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  Table of Contents   International  Developing world health Family planning and reproductive health Microfinance Other developing world economic empowerment Other   United States equality of opportunity Meta-research Funders Other    International Developing world health Action Against Hunger (ACF) (more information) Geoffrey Glick, Director of External Relations on August 15, 2011.Against Malaria Foundation (charity review) Rob Mather, Founder on February 11, 2011. Rob Mather, Founder on March 16, 2011. Site Visit, Concern Universal (Against Malaria Foundation); Ntcheu, Malawi on October 19-22, 2011. Conversation with community officials regarding LLIN distribution. Site Visit, Concern Universal (Against Malaria Foundation); Ntcheu, Malawi on October 21, 2011. Rob Mather, Founder on August 15, 2013. Don de Savigny, member of Malaria Advisory Group on October 22, 2013. Rob Mather, Founder and CEO on March 6, 2014. Rob Mather, Founder and CEO on May 23, 2014. Rob Mather, Founder and CEO and Peter Sherratt, Executive Chairman on February 6, 2015. Rob Mather, Founder and CEO and Peter Sherratt, Executive Chairman on September 9, 2015. Rob Mather, Founder and CEO and Peter Sherratt, Executive Chairman on October 15 and October 22, 2015. Rob Mather, Founder and CEO and Peter Sherratt, Executive Chairman on February 11, 2016. Rob Mather, Founder and CEO and Peter Sherratt, Executive Chairman on February 28, 2016. Nelson Coelho, Regional Manager, Malaria Unit, Concern Universal on April 15, 2016. Site visit, Against Malaria Foundation, Greater Accra, Ghana on August 15-18, 2016. National Malaria Control Program staff, Ghana on August 16-18, 2016. ALMA Melanie Renshaw, Chief Technical Advisor on October 16, 2012. Melanie Renshaw, Chief Technical Advisor on October 17, 2013. Melanie Renshaw, Chief Technical Advisor; Co-Chair, Roll Back Malaria Harmonization Working Group on May 23, 2014. Melanie Renshaw, Chief Technical Advisor; Co-Chair, Roll Back Malaria Harmonization Working Group on October 20, 2015. Melanie Renshaw, Chief Technical Advisor, African Leaders Malaria Alliance and Co-Chair, Roll Back Malaria Harmonization Working Group on March 16, 2016. Dr. Melanie Renshaw, Chief Technical Advisor, African Leaders Malaria Alliance and Co-Chair, Roll Back Malaria Partnership Harmonization Working Group on November 2, 2016. APOC (charity review) Dr. Paul Lusamba-Dikassa, Director of APOC, Dr. Grace Fobi, Head of Sustainable Drug Distribution unit at APOC, and Dr. Laurent Yameogo, Coordinator, Office of Programme Director, APOC on April 30, 2012. Donald Bundy, World Bank APOC Coordinator and Bilkiss Dhomun, World Bank APOC Financial Analyst on May 1, 2012. Aprovecho Research Center Mike Hatfield, International Projects Coordinator, and Fred Colgan, Institutional Stoves Program Director on August 31, 2011.Aravind Eye Foundation (review) Donna Campbell, Executive Director, Aravind Eye Foundation on February 10, 2012.Blood:Water Mission (more information) Katherine Andrews, Development Manager and Barak Bruerd, Africa Programs Director on September 14, 2011.CBM (formerly Christian Blind Mission) Dr. Babar Qureshi, Director of Neglected Tropical Diseases and Senior Medical Advisor, and Andrea Brandt von Lindau, Trachoma and Eye Health Programme Officer on February 1, 2016. Center for Global Development Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow on November 13, 2013. Kimberly Elliott, Senior Fellow on November 13, 2013. Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow on December 13, 2013. Centre for Global Health Research Prabat Jha, Director, on September 30, 2008.  

Centre for HIV and AIDS Prevention Studies (CHAPS) Dr. Dirk Taljaard, co-CEO of the Centre for HIV and AIDS Prevention Studies (CHAPS), co-investigator of the 2005 Orange Farm Medical Male Circumcision study on March 22, 2016. Dr. Dirk Taljaard, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, and Genevieve Dean, Research Officer on August 17, 2016. Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases  Moses Bockarie, Director on March 26, 2012.Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention Professor Michael Eddleston, Professor of Clinical Toxicology, Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics Unit, University/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, and Dr. Leah Utyasheva, Human Rights Expert, RUSMPI – Institute on Migration Policy on May 3, 2017. Charity Science: Health Joey Savoie, Co-Founder on July 20, 2016. Joey Savoie, Co-Founder on January 26, 2017. Charity: Water Scott Harrison (CEO), Nat Paynter (Director of Water Programs), and Michael Letta (Director of Finance), on April 13, 2012. Scott Harrison (CEO), Nat Paynter (Director of Water Programs), and Michael Letta (Director of Finance), on July 17th, 2012. Additional information in Appendix A. Children Without Worms (charity review) David Addiss, Director, Children Without Worms; Akudo Anyanwu, Director of Partnerships, Children Without Worms; Alex Jones, Deputy Director for Management and Operations, Children Without Worms; Dan Martins, Interim Chief Financial Officer, Task force for Global Health on March 18, 2015. Development Media International (DMI) (charity review) Roy Head, CEO, and Will Snell, Director of Development, and Cathryn Wood, Public Engagement and Innovation Manager on April 17, 2012. Roy Head, CEO, and Will Snell, Director of Development, and Cathryn Wood, Public Engagement and Innovation Manager on April 24, 2014. Simon Cousens, Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); Staff Member, Child Health on June 2, 2014. Will Snell, Director of Public Engagement & Development on July 31, 2014. Jo Murray, Research Manager and Will Snell, Director of Development on August 11, 2014. Will Snell, Director of Development and Jo Murray, Research Manager on August 15, 2014. Matthew Lavoie, Country Director in Burkina Faso and Bassirou Kagone, Zones Liaison Manager on October 14, 2014. Matthew Lavoie, Country Director in Burkina Faso on October 15, 2014. Matthew Lavoie, Country Director in Burkina Faso; Rita Lamoukri, Research Manager in Burkina Faso; Souleymane Salouka, Senior Researcher in Burkina Faso; and Mireille Belem, Senior Researcher in Burkina Faso on October 17, 2014. Simon Cousens, Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); Staff Member, Child Health on October 28, 2014. Roy Head, CEO; Jo Murray, Research Manager; and Will Snell, Director of Development on February 12, 2015. Roy Head, CEO; Jo Murray, Research Manager; and Will Snell, Director of Development on May 13, 2015. Roy Head, Chief Executive Officer, and Will Snell, Director of Strategy and Operations on June 16, 2015. Roy Head, Chief Executive Officer, and Will Snell, Director of Strategy & Development on September 8, 2015. Dr. Jo Murray, Research Manager, and Will Snell, Director of Strategy & Development on September 15, 2015. Roy Head, Chief Executive Officer, and Will Snell, Director of Strategy and Operations on March 2, 2016. Roy Head, Chief Executive Officer; Dr. Jo Murray, Head of Research; and Will Snell, Director of Strategy and Development on October 18, 2016. Deworm the World Initiative (DtWI), led by Evidence Action  (charity review) Alissa Fishbane, Deputy Director on June 17, 2010. Alissa Fishbane, Managing Director on April 23, 2012. Alissa Fishbane, Managing Director on November 2, 2012. Site visit, Deworm the World, Kenya November 10, 2012 Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action, and Karen Levy, Regional Director, Africa on May 14, 2013. Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action, Deworm the World on June 4, 2013. Grace Hollister, Associate Director, Global Operations & Analysis on June 19, 2013. Jack Colford, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley and Ben Arnold, Epidemiologist, Colford Research Group, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley on September 16, 2013. Site Visit, Deworm the World Initiative; Rajasthan, India October 2013. Conversation with government officials during site visit; Rajasthan, India  October 2013. Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action, Deworm the World on December 20, 2013. Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action, Deworm the World on February 18, 2014. Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action, and Grace Hollister, Director, Deworm the World Initiative on February 26 and March 17, 2014. Grace Hollister, Director, Deworm the World Initiative  on June 24, 2014.  Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action on September 4, 2014. Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action, and Jessica Harrison, Associate Director, Deworm the World Initiative on November 4, 2014. Grace Hollister, Director, Deworm the World Initiative on February 24, 2015. Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action, and Grace Hollister, Director, Deworm the World Initiative, Evidence Action on March 30, 2015. Grace Hollister, Director, Deworm the World Initiative on September 21 and October 1, 2015. Dispensers for Safe Water (DSW), led by Evidence Action (more information) Eric Kouskalis, Program Director; Evan Green-Lowe, Research and Evaluations Manager; Peter Mwaura, Program Operations Manager Site visit from November 8-9, 2012.  Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action, and Christina Riechers, Director of Business Development and Strategy, Evidence Action  on July 24, 2014. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) (charity review) Jennifer Tierney, Development Director, and Jason Cone, Communications Director on September 26, 2011. Site visit, MSF Belguim; Malawi on October 26, 2011. Jennifer Tierney, Development Director on March 8, 2012.Durham University, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Steve Lindsay, Professor on November 2, 2012.Ebola Anders Nordström, Advisor to the UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Ebola and Ambassador for Global Health, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs on December 9, 2014.Edesia Global Nutrition Solutions Marie Wisecup, Communications Manager on August 9, 2011.END Fund Ellen Agler, Chief Executive Officer, Warren Lancaster, Senior Vice President of Programs, and Sarah Marchal Murray, Senior Vice President of External Relations on February 25, 2015. Ellen Agler, Chief Executive Officer, and Sarah Marchal Murray, Chief Operating Officer on July 30, 2015. Ellen Agler, Chief Executive Officer; Sarah Marchal Murray, Chief Operating Officer; and Warren Lancaster, Senior Vice President, Programs on October 7, 2016. Ellen Agler, Chief Executive Officer; Sarah Marchal Murray, Chief Operating Officer; and Abbey Turtinen, Associate, External Relations on October 17, 2016. Site visit, END Fund, Kigali, Rwanda and Idjwi, Democratic Republic of the Congo on January 30-February 2, 2017. Ellen Agler, Chief Executive Officer; Warren Lancaster, Senior Vice President, Programs; Abbey Turtinen, Associate Director, External Relations; and Alessia Frisoli, Associate on February 3 and 17, 2017. Episcopal Relief & Development's NetsforLife® program Esther Cohen, Chief Operating Officer, Episcopal Relief & Development, and Abagail Nelson, Senior Vice President, Programs, Episcopal Relief & Development on March 31, 2015. Samuel Asiedu Agyei, Research and Evaluations Officer, Programs, Episcopal Relief & Development, and Gifty Tetteh, Strategic Outreach Officer, Episcopal Relief & Development on May 4, 2015. Evidence Action, Other Mushfiq Mobarak on November 8, 2012. Alix Zwane and Mushfiq Mobarak on April 18, 2014. Alix Zwane and Mushfiq Mobarak on January 22, 2015. Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action on February 3, 2015. Mushfiq Mobarak, Member, Board of Advisors, Evidence Action and Professor, Yale University; and Karen Levy, Director, Global Innovation, Evidence Action Beta on October 2015. Karen Levy, Director, Global Innovation, Evidence Action on February 4, 2016. Jeff Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Evidence Action, and Karen Levy, Director, Global Innovation, Evidence Action on February 26, 2016. Karen Levy, Director, Global Innovation and Guillaume Kroll, Project Manager, Beta on August 2, 2016. Kanika Bahl, Interim CEO; Laliteswar Kumar, Director, Africa Region; Steve Denne, Chief Operating Officer; and Leann Bankoski, Senior Manager, Africa Region on February 10 and 13, 2017. Food Fortification Initiative Scott Montgomery, Director on March 2, 2016. The Fred Hollows Foundation Kirsten Armstrong, Global Lead, Development Effectiveness, and Kate Proud, Program Officer, Monitoring & Evaluation on March 3, 2016. GAVI Alliance (charity review) Seth Berkley, CEO on January 12, 2012. David Ferreira and Alex Palacios, Managing Director for Innovative Finance and Special Representative on February 2, 2012. Alex Palacios, Special Representative on February 14, 2012. Mercy Ahun, Special Representative, GAVI Eligible Countries, and Alex Palacios, Special Representative on March 30, 2012. Alan Brooks, Senior Policy Specialist on August 13, 2012. Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) (charity review) Marc Van Ameringen, Executive Director, Greg S. Garrett, Director of Large-Scale Food Fortification, and Matt Freeman, Senior Manager - Investment and Partnerships on June 5, 2012. Greg S. Garrett, Director of Large-Scale Food Fortification, and Matt Freeman, Senior Manager - Investment and Partnerships on July 18, 2012. Greg S. Garrett, Director of Large-Scale Food Fortification; Board Member, International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders Global Network on March 11, 2014. Greg S. Garrett, Director, Large-Scale Food Fortification; Board Member, International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders Global Network on April 30, 2014. Greg S. Garrett, Director, Large-Scale Food Fortification; Board Member, International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders Global Network, and Rizwan Yusufali, Manager, Universal Salt Iodization Programs on May 19, 2014. Rizwan Yusufali, Manager, Universal Salt Iodization Programs on June 19, 2014. Greg S. Garrett, Director, Large-Scale Food Fortification; Board Member, International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders Global Network, and Karen Ziffer, Director, US Office, Gain on July 30, 2014. Greg S. Garrett, Director, Large-Scale Food Fortification on February 3, 2015. Dr. Rajan Sankar, Regional Representative for South Asia, and Dr. Arijit Chakrabarty, Regional Associate on March 12 and 31, 2015. Alem Abay, Country Manager, Ethiopia on April 14, 2015. Greg S. Garrett, Director, Large Scale Food Fortification, and Karen Ziffer, Director, U.S. Office on April 20, 2015. Greg Garrett, Director, Large-Scale Food Fortification, Karen Ziffer, Director, US Office, and Alem Abay, Ethiopia Country Manager on June 9, 2015. Greg Garrett, Director, Large-Scale Food Fortification, and Alem Abay, Country Manger, Ethiopia from July 8 to 11, 2015. Greg S. Garrett, Director, Large-Scale Food Fortification on September 30, 2016. The Global Fund Dr. Sussann Nasr, Disease Advisor, Malaria, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and David Canarutto, Portfolio Manager, Relationships, Private Sector Engagement Department on January 20, 2016. Dr. Scott Filler, Senior Disease Coordinator, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on October 19, 2016. Global Malaria Programme Robert Newman, Director on October 18, 2012. Global Health Group at UCSF Allison Phillips and Sir Richard Feachem in June 2012.Institute for Disease Modeling Anna Bershteyn, Institute for Disease Modeling on July 17, 2014. International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) Professor Clare Gilbert, Professor of International Eye Health and Co-Director of ICEH, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Dr. Hannah Kuper, Co-Director of the International Centre for Evidence in Disability and Reader of Epidemiology, LSHTM on January 14, 2016. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Amy Dietterich, GAVI Civil Society Organization Constituency Officer on June 29, 2012. Marcy Erskine, Senior Health Officer, Malaria on September 18, 2013. Intelligence and Iodine Supplementation Jelte Wicherts, Associate Professor, Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University on August 28, 2014. James Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Political Studies and Psychology, University of Otago, New Zealand on October 17, 2014. Iodine Global Network (IGN), formerly ICCIDD (charity review) Michael Zimmermann, Executive Director on May 9, 2012. Michael Zimmermann, Executive Director on January 9, 2014. Michael Zimmermann, Executive Director on January 21, 2014. Michael Zimmermann, Executive Director on February 11, 2014. Greg S. Garrett, Board Member; Director, Large-Scale Food Fortification, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) on March 11, 2014. Michael Zimmermann, Executive Director; Maria Andersson, Secretary; Jonathan Gorstein, Clinical Associate Professor of Global Health, University of Washington and Senior Advisor, ICCIDD on April 29, 2014. Greg S. Garrett, Board Member; Director, Large-Scale Food Fortification, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) on April 30, 2014. Michael Zimmermann, Executive Director and Jonathan Gorstein, Global Coordinator, GAIN-UNICEF Universal Salt Iodization Partnership Project and Senior Advisor, ICCIDD on April 30, 2014. Venkatesh Mannar, Board Member; former President, Micronutrient Initiative on April 30, 2014. Arnold Timmer, Board Member; Senior Adviser, Micronutrients Unit, UNICEF Nutrition Section on May 1, 2014. Michael Zimmermann, Executive Director and Jonathan Gorstein, Senior Advisor and Clinical Associate Professor of global Health, University of Washington on May 1 and 2, 2014. Michael Zimmermann, Executive Director on August 19, 2014. Chandra Pandav, Regional Coordinator of South South Asia (IGN); Professor and Head of the Centre for Community Medicine, The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on September 2, 2014. Gregory Gerasimov, Regional Coordinator, IGN; consultant, UNICEF and GAIN on September 3, 2014. Izzeldin Hussein, Regional Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, IGN on September 5, 2014. Michael Zimmermann, Chairman on February 11, 2015. Dr. Michael Zimmerman, Chairman on April 28, 2015. Dr. Michael Zimmerman, Chairman, and Dr. Jonathan Gorstein, Executive Director on May 11, 2015. Dr. Michael Zimmermann, Chairman, and Dr. Jonathan Gorstein, Executive Director on June 22, 2015. Dr. Michael Zimmermann, Chair of the Board, IGN, and Dr. Jonathan Gorstein, Executive Director, IGN on October 2, 2015. Jonathan Gorstein, PhD, Executive Director, and Michael Zimmermann, PhD, Chair of the Board on September 21, 2016. Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Rachel Glennerster, Executive Director, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL); Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action; John Floretta, Deputy Director, J-PAL South Asia on December 22, 2014. Iqbal Dhaliwal, Deputy Director, J-PAL and Claire Walsh, Policy Manager, J-PAL on February 12, 2016. Thomas Chupein, Senior Policy Manager, and Ariella Park, Senior Policy Associate, J-PAL on May 1, 2017. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Hilary Ranson, Professor of Medical Entomology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine on March 18, 2016. Living Goods (charity review) Chuck Slaughter, Founder and CEO, and Chris Murphy, Director of Marketing and Development on July 20, 2012.  Chuck Slaughter, Founder and CEO  on May 5, 2014. Dr. Jakob Svensson, Professor, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, and Chuck Slaughter, Founder and CEO, Living Goods on July 31, 2014. Site visit, Living Goods, Uganda on October 22-24, 2014. Lisa McCandless, Director of Business Development, Molly Christiansen, Director of Advocacy and Impact, and Brad Presner, Director of Analytics on March 23, 2015. Lisa McCandless, Director of Business Development, Molly Christiansen, Director of Advocacy and Impact, and Brad Presner, Director of Analytics on August 20, 2015. Lisa McCandless, Director of Business Development, and Molly Christiansen, Director of Impact and Advocacy on July 7, 2016. Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Professor Sir Brian Greenwood, Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on January 4, 2017. Malaria Consortium Diana Thomas, Senior Communications Manager on May 31, 2012. Dr. Ebenezer Sheshi Baba, Africa Technical Director, and Madeleine Marasciulo, Head of US Business Development and Global Case Management Specialist on November 9, 2016. Diego Moroso, Regional Project Director, ACCESS-SMC, Malaria Consortium, and Maddy Marasciulo, Head U.S. Business Development and Global Case Management Specialist, Malaria Consortium on January 18, 2017. Dr. Ebenezer Baba, Africa Technical Director, and Madeleine Marasciulo, Case Management Specialist on January 19, 2017. Charles Nelson, Chief Executive; Dr. Kolawole Maxwell, Country Director, Nigeria; and Maddy Marasciulo, U.S. Business Development Lead and Global Case Management Specialist on March 24, 2017. MANA Nutritive Aid Products David Todd Harmon, Chief of Staff and Jennifer Humphrey, Finance Director on August 9, 2011. 

Measles and Rubella Initiative Peter Strebel, World Health Organization Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals; Andrea Gay, United Nations Foundation Executive Director of Children's Health; and Steve Cochi, CDC Center for Global Health Senior Advisor to the Director on April 18, 2012. Andrea Gay, United Nations Foundation Executive Director of Children's Health and Steve Cochi, CDC Center for Global Health Senior Advisor to the Director on May 22, 2012. Steve Cochi, Senior Advisor, Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Elesha Kingshott, Global Health Officer, United Nations Foundation on January 12, 2016. Media Impact Sean Southey, Executive Director and Lindsey Wahlstrom, Communications Officer on July 28, 2011.Micronutrient Initiative Venkatesh Mannar, President and Chris Dendys, Director of External Relations on September 15, 2011. Venkatesh Mannar, former President; Board Member, Iodine Global Network on April 30, 2014.Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Prevention Neal Halsey, Professor of International Health and Director of the INstitute for Vaccine Safety, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on January 13, 2015. Natural History Museum, London Dr. Judd Walson, Principal Investigator, DeWorm3, Natural History Museum, London, and John Jackson, Head of Science Policy and Communication, Natural History Museum, London on February 24, 2016. Nothing But Nets (charity review) Amy Jensen, Senior Associate on August 22, 2011.Nyaya Health (charity review) Ryan Schwarz, Director of Operations on February 17, 2011. Duncan Maru, Co-Founder and President on March 17, 2011.Operation ASHA (charity review) Shelly Batra, President on February 28, 2011. Shelly Batra, President and Sandeep Ahuja, CEO on March 17, 2011. Nick Gordon, Operation Asha Biometrics System (eDOTS) Development Manager on October 27, 2011. Site Visit, Operation Asha; Delhi, India on October 25-October 31, 2011. Operation Fistula Seth Cochran, Founder and CEO on May 3, 2016. Partners in Health (PIH) (charity review) Site Visit, Partners in Health; Neno, Malawi on October 24-25, 2011. Paul Zintl, Chief Operating Officer; Lisa Hirschhorn, Director of Monitoring Evaluation and Quality; Susan Sayers, Chief Development Officer; and Angela Letizia, Senior Manager, Corporate and Foundation Relations on July 12, 2012.PATH (charity review) Sally Ethelston, Director, Communications and Advocacy on April 14, 2011. Notes from visit to PATH's offices in Seattle, September 21, 2011. Population Media Center Bill Rider, Finance Director, and Paul Ugalde, Director of Development on July 19, 2011. Kriss Barker, Vice President for International Programs on October 31, 2014. [Attachment] Possible Mark Arnoldy, Chief Executive Officer, Possible on March 31, 2015. The Power of Nutrition Martin Short, Chief Executive Officer, The Power of Nutrition and Charles Bleehen, Director, The Power of Nutrition on January 25, 2016. Martin Short, Chief Executive Officer; David Eastman, Associate Director, Measurement and Evaluation; Maddie Cleland, Associate Director, Investments; and Jack Castle, Associate Director, Investments on September 8, 2016. Project Healthy Children/Sanku Laura Rowe, Chief Operating Officer on February 19, 2015. Laura Rowe, President and Chief Operating Officer, and David Dodson, Co-Founder on September 27, 2016. David Dodson, Co-Founder on March 8, 2017. PSI (charity review) Dana Ward, PSI India Managing Director on October 21, 2010. Angus Spiers, Deputy Director Malaria Control (in Nairobi) joined by Tom Kanyok, Senior Program Officer, Field Studies at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Jenna Brereton, Consultant to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Geneva Global) on May 31, 2012. Christopher White, Malaria Technical Advisor, PSI/Myanmar, joined by Tom Kanyok, Senior Program Officer, Field Studies at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Jenna Brereton, Consultant to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Geneva Global) on June 18, 2012. Christopher White, Malaria Technical Advisor, PSI/Myanmar on September 12, 2012. Desmond Chavasse, Senior Vice President, Malaria Control and Child Survival on February 18, 2014. Marshall Stowell, Vice President, External Relations and Communications; Dr. Nina Hasen, Director, HIV and TB Programs; and Dr. Kim Longfield, Director, Strategic Research & Evaluation on August 31, 2016. Results for Development Kanika Bahl, Managing Director, Results for Development; Cammie Lee, Senior Program Officer, Results for Development; Thayer Rosenberg, Senior Program Associate, Results for Development on January 27, 2016. Kanika Bahl, Managing Director, Results for Development; Cammie Lee, Senior Program Officer, Results for Development; Thayer Rosenberg, Senior Program Associate, Results for Development; Aileen Palmer, Senior Program Associate, Results for Development on February 19, 2016. Kanika Bahl, Jean Arkedis, Cammie Lee, Aalia Chatur, Stephanie Ahn, Nisal Liyanaarachchi, Aileen Palmer, and Nabila Hemed on September 29, 2016. Cammie Lee, Program Director, Results for Development, and Kanika Bahl, Chief Executive Officer, Evidence Action, and Former Managing Director, Results for Development on April 27, 2017. ReSurge International (formerly Interplast) (charity review) Scott Corlew, Chief Medical Officer on June 2, 2009.Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) (charity review) Alan Fenwick, Director on June 17, 2010. Site Visit, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative; Lilongwe, Malawi on October 18, 2011. Dr. Wendy Harrison, Managing Director and Dr. Sarah Knowles, Biostatistician on April 9 and 14, 2014. Dr. Anna Phillips, Senior Program Manager on May 27, 2014. Giuseppina Ortu, Senior Program Manager, Francophone Countries on June 20, 2014. Yolisa Nalule, Programme Manager, Tanzania & Uganda on October 14, 2014. Michael French, Programme Manager, Ethiopia & Yemen, Operational Researcher on October 15, 2014. Sarah Nogaro, Programme Manager, Côte d'Ivoire & Democratic Republic of the Congo, SCI on October 16, 2014. Lynsey Blair, Senior Project Manager on October 16, 2014. Oumer Shafi, Neglected Tropical Diseases Program Manager, Ethiopia Federal Ministry of Health on November 4, 2014. Fiona Fleming, Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, SCI, and Daniel Gastfriend, Associate, IDinsight on April 2, 2015. Alan Fenwick, Director and Blandine Labry, Finance and Operations Manager on April 27, 2015. Alan Fenwick, Director on July 31, 2015. Wendy Harrison, Managing Director, and Najwa Al Abdallah, Finance and Operations Manager on September 8, 2015. Alan Fenwick, Director, and Najwa Al Abdallah, Finance and Operations Manager on September 14, 2015. Alan Fenwick, Director, and Wendy Harrison, Deputy Director on October 2, 2015. Blandine Labry, former Finance and Operations Manager on December 15, 2015. Dr. Wendy Harrison, Managing Director, and Najwa Al Abdallah, Finance & Operations Director on February 17, 2016. Najwa Al Abdallah, Dr. Wendy Harrison, and Alan Fenwick representing SCI, and Ruth Tipples, Departmental Administrator, Imperial College London on March 17, 2016. Dr. Wendy Harrison, Managing Director; Najwa Al Abdallah, Finance & Operations Senior Manager; and Dr. Lynsey Blair, Senior Project Manager on April 6, 2016. Note: Before July 2013, we did not generally aim to publish notes from our conversations with top charities, because we expected to incorporate the information learned into our other published materials on the charities. As of July 2013, we have changed this approach and will now aim to publish notes from all substantive conversations with top charities.

