Alongside USAID and UNICEF, we launched the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future.

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Recent Updates
* Alongside USAID and UNICEF, we launched the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future — a collaboration of more than 50 countries and organizations focused on creating a lead-free future for children in low- and middle-income countries ([link removed]).
* We launched the Lead Exposure Action Fund, a $100m+ collaborative fund that makes strategic grants to measure, mitigate, and mainstream lead exposure ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Our Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building team recently published two requests for proposals: one for programs and events on global catastrophic risk, effective altruism, and other topics, and another for work that builds capacity to address risks from transformative AI ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* We wrote about how the Japanese PR firm Platinum (an Open Phil grantee) has helped draw attention to the country’s role in global health funding ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Matt Clancy, who leads our Innovation Policy program, wrote about living literature reviews (LLRs). We’re now seeking pre-proposals from individuals to write LLRs; see Matt’s explainer for more information ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Matt has two new blog posts: Incentives to Invent at Universities, and The Decline in Writing About Progress. You can subscribe to his blog here ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Program Director Jacob Trefethen published a new blog post about effective nonprofits. You can subscribe to his blog here ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* As part of our “Day in the Life” series, Dee Kathuria, a Recruiter at Open Phil, wrote about her day-to-day work ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Luca Righetti, a Research Fellow on our Global Catastrophic Risks Cause Prioritization team, published “Dangerous capability tests should be harder” on Planned Obsolescence, a blog run by Senior Program Officer Ajeya Cotra and Vox journalist Kelsey Piper ([link removed]).
* Senior Research Analyst Joe Carlsmith published an essay about what it would mean to “solve” the AI alignment problem ([link removed]).

In the News
* Open Phil CEO Alexander Berger and USAID Administrator Samantha Power co-wrote a Washington Post op-ed about the launch of the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future ([link removed]).
* James Snowden, who manages our grantmaking on lead exposure, spoke about Open Phil’s commitment to addressing the problem at a Devex event on the sidelines of the 2024 UN General Assembly ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* NPR covered lead-tainted turmeric in Bangladesh and the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future ([link removed]).
* Matthew Yglesias wrote about the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future and the larger problem of lead poisoning in Slow Boring and Bloomberg ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Vox covered the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future, its plans looking forward, and what USAID has learned from its launch
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* Open Phil grantee David Baker was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Open Phil President Cari Tuna was featured by Vanity Fair as one of six women making strides in philanthropy. She also appeared on TIME's list of the 100 most influential people in AI.
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* Devex reported on the establishment of the EPIC Air Quality Fund (supported by Open Phil). The fund aims to expand access to air quality data by installing air quality monitors and providing communities with the resulting information ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Vox covered how the animal rights movement has become increasingly more unified, referring to our recent blog post on the Open Wing Alliance.
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* Inside Philanthropy profiled the philanthropic giving of Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, Open Phil’s chief funders ([link removed]).
* Stat News published a detailed writeup on the RTS,S and R21 malaria vaccines. The latter was co-invented by Katharine Collins, a Program Officer on our Global Health R&D team ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Joe Carlsmith appeared on the Dwarkesh Podcast to discuss his essay “Otherness and control in the age of AGI ([link removed]) ([link removed])”.
* Jacob Trefethen discussed global health R&D on the podcast Hear This Idea ([link removed]).
Grantmaking
Photo courtesy of the Georgia Institute of Technology
We announced a number of grants, including:

In Farm Animal Welfare:
* World Animal Protection to support regranting to farm animal welfare groups in Southeast Asia ([link removed]).
* Madre Brava to support its work to negotiate commitments from food retailers to sell more alternative protein products in place of animal meat products ([link removed]).
* Mercy for Animals to support its broiler welfare and cage-free corporate campaigns, as well as some related farm animal welfare activities ([link removed]).

In Scientific Research:
* The Georgia Institute of Technology to support work led by Professor Saad Bhamla to develop a cheap and portable Raman spectrometer, and then test it as a tuberculosis diagnostic tool ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The University of Washington to support several research projects led by Dr. Lorenzo Giacani that may facilitate the development of a vaccine against syphilis ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* La Trobe University to support research led by Professor Hamsa Puthalakath on the development of a treatment for pediatric sepsis ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

In Global Aid Policy:
* The Joep Lange Institute to support its work to expand the donor base for multilateral global health organizations through government advocacy ([link removed]).

In Potential Risks from Advanced AI:
* UC Berkeley to support Professor Koushik Sen and his team in developing a software engineering benchmark, using their Repository2Environment framework ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) to support the Global AI Risks Initiative, a project within CIGI that fosters international cooperation to address global-scale risks from AI ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* Stanford University to support research led by Professor Percy Liang to develop a benchmark for the cybersecurity capabilities of large language model agents ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

In Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness:
* Rutgers University to support work led by Professor Nir Eyal to advance an interdisciplinary, global conversation about the governance of life sciences research ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

In Global Health R&D:
* The Erasmus University Medical Center to support research on modeling the potential public health impact and cost-effectiveness of mass drug administration of emodepside to combat soil-transmitted helminths ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).).

In Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building:
* Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator (ARENA), a program that provides talented individuals with the skills, tools, and environment necessary for upskilling in machine learning engineering ([link removed]).
* BlueDot Impact, which runs online courses aimed at helping people increase the impact of their careers ([link removed]).

To see more grants we've awarded, visit our grants page ([link removed]).
Jobs and other opportunities
* Operations roles based in either SF or DC, and a general application to let us know you'd be interested in working at Open Philanthropy ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
As always, please consider referring candidates to these roles — if we hire someone you referred, we’ll give you $5000 ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
A variety of funding opportunities, including fellowships, scholarships, support for group organizers, and funding for career development and transition ([link removed]) ([link removed]). 


Best,
Jeremy Klemin
Content Editor

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