I don’t think these things are “lumped in” with each other as often as it might seem. Within EA, people typically use “global health and development” as an umbrella term when they want to cover work in both areas; it’s understandable that this would look like conflating the two.
But “global health” and “global development” are often discussed separately as well.
(Confusingly, much of the development discussion happens within the progress studies community, which overlaps heavily with EA in terms of ideas + the people involved, but has its own publications and Twitter threads and so on, which means the conversations often involve people in EA but happen outside EA spaces.)
I still wish there were more discussion of growth in EA and EA-adjacent spaces, relative to conversations about health topics, but I think the gap is less wide than it appears.
I don’t think these things are “lumped in” with each other as often as it might seem. Within EA, people typically use “global health and development” as an umbrella term when they want to cover work in both areas; it’s understandable that this would look like conflating the two.
But “global health” and “global development” are often discussed separately as well.
(Confusingly, much of the development discussion happens within the progress studies community, which overlaps heavily with EA in terms of ideas + the people involved, but has its own publications and Twitter threads and so on, which means the conversations often involve people in EA but happen outside EA spaces.)
I still wish there were more discussion of growth in EA and EA-adjacent spaces, relative to conversations about health topics, but I think the gap is less wide than it appears.