A variety of funding opportunities, including fellowships, scholarships, funding for community organizing, and support for effective altruism-related translation projects ([link removed])([link removed]).
* A general application to let us know you'd be interested in working at Open Philanthropy ([link removed]).
Best,
Jeremy Klemin
Content Editor
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