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Lead Exposure Elimination Project

A cost-effectiveness analysis by LEEP estimates that their intervention to implement lead paint regulation in Malawi has a cost per disability-adjusted life-year of approximately $12.$14.[3]

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    Charity Entrepreneurship (2020) Presenting: 2020 Incubated Charities, Charity Entrepreneurship Blog, October 13.

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    Bernard, David & Jason Schukraft (2021) Global lead exposure report, Effective Altruism Forum, May 29.

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    Coulter, Lucia (2021)Hu, James (2022) CEA LEEPHow cost-effective is LEEP’s Malawi program?, CausalLEEP’s Blog, April.January 13.

LEEP launched in October 2020 with the help of a $60,000 incubation grant by Charity Entrepreneurship (Charity Entrepreneurship 2020).[1]

LEEP prioritizes work in countries where the problem of lead exposure is unusually tractable, neglected, and large-scale, and they currently focus on Malawi as the most promising country given those criteria. LEEP's activities so far have resulted in a commitment by the Malawi Bureau of Standards to implement a ban on lead paint (Bernard & Schukraft 2021).paint.[2]

A cost-effectiveness analysis by LEEP estimates that their intervention to implement lead paint regulation in Malawi has a cost per disability-adjusted life-year of approximately $12 (Coulter 2021).$12.[3]

BibliographyFurther reading

Bernard, David & Jason Schukraft (2021) Global lead exposure report, Effective Altruism Forum, May 29.

Charity Entrepreneurship (2020) Presenting: 2020 Incubated Charities, Charity Entrepreneurship Blog, October 13.

Coulter, Lucia (2021) CEA LEEP Malawi, Causal, April.

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    Charity Entrepreneurship (2020) Presenting: 2020 Incubated Charities, Charity Entrepreneurship Blog, October 13.

  2. ^

    Bernard, David & Jason Schukraft (2021) Global lead exposure report, Effective Altruism Forum, May 29.

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    Coulter, Lucia (2021) CEA LEEP Malawi, Causal, April.

The Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) aimsis a nonprofit organization that advocates for regulation of lead paint in low-income countries.

History

LEEP launched in October 2020 with the help of a $60,000 incubation grant by Charity Entrepreneurship (Charity Entrepreneurship 2020).

Activities

LEEP prioritizes work in countries where the problem of lead exposure is unusually tractable, neglected, and large-scale, and they currently focus on Malawi as the most promising country given those criteria. LEEP's activities so far have resulted in a commitment by the Malawi Bureau of Standards to reduceimplement a ban on lead poisoningpaint (Bernard & Schukraft 2021).

Impact

A cost-effectiveness analysis by "advocating forLEEP estimates that their intervention to implement lead paint regulation in countries with large and growing burdensMalawi has a cost per disability-adjusted life-year of approximately $12 (Coulter 2021).

Bibliography

Bernard, David & Jason Schukraft (2021) Global lead poisoning from paint" (Rafferty & Coulter 2020). LEEP was incubated by exposure report, Effective Altruism Forum, May 29.

Charity Entrepreneurship (2020) Presenting: 2020 Incubated Charities., Charity Entrepreneurship Blog, October 13.

Bibliography

Coulter, Lucia (2021) CEA LEEP Malawi, Causal, April.

Rafferty, Jack & Lucia Coulter (2021) Seven things that surprised us in our first year working in policy - Lead Exposure Elimination Project, Effective Altruism Forum, May 14.

Rafferty, Jack & Lucia Coulter (2020) [[https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fd96FtLFACeAshqJP/introducing-leep-lead-exposure-elimination-project][Introducing LEEP: Lead Exposure Elimination Project]]Project, /EffectiveEffective Altruism Forum/Forum, October 6.

The Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) aims to reduce lead poisoning by "advocating for lead paint regulation in countries with large and growing burdens of lead poisoning from paint" (Rafferty & Coulter,Coulter 2020). LEEP was incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship.

Rafferty, Jack & Lucia Coulter (2020) [[https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fd96FtLFACeAshqJP/introducing-leep-lead-exposure-elimination-project][Introducing LEEP: Lead Exposure Elimination Project]], /Effective Altruism Forum/, October 6.

https://leadelimination.org/Lead Exposure Elimination Project . Official website.

The Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) aims to reduce lead poisoning by "advocating for lead paint regulation in countries with large and growing burdens of lead poisoning from paint" (Rafferty & Coulter, 2020). LEEP was incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship.Entrepreneurship.

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