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Philanthropy and technoscience: Effective altruism’s interventions in neglected tropical diseases

Department & Center Events

Friday, January 26, 2024, 11:00 a.m. - 11:55 a.m. ET
Location
Zoom
Online
Past Event

We invite you to join the upcoming sessions of the working paper series on health policy analysis in low and middle-income countries. Each webinar will begin with a 10 to 15-minute presentation by the speaker, followed by 30 minutes of open discussion in response to the presentation.

Samantha Vanderslott

Associate Professor

Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford

This talk considers how ‘effective altruism’ produces philanthropic value by allocating moral worth to particular causes and interventions. The case of neglected tropical diseases shows how effective altruists produce evidence on neglect by reworking global health categories, and how they assess the efficiency of low-cost interventions.

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Jeremy Shiffman