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  • Behind the Research: How Our Team Tackles Hard Questions

    October 1, 2026 · 53 min

    In an effort to direct substantially more funding to the most cost-effective opportunities we can find to help people, GiveWell’s research is expanding in two directions at once: going broader, to cover more areas of global health and…

  • Pressure-Testing Our Research as GiveWell Grows

    September 3, 2026 · 38 min

    GiveWell works to continually improve our research so we can make better grant decisions and direct donations where we believe they can do the most good. GiveWell’s Cross-Cutting research subteam is an important part of that effort—it…

  • Announcing Our Largest Grant to Date

    August 24, 2026 · 46 min

    GiveWell, with co-funding from Coefficient Giving, recently made our largest grant to date: $276 million to the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) to support the procurement and distribution of 92 million nets in the Democratic Republic of…

  • Finding the Bottlenecks in Family Planning Access

    August 6, 2026 · 44 min

    When GiveWell investigates a new cause area, we’re often focused on two priorities: directing funding where we think it can help people most and generating evidence to inform larger investments later. Family planning is a clear example…

  • Tackling Diarrheal Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan

    July 23, 2026 · 34 min

    Diarrhea is one of the leading causes of death for children under five, killing more than 400,000 children every year. GiveWell has funded several programs to prevent and treat diarrhea, and we recently expanded our work by making a grant…

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  • Casting a Wider Net for Cost-Effective Programs

    July 13, 2026 · 44 min

    GiveWell tends to be known for its work in areas like malaria prevention, water treatment, and nutrition. But as our research team has grown, so has our ability to search for cost-effective programs across a much wider range of…

  • Expanding Our Search for Cost-Effective Ways to Reduce Poverty

    June 4, 2026 · 46 min

    In September 2025, we created a livelihoods research subteam to specifically focus on programs that increase the economic well-being of people in extreme poverty. While we have evaluated and funded livelihoods programs throughout…

  • What a Decade of Iron Funding Has Taught Us

    May 21, 2026 · 38 min

    Anemia, which is commonly caused by iron deficiency, can cause fatigue, cognitive impairment, and complications during pregnancy—and it affects roughly a quarter of the world’s population. Over the last decade, GiveWell has directed nearly…

  • Behind the Analysis: Assessing Past Malaria Nets Grants

    May 14, 2026 · 37 min

    GiveWell’s research doesn’t end once we’ve made a grant. We evaluate a subset of completed grants, comparing what we thought would happen to what actually took place, then try to use what we learn to improve our future funding decisions…

  • Evaluating and Funding a New Kind of Grant (Clubfoot Treatment)

    April 16, 2026 · 36 min

    Clubfoot, a congenital condition where children are born with one or both feet twisted inward, affects roughly one in 800 newborns globally. Most of those cases are in low- and middle-income countries, where only about 20% of children with…

  • Scrutinizing One of Our Longest-Funded Programs

    April 2, 2026 · 37 min

    Vitamin A supplementation is one of the programs GiveWell has supported the longest, and we’re currently funding it in many African countries. The program has an unusually strong evidence base for reducing child mortality, with multiple…

  • Investing in Information for Greater Future Impact

    March 19, 2026 · 35 min

    GiveWell’s primary focus has always been researching, identifying, and directing donations to programs we believe will do the most good. When GiveWell first started, we approached this by looking for organizations that were already…

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About the show

Welcome to GiveWell’s podcast sharing the latest updates on our work. Tune in for conversations with GiveWell staff members discussing current priorities of our Research team and recent developments in the global health landscape.