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 pesticide suicide prevention. Grantmaking will be overseen by Santosh Harish, Chris Smith, and James Snowden.

Open Philanthropy program staff members made recommendations for individual donors looking for organizations to support. Read recommendations from past years here. 

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. 

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. 

Santosh Harish, who leads our work on South Asian air quality, appeared on the 80,000 Hours podcast to discuss the harms of air pollution and the regulatory landscape in India.  

Ajeya Cotra, who leads our work on technical AI safety, was quoted in the New York Times on how likely AI is to bring about a catastrophic event. 

A Business Operations Associate and Business Operations Coordinator to help Open Philanthropy run smoothly and effectively. We expect to close these hiring rounds on or before February 7th.

Research Fellow and Strategy Fellow openings on our Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization team. Apply by January 28th at 11:59 pm PST.

A variety of funding opportunities, including fellowships, scholarships, funding for community organizing, and support for effective altruism-related translation projects.