 Seva Foundation Dr. Suzanne Gilbert, Senior Director, Innovation & Sight Program; Dr. Chundak Tenzing, Medical Director, Innovation & Sight Program; Heidi Chase, Associate Director, Innovation & Sight Program on January 13, 2016. Sightsavers Katie Cotton, Director of Major Giving; Susan Walker, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Technical Advisor; Julia Strong, International Foudnations Executive on February 26, 2015. Simon Bush, Director of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs); Katie Cotton, Director of Major Giving; Susan Walker, NTD Technical Advisor; Julia Strong, International Foundations Executive on March 19, 2015. Simon Bush, Director of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs); Elizabeth Elhassan, Technical Director of NTDs; Tim Finn, NTDs Technical Advisor; Mike Straney, Director of Major Giving; and Julia Strong, Trusts Manager on April 5, 2016. Julia Strong, Trusts Manager; Dr. Imran Khan, Chief Global Technical Lead (Programme Development & Innovations); and Mike Straney, Director of Major Giving on April 14, 2016. Site visit, Sightsavers, Accra, Ghana on August 14, 2016. Julia Strong, International Foundations Manager; Dr. Caroline Harper, Chief Executive Officer; Simon Bush, Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases; and Tim Finn, Neglected Tropical Diseases Technical Advisor on October 2, 2016. Julia Strong, International Foundations Manager; Dr. Imran Khan, Chief Global Technical Lead; Mike Straney, Director of Major Giving; and Morna Lane, Head of Major Donors & Trusts on May 15, 2017. Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Christian Lengeler, August 21, 2012. Christian Lengeler, Head of Health Interventions Unit on August 20, 2015. Task Force for Global Health, Lymphatic Filariasis Support Center Eric Ottesen, Director of the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Center on April 24, 2012. TB REACH Suvanand Sahu, Team Leader, and Jacob Creswell, Technical Officer on March 5, 2012. Tropical Health LLP Dr. Albert Kilian, Co-Founder and Technical Director on February 26,2014.  UNICEF Jos Vandelaer, Chief of Immunization on May 25, 2012. Rownak Khan, Senior Health Specialist on June 22, 2012 regarding maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination Arnold Timmer, Senior Advisor, Micronutrients on June 15, 2012. Renee Van de Weerdt, Chief Child Health and Emergency Response, and Valentina Buj, Malaria Specialist on June 29, 2012. Vilma Tyler, Nutrition Specialist, Health & Nutrition, UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS on July 17, 2012. Valentina Buj, Malaria Health Specialist, and Bette Scott, Partnerships Manager on August 15, 2012. Arnold Timmer, Senior Adviser Micronutrients on October 12, 2012. Linda Naugle, Director, Northwest Region, U.S. Fund for UNICEF on May 29, 2013 (attachment). Michael Grudzinski, Program Officer, U.S. Fund for UNICEF on June 19, 2013. Arnold Timmer,Senior Adviser, Micronutrients Unit, UNICEF Nutrition Section; Board Member, Iodine Global Network on May 1, 2014. Rownak Khan, Senior Health Specialist, UNICEF; Linda Naugle, Director of the Northwest Region, U.S. Fund for UNICEF; Kristen Mangelinkx, Vice President for Regional Fundraising, U.S. Fund for UNICEF; and Michael Grudzinski, Assistant Director of the Eliminate Project, U.S. Fund for UNICEF  on June 11, 2014. Arnold Timmer, Chief of Nutrition Programmes, UNICEF Ethiopia, and Tesfaye Chuko, Nutrition Officer, UNICEF Ethiopia on July 6, 2015. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of TB Eliminiation Peter Cegielski, MD, MPH on November 2, 2011. USAID Mozambique Karin Turner, Deputy Director Health Systems on April 12, 2012 regarding vaccination in northern Mozambique. Vestergaard Patrick Sieyes, Regional Director, Head of Africa and Middle East, and Caroline Desrousseaux, Global Accounts Manager on January 12, 2017. Vitamin Angels Amy Steets, Senior Program Manager on May 24, 2013.VillageReach Site Visit, Village Reach; Malawi on October 20-21, 2011. World Health Organization Richard Cibulskis, World Malaria Report co-author on January 10, 2012. Manuel Novela, World Health Organization EPI Specialist, Mozambique on March 19, 2012 (regarding VillageReach's pilot project in Cabo Delgado). Abraham Mnzava, Coordinator, Malaria Vector Control Unit, Global Malaria Programme, Geneva, Switzerland on October 18, 2013. Anthony Solomon, Medical Officer, Trachoma and Chief Scientist, Global Trachoma Mapping Project on July 23, 2015. Other Anil Soni, former CEO of Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) on October 18, 2012. Dr. Alan Lopez, Melbourne Laureate Professor and Rowden-White Chair of Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement in the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne in Australia on November 18, 2013. Dr. Stefano Bertozzi, Dean and Professor of Health Policy & Management, UC Berkeley School of Public Health on November 20, 2013. Vikram Patel, Joint Director, Centre for Global Mental Health and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK); Co-founder, Sangath, India; Director, Centre for Mental Health, Public Health Foundation of India on December 12, 2013. Richard Sullivan, MD, PhD, Professor of Cancer Policy & Global Health at Kings College London, Director of the Kings Institute of Cancer Policy on January 8, 2014. Dr. Dermot Maher, International Portfolio Manager, The Wellcome Trust on February 3, 2014. Sir Richard Peto and Dr. Simon Read, University of Oxford on April 10, 2014. Alexander Aiken and Calum Davey, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Paul Garner, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; and David Taylor-Robinson, University of Liverpool on February 26, 2016. Dr. Marcy Erskine, International Federation of the Red Cross, and Dr. Melanie Renshaw, African Leaders Malaria Alliance on April 18, 2016. Dr. Marcy Erskine, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Alliance for Malaria Prevention, and Dr. Melanie Renshaw, African Leaders Malaria Alliance and Roll Back Malaria Partnership Harmonization Working Group on October 11, 2016. Dr. Immo Kleinschmidt, Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on May 25, 2017. Family planning and reproductive health The Hewlett Foundation Ruth Levine, Helena Choi, and Margot Fahnestock, Global Development and Population Program on July 15, 2013. Microfinance Al Majmoua (charity review) Alia Farhat, Business Development Manager on July 13, 2010.CEPRODEL (charity review) Rigoberto Hernandez, Senior Analyst on July 20, 2010.Chamroeun (charity review) Grégoire Héaulme, Chairman of the Board of Directors on June 1, 2010.Center