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Open Philanthropy: Global Health & Wellbeing Fund
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This is Open Philanthropy's Global Health & Wellbeing fund page, focused on global health interventions. It is not directly related to AI safety, but Open Philanthropy is a major funder of AI safety research, making their funding priorities and organizational structure relevant context.
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This page describes Open Philanthropy's Global Health & Wellbeing fund, which supports evidence-backed interventions to improve health for the world's poorest people. The fund primarily follows GiveWell recommendations, covering malaria control, clean water access, and vaccination programs. Open Philanthropy has committed over $1 billion to GiveWell's recommendations.
Key Points
- •Open Philanthropy's GHW fund has made 300+ grants totaling $1.3+ billion for global health interventions.
- •Most spending follows GiveWell recommendations focusing on malaria control, clean water, and vaccination programs.
- •The fund also explores new cause areas via cause prioritization researchers before potentially launching dedicated funds.
- •Open Philanthropy committed $175M additional funding for 2026, renewing a $300M three-year commitment made in 2023.
- •The fund is not accepting unsolicited proposals and is partnered with Good Ventures.
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Global Health & Wellbeing Opportunities
We support evidence-backed interventions to improve health and wellbeing for people around the world.
300+
grants made
$1.3+
billion given
Contents
About the Fund
Research & Updates
Featured Grants
About the Fund
Team
James Snowden
Program Director
Deena Mousa
Program Officer
Nic Lyon
Program Officer
Aveek Bhattacharya
Strategy Fellow
Partners
Good Ventures
Private funder (x1)
Interested in learning more or joining the fund? Reach out to partnerwithus@coefficientgiving.org .
We believe every person’s life has intrinsic value regardless of where they were born. Across our funds that focus on global health and development, we support work that improves the lives of the world’s poorest people — who often live on a few dollars a day and lack access to basic necessities like clean water, sanitation, or healthcare. The work we fund ranges from reliable, cost-effective interventions, like distributing medication , to more ambitious interventions like advocating for policy change to improve economic conditions .
Most of this fund’s spending supports organizations recommended by GiveWell , with whom we have a close relationship . GiveWell looks for opportunities with a strong evidence base, successful track record, and low risk of failure (relative to our usual hits-based giving approach). Its previous recommendations include charities working on:
Malaria control: distributing bednets and antimalarial medicine in high-prevalence areas.
Clean water access: providing in-line chlorination technology to rural villages.
Vaccination programs: supporting work to develop and distribute life-saving vaccines, and to help parents keep up with vaccination schedules.
This fund also makes grants in areas recommended by our cause prioritization researchers where we may want to launch a fund later. (We followed this process for our Global Growth Fund .)
This fund is not currently accepting unsolicited proposals.
Research & Updates
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Allocating $175M to GiveWell’s Recommendations for 2026
In October 2023 , we committed $300 million over three years to GiveWell’s evidence-backed, cost-effective recommendations in global health and development. We recently decided to renew that funding early and increase it, committing an additional $175 million for 2026. This funding adds to the more than $1 billion we have previously committed to GiveWell’s recommendations.
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Cause Investigation
Hepatitis Delta
This is a shallow investigation of hepatitis delta, written by Douglas Chukwu Junior on our GHW Cause Pr
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