Erin Crossett

Excited to share: the Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) Fund officially launched this week as an independent nonprofit. @coeff_giving is proud to be an anchor funder. 🧵

As our research capacity has grown, so has our ability to fund different kinds of programs—like clubfoot treatment. 🎧 CEO Elie Hassenfeld + Program Officer Meika Ball discuss our grant to @miraclefeet & what a recent site visit to Côte d'Ivoire revealed: bit.ly/4sLXa27

Anyone in DC tomorrow interested in global health, please come to this!

GiveWell's senior research staff drives $400M+/yr in grants, and we'd like to substantially grow this team. Finding great researchers is a really hard problem, though. We're looking for recruiters who can help us solve it. If that sounds like you, you should apply!

🔎 We're hiring Researchers to help direct $400M+ annually to cost-effective global health programs. Looking for: - Quantitative background (master's or PhD) - Evidence synthesis & modeling skills - Clear communication Fully remote + competitive salary grnh.se/3arntwf48us

We recently learned that about 1/3 as many people used Evidence Action’s chlorine dispensers as we previously estimated in Malawi and Uganda (~5m ppl vs <2m). Here, we dig into what happened, how we learned about it, and next steps for dispensers and chlorination more broadly.

📣 2 RFIs open! 1️⃣ Vaccination outreach: Seeking targeted outreach or mobile vaccination programs in DRC, Nigeria, or Somalia. 2️⃣ Anemia control: Seeking iron fortification, supplementation, or biofortification programs in Africa. 🗓 Deadline: March 27 bit.ly/40EHCS0

We’re funding, to our knowledge, the largest individually randomized trial of malaria chemoprevention drugs to better understand effectiveness in eastern & southern Africa. 🎧 CEO Elie Hassenfeld & Sr Researcher John Macke discuss what we aim to learn: bit.ly/4ryTf8n

We’re excited to announce the DIV Fund: an evidence-driven innovation fund for global development that finds and supports solutions with the potential to cost-effectively improve millions of lives. Applications open later in 2026 - learn more at div.fund

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world." nytimes.com/2026/02/01/opi…

BREAKING: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will shut down. It's last issue will be May 3. This comes after years of turmoil in the newsroom, and striking workers returning to work after 3-years on the picket line, though many strikebreakers worked throughout.

Some news: @coeff_giving is committing $175m to @GiveWell in 2026, growing our >$1B committed to date. Based on GiveWell’s estimates, we think this funding has saved >100,000 lives so far. 🧵

Mauritania now offers the six-in-one childhood vaccine. It sounds like a small step, but it’s anything but. Here’s why the hexavalent jab matters. 🧵

Planet Money followed along with @GiveWell as our team investigated an urgent grant opportunity in response to USAID cuts in Cameroon

In the latest from @planetmoney follow along with our investigation of a $1.9 million grant to @ALIMA_ORG earlier this year to support primary healthcare, hospital services, and malnutrition treatment in the face of aid cuts. 🎙️ Listen: n.pr/3KaSAKx

🚨 Hiring scientists to help give away money 🚨 At @open_phil, we have given away $600M in biomedical research since 2016. Now, we're expanding the team to do more. Hiring: * Up to 3 Senior Program Associates * Program Officer in strep A Remote OK, salaries in links! (thread)

We @GiveWell funded $16M in grants to 7 orgs to pilot inline chlorination across 6 countries: a mix of refugee & IDP camps, partnering w some orgs that can manage underlying water point infra, all high child mortality burden settings. Proud of this work! blog.givewell.org/2025/10/29/saf…

What makes me most angry is that there's nothing Americans "get" from destroying USAID in a way that directly results in the death of the world's poorest children. It barely even qualifies as an act of selfishness. We're doing it for nothing. The debt picture is completely unchanged. Being an insanely rich country that controls its own currency means we have a genuinely magical ability to save hundreds of thousands of lives around the world with a budgetary rounding error. And MAGA's like: "No thanks, it sounds woke."

In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial conducted in Uganda, the use of permethrin-treated baby wraps significantly reduced the incidence of clinical malaria among young children. Full trial results: nej.md/4msFwwX

🔍 We're hiring Research Analysts to support our research that directs hundreds of millions to cost-effective global health programs. Looking for: - Strong analytical skills - Attention to detail - Clear communication Remote eligible, $98.6k-$108.8k bit.ly/4nkrvCZ