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Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
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174 minutes
Released:
Apr 12, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
The effective altruist research community tries to identify the highest impact things people can do to improve the world. Unsurprisingly, given the difficulty of such a massive and open-ended project, very different schools of thought have arisen about how to do the most good.Today’s guest, Alexander Berger, leads Open Philanthropy’s ‘Global Health and Wellbeing’ programme, where he oversees around $175 million in grants each year, and ultimately aspires to disburse billions in the most impactful ways he and his team can identify.In this conversation from 2021, Alexander explains the case in favour of adopting the ‘global health and wellbeing’ mindset, while going through the arguments for the longtermist approach that he finds most and least convincing.Full transcript, related links, and summary of this interviewThis episode first broadcast on the regular 80,000 Hours Podcast feed on July 12, 2021. Some related episodes include:
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Series produced by Keiran Harris.
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Released:
Apr 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (12)
One: Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil's plan to do the same: Both the Green Revolution and the contraceptive pill are widely recognised as scientific breakthroughs that transformed the world. But few know that those breakthroughs only happened when they did because of a philanthropist willing to take a risky bet on by Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours