TL;DR
* GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached.
* A recently completed report from Rethink Priorities calculated IMPALA to have a cost per DALY averted of $7–17 in paediatr...
This month effective altruism has gotten lots of attention, including a cover story in The Economist. It feels pretty surreal to be on the receiving end of it. But I feel grateful these ideas have caught on, and even more grateful for the drive, earnestness, and compassion of so many people who took strange but well-argued ideas seriously and then actually acted on them....
Impressions from the 21st Annual U.S. Cluster Headache Patient Conference, organized by Clusterbusters.
On the morning of the last day of the conference, E. was hanging out with other “clusterheads” outside the conference hotel when he started having a cluster headache attack. Before he could go back to his hotel room, J. offered E. his DMT v...
(For context I work on EA Global at the Centre for Effective Altruism.)
If helpful, we've put together this list of potential accommodation spaces in the area.
Also just to note, we aren’t currently planning to do room/hotel blocks for attendees for this conference (i.e., booking hotel rooms on behalf of attendees) — mostly because there historically hasn’t been much demand for this (though a version of this was done for EAGxBoston 2022). We also got around to thinking about hotel blocks/bookings quite late and you need a fair bit of planning and warning to do this well. That said, it’s very possible we do this in the future (and slight chance we do this for EA Global: Washington, D.C.).
Hope this is helpful!