The Global Health and Development Fund aims to improve the health or economic empowerment of people around the world as effectively as possible.
The Global Health and Development Fund recommends grants with the aim of improving people's lives, typically in the poorest regions of the world where the need for healthcare and economic empowerment is greatest. This will be achieved primarily by supporting projects that:
Directly provide healthcare, or preventive measures that will improve health, well-being, or life expectancy
Directly provide services that raise incomes or otherwise improve economic conditions
Provide assistance to governments in the design and implementation of effective policies
In addition, the Global Health and Development Fund has a broad remit, and may fund other activities whose ultimate purpose is to serve people living in the poorest regions of the world, for example by raising additional funds (e.g. One for the World) or by exploring novel financing arrangements (e.g. Instiglio).
The Fund manager recommends grants to GiveWell top charities as a baseline, but will recommend higher-risk grants they believe to be more effective (in expectation) than GiveWell top charities. As such, the fund makes grants with a variety of different risk profiles.
The Fund is currently managed by GiveWell co-founder Elie Hassenfeld. Elie and GiveWell staff have extensive experience analyzing unusually promising opportunities in the global health and development space; GiveWell recommends charities that are evidence-backed, thoroughly vetted, and underfunded.
Highlighted Grants
2021 Q4
Center for Global Development - $1,200,000.00
Support research into the effects of lead exposure on economic and educational outcomes, and run a working group that will author policy outreach documents and engage with global policymakers
2021 Q3
Pure Earth - $5,670,000.00
Support work on identifying and mitigating sources of lead exposure in low and middle income countries
2021 Q2
Innovations for Poverty Action - $150,000.00
Support the RCT on the effect of promoting mask use (previously funded by the Fund in July 2020 and December 2020) and assist with scaling the intervention
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