for Global Development David Roodman on August 27, 2009.CUMO (charity review) Samson Hailu, Chair of the Board of Directors on June 1, 2010. Ezikiel Phiri, CEO on August 5, 2010. Enda Inter-Arabe (Mix Market profile at http://www.mixmarket.org/mfi/enda) Michael Cracknell, General Secretary on July 27, 2010. First MicroFinanceBank (FMFB) (charity review) Amir Hussain, Head of Social Performance Research and Special Projects on June 7, 2010. Fonkoze (Mix Market profile at http://www.mixmarket.org/mfi/fonkoze) Anne Hastings, CEO on April 27, 2010. James Kurz, Financial Analyst on May 12, 2010. Natalie Domond, Director of Social Impact Monitoring on May 25, 2010. Freedom from Hunger (charity review) Chris Dunford, CEO on February 22, 2011. Fundación Paraguaya (charity review) Luis Fernando Sanabria, General Manager on June 8, 2010. Grameen Foundation (charity review) Rachelle Jacobson, Development Associate and Jill Chen, Acting Director, Capital Management and Advisory Center on October 7, 2009. MicroDreams (charity review) Greg Casagrande, Managing Director on June 18, 2010. Spark MicroGrants Sasha Fisher, Executive Director on February 19, 2013. Other developing world economic empowerment Africa Growth Initiative Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Senior Fellow and Director on July 2, 2013. COMACO (charity review) Dale Lewis, CEO on May 25, 2010. GiveDirectly (charity review) Paul Niehaus and Michael Faye, Directors on October 6, 2012. Site visit, GiveDirectly, Western Kenya on November 6-8, 2012. Paul Niehaus, Director, and Joy Sun, Director of Strategic Initiatives on July 18, 2013. [Attachment] Paul Niehaus, Director, and Joy Sun, Director of Strategic Initiatives on August 27, 2013. [Attachment (PPTX)] Paul Niehaus, Co-Founder and President  on December 7, 2013. Paul Niehaus, Co-Founder and President, Joy Sun, Chief Operating Officer, Domestic, Piali Mukhopadhyay, Chief Operating Officer, International, and Carolina Toth, Kenya Field Director on April 8, 2014. [Attachment (PDF)] Paul Niehaus, Co-Founder and President, Joy Sun, Chief Operating Officer, Domestic, Piali Mukhopadhyay, Chief Operating Officer, International, and Carolina Toth, Kenya Field Director on July 7, 2014. [Attachment (PDF)] Carolina Toth, Kenya Field Director on July 24, 2014. Paul Niehaus, Director and President on September 5, 2014. Carolina Toth, Manager of People and Partnerships on October 1, 2014. Paul Niehaus, Director and President, and Carolina Toth, Manager of People and Partnerships on October 6, 2014. Site visit, GiveDirectly, Uganda on October 20-21, 2014. GiveDirectly field officers on October 20-21, 2014. Piali Mukhopadhyay, COO, International on October 20-21, 2014. Stuart Skeates, Uganda Field Director on October 20-21, 2014. Carolina Toth, Fundraising and Operations, and Paul Niehaus, Co-Founder and President on February 5, 2015. Carolina Toth, Manager, Fundraising and Operations on February 20, 2015. [Attachment (PDF)] Paul Niehaus, Co-Founder and President, and Carolina Toth, Interim Vice President of Fundraising and Operations on May 28, 2015. [Attachment (PDF)] Paul Niehaus, Co-Founder and President, and Carolina Toth, Interim Vice President of Fundraising and Operations on September 7, 2015. Dr. Paul Niehaus, Co-Founder and President; Ian Bassin, Chief Operating Officer (Domestic); and Carolina Toth, Finance and Operations Manager on February 23, 2016. Dr. Paul Niehaus, Co-Founder and President; Carolina Toth, Finance and Operations Manager; and Ian Bassin, Chief Operating Officer, Domestic on August 12, 2016. Ian Bassin, Chief Operations Officer, Domestic and Piali Mukhopadhyay, Chief Operations Officer, International on August 23, 2016. Matt Johnson, Chief Marketing Officer on February 27, 2017. Dr. Michael Cooke, Research Director on April 17, 2017. International Development Enterprises (IDE) (charity review) Stuart Taylor, Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator on June 16, 2011.IDE India (charity review) Suresh Subramanian, COO on March 11, 2011. KickStart Genevieve Porter, Development Associate/Assistant to the CEO on July 21, 2011. Martin Fisher, Co-Founder and CEO on September 4, 2014. Kupanda Capital Bobby Pittman, Founder on July 3, 2013. Labor Mobility Michael Wishnie, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law and Deputy Dean for Experiential Education, Yale Law School on July 13, 2014. A conversation with staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development on November 14, 2014. Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development on January 21, 2015. David Bier, Immigration Policy Analyst, Niskanen Center on June 5, 2015. A conversation with staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development on June 23, 2015. Migration Policy Institute Kathleen Newland, Co-Founder on April 2, 2014. Marc Rosenblum, Deputy Director, U.S. Immigration Policy Program on February 2, 2015 Migration Scholars Lant Pritchett on June 18, 2012. Michael Clemens on February 20, 2013. Michael Clemens on November 13, 2013. Michael Clemens on April 21, 2014. Dr. Martin Ruhs on April 23, 2014. New Incentives Svetha Janumpalli, Founder and CEO on December 13, 2012. Svetha Janumpalli, Founder and CEO, and Patrick Stadler, Chief Strategy Officer, New Incentives; Mark Lampert, Founder, and Katherine Clements, Director, Lampert Family Foundation on January 30, 2015. Svetha Janumpalli, Founder and CEO, and Patrick Stadler, Chief Strategy Officer, New Incentives; Mark Lampert, Founder, and Katherine Clements, Director, Lampert Family Foundation on February 26, 2015. Svetha Janumpalli, Founder and CEO, and Patrick Stadler, Chief Strategy Officer, New Incentives; Katherine Clements, Director, Lampert Family Foundation on September 3, 2015. Svetha Janumpalli, Founder and CEO, and Patrick Stadler, Chief Strategy Officer, New Incentives; Katherine Clements, Director, Lampert Family Foundation on December 11, 2015. Svetha Janumpalli, Founder and CEO, and Patrick Stadler, Chief Strategy Officer, New Incentives; Katherine Clements, Director, Lampert Family Foundation on February 5, 2016. Svetha Janumpalli, Founder and CEO, and Patrick Stadler, Chief Strategy Officer, New Incentives on March 9, 2016. Svetha Janumpalli, Founder and CEO, and Pratyush Agarwal, Board Member, New Incentives on April 14, 2016. Svetha Janumpalli, Founder and CEO; Patrick Stadler, Chief Strategy Officer; and Pratyush Agarwal, Board Member, New Incentives on August 26, 2016. Svetha Janumpalli, Founder and CEO, and Patrick Stadler, Chief Strategy Officer on December 16, 2016. Root Capital (charity review) Willy Foote, CEO on September 16, 2011. TechnoServe (charity