NickLaing
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I'm a doctor working towards the dream that every human will have access to high quality healthcare. I'm a medic and director of OneDay Health, which has launched 53 simple but comprehensive nurse-led health centers in remote rural Ugandan Villages. A huge thanks to the EA Cambridge student community in 2018 for helping me realise that I could do more good by focusing on providing healthcare in remote places.
How I can help others
Understanding the NGO industrial complex, and how aid really works (or doesn't) in Northern Uganda
Global health knowledge
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Thanks @mal_graham🔸 this is super helpful and makes more sense now. I think it would make your argument far more complete if you put something like your third and fourth paragraphs here in your main article.
And no I'm personally not worried about interventions being ecologically inert.
As a side note its interesting that you aren't putting much effort into making interventions happen yet - my loose advice would be to get started trying some things. I get that you're trying to build a field, but to have real-world proof of this tractability it might be better to try something sooner rather than later? Otherwise it will remain theory. I'm not too fussed about arguing whether an intervention will be difficult or not - in general I think we are likely to underestimate how difficult an intervention might be.
Show me a couple of relatively easy wins (even small-ish ones) an I'll be right on board :).
Great analysis love the simple language. I'm super impressed by the payback on marketing. 50 percent first timers is amazing!
@MichaelPlant the EA celeb love it. I wonder if he'll accept that label?
The only way I can see of solving your problem here is to talk to a neurotypical. See this important post for clarification.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JoiwqpR2oHBod3gAG/tapping-into-ea-s-most-neglected-market
Look I know I'm on the forum too much @Toby Tremlett🔹 , but I don't think its necessary to put "reading limit" controls on me....
Thanks Tom. I'm sure that's true in theory, but in practice RP is at the public forefront of the animal welfare work in the way that they aren't in other work. That's not to diminish other work, more to say that in the public sphere, the moral weights, cause prioritization work and surveys on community preferences point heavily in the direction of animal welfare.
So i might weakly disagree with your "in practice" claim. This might not be intentional or even bad if it's pushing animal welfare work more to the forefront.
Thanks for the update, and the reasons for the name change make s lot of sense
Instinctively i don't love the new name. The word "coefficient" sounds mathsy/nerdy/complicated, while most people don't know what the word coefficient actually means. The reasoning behind the name does resonate through and i can understand the appeal.
But my instincts are probably wrong though if you've been working with an agency and the team likes it too.
All the best for the future Coefficient Giving!