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.

We launched the Lead Exposure Action Fund, a $100m+ collaborative fund that makes strategic grants to measure, mitigate, and mainstream lead exposure. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Program Director Jacob Trefethen published a new blog post about effective nonprofits. You can subscribe to his blog here.

As part of our “Day in the Life” series, Dee Kathuria, a Recruiter at Open Phil, wrote about her day-to-day work. 

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.

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.

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. 

NPR covered lead-tainted turmeric in Bangladesh and the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future. 

Matthew Yglesias wrote about the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future and the larger problem of lead poisoning in Slow Boring and Bloomberg.

Vox covered the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future, its plans looking forward, and what USAID has learned from its launch. 

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. 

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.

Vox covered how the animal rights movement has become increasingly more unified, referring to our recent blog post on the Open Wing Alliance.

Inside Philanthropy profiled the philanthropic giving of Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, Open Phil’s chief funders.

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. 

Joe Carlsmith appeared on the Dwarkesh Podcast to discuss his essay “Otherness and control in the age of AGI”.

Jacob Trefethen discussed global health R&D on the podcast Hear This Idea.

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