review) TechnoServe representative in April 2009. William Warshauer, President and CEO; Dr. Simon Winter, Senior Vice President, Development; and Katherine Scaife Diaz, Senior Manager, Corporate Management on August 11, 2016. Trickle Up Bill Abrams, President, and Jo Sanson, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation on March 7, 2011. Village Enterprise Jennifer Nixon, Senior Director of Development on August 10, 2011. Vipani (charity review) Thomas George, President and Founder on October 29, 2009.VisionSpring (charity review) VisionSpring representative in May 2009. Jordan Kassalow, Founder and CEO, Liz Smith, Director of Business Development, and Jessica Schwartz, Business Development Associate on July 19, 2012. The World Bank David McKenzie, Lead Economist, Development Research Group on October 25, 2012. Dilip Ratha, Manager and Lead Economist, Migration and Remittances Unit; CEO, Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD), and Sonia Plaza, Senior Economist, Migration and Remittances Unit on July 24, 2013. Other African Development Bank Alex Rugamba, Director for Regional Integration and Trade, and Angela Nalikka, Chief Investment Officer on July 30, 2013. Blood & Milk Alanna Shaikh, Author on March 10, 2009. Full audio available here.  Center for Global Development Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, and Kate McQueston, Program Coordinator on April 10, 2013. Todd Moss, Vice President for Programs and Senior Fellow on May 7, 2013. Vijaya Ramachandran, Senior Fellow on June 4, 2013. Owen Barder, Senior Fellow and Director for Europe, Center for Global Development on July 24, 2013. Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow on August 27, 2013. Ben Leo, Senior Fellow, Director of Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Program on September 3, 2013. Centre for Policy Research, India Avani Kapur, Senior Research and Program Analyst, Accountability Initiative on November 26, 2013. Development Innovation Ventures at USAID Michael Kremer, Scientific Director, and Jeffrey Brown, Division Chief on July 25, 2013. D-Prize Nicholas Fusso, Co-Founder and Director, D-Prize on February 16, 2017. Educate! Loren Crary, Director of External Relations and Counsel on January 10, 2017. FIA Foundation T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, Director of Road Safety on September 3, 2013. Folic Acid Supplementation Dr. Joshua Miller, Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University on January 8, 2016. IDinsight Dr. Neil Buddy Shah, Founding Partner on March 30, 2014. Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Annie Duflo, Executive Director, and Sarah de Tournemire, Senior Director of Communications and Development, and Manasee Desai, Research Development Manager on March 17th, 2014. Millions Saved Jessica Gottlieb, Staff Member on May 9, 2009. Full audio available here. Open Society Foundations Richard Mugisha, Program Officer/Country Manager, Uganda, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa on January 29, 2013. Scholars Matthew Bond, Research Associate, Harvard School of Public Health on April 6, 2009. Full audio available here. William Easterly, Professor of Economics, New York University on May 12, 2009. Michael Klein, former Vice President for Financial and Private Sector Development for the World Bank Group on May 9, 2013. Tobias Pfutze, Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute and former Research Assistant for Prof. William Easterly on April 30, 2009. Full audio available here. Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University on April 27, 2009 Full audio available here. Evan Mayo-Wilson, Senior Research Associate, University College London on June 10, 2013. Richard Sullivan, MD, PhD, Professor of Cancer Policy & Global Health at Kings College London, Director of the Kings Institute of Cancer Policy on February 6, 2014. Kevin Croke, post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Global Health and Population on September 25, 2014. Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) Gayle Martin, Senior Economist, World Bank; Program Leader, Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) on July 30, 2014.  World Health Organization Margie Peden, Coordinator, Unintentional Injury Prevention on August 13, 2013. Zusha!, led by gui2de Dr. James Habyarimana, Associate Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, and Dr. William Jack, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University on March 14, 2016. Dr. James Habyarimana, Associate Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University; Dr. William Jack, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University; and Whitney Tate, Program Director, Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation, gui2de on July 7, 2016. Site visit, Zusha!, Nairobi, Kenya on February 2-3, 2017. United States equality of opportunity The Children's Agenda (charity review) Carolyn Lee-Davis, Policy Analyst on September 2, 2010. Danforth R. Ross, Member of the Board of Directors on September 24, 2010. Carolyn Lee-Davis, Policy Analyst on October 26, 2010. DC Central Kitchen Michael Curtin, CEO on August 30, 2010. Harlem Children's Zone (charity review) Harlem Children's Zone representatives on January 18, 2011. Invest in Kids (charity review) Lisa Merlino, Executive Director on July 16, 2010. Lisa Merlino, Executive Director on August 5, 2010. Lisa Merlino, Executive Director on October 19, 2010. National Academy Foundation (charity review) Jessica Stepman, Alumni and Corporate Relations Manager, and Rebecca L. Batterman, Development Assistant on August 10, 2010. Colleen Devery, Assistant Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Administration on August 26, 2010. Colleen Devery, Assistant Vice President, Strategic Initiatives and Administration on October 26, 2010. Nurse-Family Partnership (charity review) Michelle Stapleton, Fund Development Associate on July 21, 2010. Reach Out and Read Alan Mendelsohn, Researcher on March 30, 2011. