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Global Health and Development Fund

fund · EA Funds: Global Health and Development Fund, Effective Altruism Funds: Global Health and Development Fund

Total granted
$37,491,375
Grants
35
Average size
$1,071,182
Coverage
100%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2017–25

Grants over time

$0$5.0M$10M$15M201720182019202020212022202320242025

Biggest cause areas

Global health and development$37,072,37599%35
Biosecurity$419,0001%1

Biggest recipients

Malaria Consortium$8,669,00223%4
Against Malaria Foundation$6,574,55618%3
Pure Earth$5,670,00015%1
Innovations for Poverty Action$3,040,0008%4
Nutrition International$2,500,0007%1
Schistosomiasis Control Initiative$1,500,0004%1
IDinsight$1,206,0003%2
Center for Global Development$1,200,0003%1

Grants received 2 · $5,400 · $5,400 average

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Jun 23, 2021Jacob Steinhardt$5,400Global health and developmentvipul_donationsThe Global Health and Development Fund is managed by Elie Hassenfeld, CEO of GiveWell, and primarily funds GiveWell Incubation Grants.
Dec 18, 2017Morgan Davis—Global health and developmentvipul_donationsSplit between the different funds: 5% for animal welfare, 5% for global development, 15% for EA Community, and 75% for the long-term future fund. Donor also considered donating to Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI), which she is impressed by, and sees a need for after encountering bureaucracy in academia while working as grant manager for the Open Philanthropy Project. However, she ultimately felt that the fund managers for Effective Altruism Funds would be able to make better decisions

Grants made

Date ↓RecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Oct 2025Child and Adolescent Causes of Death Estimation teamEA Funds, Johns Hopkins University$545,780Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport for the Child and Adolescent Causes of Death Estimation team's subnational cause-of-death estimation work in Nigeria.
Jul 2025University of OxfordEA Funds$152,140Global health and developmentea_fundsFunding for a study comparing iron bioavailability across sources among pregnant women in Kenya.
Jan 2025Resolve to Save LivesEA Funds$726,889Global health and developmentea_fundsFunding to conduct market analyses in three cities in China to spell out a theory of change for a potential larger grant to increase the coverage of low-sodium salt.
Jan 2024Evidence ActionEA Funds$97,000Global health and developmentea_fundsThis grant will fund Evidence Action's work conducting baseline Iron and Folic Acid coverage surveys in Karnataka and Tripura, including follow-up analysis and dissemination activities.
Jan 2024PATHEA Funds$838,000Biosecurity, Global health and developmentea_fundsDiscretionary grant for bridge funding to PATH for malaria vaccine TA
Jul 2023Nutrition InternationalEA Funds$2,500,000Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport for Nutrition International's vitamin A supplementation work in Chad.
Apr 2023GDI Solutions, Inc - 4/4/2023EA Funds$855,000Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport for core funding and fellowships in the youth empowerment space
Oct 2022One Acre Fund - 10/3/2022EA Funds$77,523Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport the planning of an RCT and other data gathering activities for One Acre Fund's tree seedlings program
Oct 2022Malaria ConsortiumEA Funds$1,690,095Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport of seasonal malaria chemoprevention program.
Oct 2022Johns Hopkins UniversityEA Funds$102,732Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport for the planning of an RCT of IRD's Zero TB program in Pakistan
Jul 2022Malaria ConsortiumEA Funds$3,798,400Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport of seasonal malaria chemoprevention program.
Apr 2022IRD Global Limited - 2022-04-04EA Funds$300,000Global health and developmentea_fundsTo support Zero TB work in Karachi, Pakistan
Apr 2022Development Consortium - 2022-04-05EA Funds$255,716Global health and developmentea_fundsRestricted support for the activities of Project Fortify Health
Apr 2022Fortify Health - 2022-04-05EA Funds$150,000Global health and developmentea_fundsRestricted support for the activities of Project Fortify Health
Jan 2022Against Malaria FoundationEA Funds$4,767,923Global health and developmentea_fundsPurchase antimalarial bednets for campaigns that will occur in Nigeria in 2023
Oct 2021Center for Global DevelopmentEA Funds$1,200,000Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport 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
Oct 2021IRD GlobalEA Funds$262,000Global health and developmentea_fundsTo support its Zero TB team in Karachi, Pakistan
Jul 2021Pure EarthEA Funds$5,670,000Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport work on identifying and mitigating sources of lead exposure in low and middle income countries
Apr 2021Innovations for Poverty ActionEA Funds$150,000Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport 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
Jan 2021Malaria ConsortiumEA Funds$1,475,507Global health and developmentea_fundsSeasonal malaria chemoprevention programs in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Togo, and Chad
Jan 2021Against Malaria FoundationEA Funds$1,475,507Global health and developmentea_fundsModeling impact in DRC and Nigeria
Oct 2020Innovations for Poverty ActionEA Funds$800,000Global health and developmentea_fundsIn December 2020, the Global Health and Development Fund recommended an $800,000 grant to Innovations for Poverty Action, to support the completion of the masks RCT previously funded by the Fund in 2020 Q3
Oct 2020Innovations for Poverty ActionEA Funds$90,000Global health and developmentea_fundsManage communications around the masks RCT previously funded by the Fund in 2020 Q3
Oct 2020Centre for Pesticide Suicide PreventionEA Funds$198,320Global health and developmentea_fundsWork to reduce the suicide rate by identifying and advocating for the withdrawal of pesticides commonly used in suicide
Jul 2020IDinsightEA Funds$550,000Global health and developmentea_fundsThis is a continuation of the previous $656,000 grant recommended by the Fund in June and will be used to continue supporting their COVID-19 projects
Jul 2020Innovations for Poverty ActionEA Funds$2,000,000Global health and developmentea_fundsFunds to run a cluster-randomized controlled trial on the effect of community promotion of mask use on respiratory disease in Bangladesh
Apr 2020IDinsightEA Funds$656,000Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport for their projects related to COVID-19
Oct 2019One for the WorldEA Funds$355,000Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport for movement of students and young professionals who commit to giving at least 1% of their income to OFTW's recommended charities, for life
Jul 2019Fortify HealthEA Funds$1,005,716Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport whole wheat flour iron fortification program over two years in Maharashtra and West Bengal, India
Apr 2019Schistosomiasis Control InitiativeEA Funds$1,500,000Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport for SCI's deworming program
Apr 2019InstiglioEA Funds$60,000Global health and developmentea_fundsDesign costs for the initial technical specification for a Health Outcomes Fund, which is focused on primary health care
Jan 2019J-PAL's Innovation in Government InitiativeEA Funds$1,000,000Global health and developmentea_fundsExploratory work into opportunities to help improve the uptake and implementation of evidence-based policy by governments
Jan 2019Malaria ConsortiumEA Funds$1,705,000Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport for the Malaria Consortium’s Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) program
Jul 2017Evidence ActionEA Funds$150,000Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport for the No Lean Season program
Apr 2017Against Malaria FoundationEA Funds$331,126Global health and developmentea_fundsSupport to be able to sign additional agreements to distribute malaria nets