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Growing Our Largest Research Area: Malaria
Despite significant progress over the past few decades, malaria still kills around 600,000 people annually, mostly young children in Africa. While malaria prevention has long been a focus for GiveWell, the growing capacity and specialized expertise of our malaria research subteam are now enabling us to take on this challenge in ways that would not have been possible even a few years ago.
Among our efforts, we are:
Funding evidence generation to improve future grantmaking decisions: We’re funding new studies and strengthening monitoring and evaluation data for the programs we already support. For example, we funded studies on how long nets provide protection in Nigeria and Cameroon, which could inform how often campaigns should be conducted to maximize their cost-effectiveness and impact.
Identifying ways to increase coverage of our core programs: With a larger team, we have been able to look for more ways to increase the number of people benefiting from seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) and insecticide-treated nets. We funded a grant aimed at understanding the most significant barriers to net use and another to learn more about whether SMC campaigns could successfully expand to help more children.
Searching for new opportunities to help more people: Despite widespread implementation of very effective malaria prevention programs, like SMC and nets, many people are still infected and die each year. To find additional cost-effective strategies that are not yet widely deployed, GiveWell’s malaria subteam recently launched a request for information from potential grantees.
For more than a decade, GiveWell has been at the forefront of malaria prevention, and we’re excited about the progress we’re making as we continue to expand this work. Read more.
“Looking Back to Give Better” Webinar Recap
GiveWell’s latest webinar took a close look at a critical step in our research process: evaluating past grants to understand what happened, why, and how we can use what we learned to improve our grantmaking over time. GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld, Program Directors Alex Cohen and Julie Faller, and Senior Program Officer Adam Salisbury discussed four recent comprehensive grant lookbacks and answered audience questions. Read more and watch the recording.
Expanding Our Search for Cost-Effective Ways