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  John Lumpkin, Senior Vice President and Director, Health Care Group on September 24, 2013. Meta-research The Cochrane Collaboration Cochrane Collaboration representatives on May 8, 2012. Kay Dickersin, Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Eyes and Vision Review Group, U.S. Satellite on July 9, 2012. Paul Garner, Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Review Group on August 13, 2012. David Tovey, Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Collaboration on August 14, 2012. Jimmy Volmink, Director of the South African Cochrane Center on August 17, 2012. Sally Green, Co-Director of the Australasian Cochrane Center on August 23, 2012. Martin Burton, Director of the UK Cochrane Center on September 6, 2012. David Tovey, Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Collaboration on September 10, 2012. Kay Dickersin, Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Eyes and Vision Review Group, U.S. Satellite on September 14, 2012. Mike Clarke, Co-Founder of the Evidence Aid project on October 26, 2012. Kay Dickersin, Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center on February 19, 2013. Mark Wilson, David Tovey and Kay Dickersin on March 5, 2013. The conversation was centered around a document describing possible areas of support, which Cochrane prepared for GiveWell during February 2013. Mark Wilson, CEO; David Tovey, Editor in Chief; Kathelene Weiss, Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser on April 30, 2015. Cochrane Collaboration-related conversations Steven Goodman, Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Medicine at Stanford University on May 31, 2012. Sue Kinn, Team Leader and Research Manager at the Department for International Development (DFID) on August 21, 2012.  Conversations on natural science meta-research John Ioannidis (Stanford University) on June 11, 2012. David Carr (Wellcome Trust) on June 19, 2012. Ivan Oransky (Retraction Watch) on February 21, 2013. Elizabeth Iorns (Science Exchange) on February 26, 2013. Ken Witwer (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) on February 28, 2013. Ferric Fang (University of Washington) on March 1, 2013. David Madigan (Columbia University) on March 7, 2013. Doug Altman (University of Oxford) and David Moher (University of Ottawa) on March 8, 2013. Joshua Greenberg (The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) on March 13, 2013. Jason Priem (Impact Story) on March 13, 2013. David Jay (Journal Lab) on March 14, 2013. Jane Hunter and Rebecca Lawrence (Faculty of 1000) on March 15, 2013. Stanley Young (National Institute of Statistical Science) on March 18, 2013. Two sets of slides [1], [2] about multiple testing, by Stanley Young. Tom Kenny (Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre) on March 22, 2013. John Wilbanks (Sage Bionetworks) on March 25, 2013. Cameron Neylon (Public Library of Science) on March 26, 2013. William Gunn (Mendeley Ltd.) on April 5, 2013. Kaitlin Thaney (Digital Science) on April 10, 2013. Heather Joseph (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) on May 23, 2013. Elizabeth West (FasterCures) on May 24, 2013. Kevin Dolby (Wellcome Trust) on May 24, 2013. Conversations on social science meta-research Donald Green on June 8, 2012. Lant Pritchett on June 18, 2012. William Easterly on July 18, 2012. Michael Rosenfeld on August 21, 2012. Brian Nosek on October 9, 2012. Vannevar science meta-research group Dario Amodei, Paul Christiano, Nick Conley, David Dalrymple, Yoni Donner, Kristen Fortney, Jacob Steinhardt and Jade Q Wang on December 2, 2012. Other Dan Whaley, Founder, Hypothes.is, on May 8, 2013. [Slides] Maryann Martone, Executive Director, Force11, on May 30, 2013. Dr. Neal lane, – Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and Malcolm Gillis University Professor , Rice University, on April 16, 2014. Funders Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation A conversation about measles: Violaine Mitchell, Interim Director, Country Immunization Programs; Matt Hanson, Program Officer, Country Immunization Programs; Jenna Brereton, Consultant (Geneva Global) on April 27, 2012. A conversation about meningitis A vaccination: Greg Widmyer, Senior Program Officer and Jennifer Alcorn, Program Officer, Global Policy and Advocacy on July 13, 2012. A conversation about vaccination: Violaine Mitchell, Interim Director, Country Immunization Programs on August 20, 2012. A conversation about water, hygiene and sanitation: Sara Rogge and Alix Zwane, Senior Program Officers, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene on September 18, 2012. A conversation about malaria funding and eradication: Alan Magill, Director, Malaria program; David Brandling-Bennett, Senior Advisor, Malaria program; Bruno Moonen, Deputy Director, Malaria program; Alexandra Farnum, Program Officer, Global Program Advocacy; Meg Halverson, Consultant, Global Program Advocacy; Adrienne DiCasparro, Associate Program Officer, Giving Partnerships on February 10, 2014. A conversation about life sciences research: Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco and incoming Chief Executive Officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on April 18, 2014. Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) Colin Buckley (Executive Director of Investments) and Faith Rose (Investments team) on May 30, 2012. Faith Rose and Sasha Zoueva, Investments team  on September 10, 2013. Shirley Rodrigues, Portfolio Manager, Climate Change on September 24, 2013. Faith Rose, Education Sector Team Manager on November 4, 2014. Department for International Development (DFID) (website) Multiple staff members on July 9, 2012. Anna Taylor, Senior Nutrition Adviser (DFID) on July 30, 2012. Jo Mulligan, Research and Evidence Division (DFID) on October 10, 2012. William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (website) Paul Brest in March 2012. Linda Frey on November 19, 2012. Lions Club International Foundation (LCIF) Rebecca Daou, Divisions Manager on September 25, 2012.Omidyar Network (website) Multiple staff members in May 16, 2012. Other Game theory Professor S. Nageeb Ali, Associate Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University on May 9, 2016. Giving What We Can Michelle Hutchinson, Executive Director, and Robert Wiblin, Research Director on June 19, 2013. Kid Risk, Inc. Kimberly Thompson, President and Professor of Preventative Medicine and Global Health, University of Central Florida College of Medicine; Radboud Duintjer Tebbens, Vice President on October 31, 2013. Moral tradeoffs Professor S. Andrew Schroeder, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College on September 13, 2016. Dr. Dean Jamison, Professor Emeritus of Global Health, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and University of Washington, Seattle; Lead Editor, Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition on January 9, 2017. WebCite Gunther Eysenbach on April 10, 2013.   Previously, conversations related to our work on the Open Philanthropy Project were available on this page. The Open Philanthropy Project is now a separate entity from GiveWell, and these conversations are now available on the Open Philanthropy Project website.

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