EA Organisation Updates thread: June 2026
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Announcements:
We launched the Strep A Vaccine Fund, a multi-donor effort to accelerate the development of vaccines against Strep A, a pathogen that kills more than 600,000 people a year.
Hiring:
We’re hiring an Operations Coordinator/Associate based in San Francisco or Washington D.C. As always, if your referral results in a hire, you’ll receive $5k as a thank you.
New writing:
We published a blog on how we do remote and in-person work at CG, with reflections from four staff on what working from D.C., SF, NYC, and Brasília is like.
Deena Mousa was profiled in our latest Day in the Life, walking through what it’s like to be a program officer on GHW Cause Prioritization.
Chris Webster wrote about how CG has integrated AI into our work: what we’ve built, where AI helps and falls short, and what he’s learned rolling out new tools across the org.
George Rosenfeld shared a personal letter to friends and family making the case that AI could transform the world within years and that the current trajectory is cause for concern.
Jeremy Klemin wrote about how Georgia Tech engineer Saad Bhamla, working with Thai researchers Kiatichai Faksri and Noppadon Nuntawong, is building a sub-$100 Raman spectroscopy device that could transform TB testing in low-resource settings.
Opportunities:
We launched a $10M RFP on Alternative Protein R&D — read our EA Forum post about it here. Applications are due August 10, 2026.
Our RFP for Humane Fish Slaughter Research/Prototypes is open through July 1, 2026. Funding is available for projects that materially improve the welfare of fish at capture and slaughter.
We also have a variety of other funding opportunities available, including fellowships, scholarships, support for group organizers, and funding for career development and transition.
Fish Welfare Initiative Updates
We’re hiring for a role that we think may be a great fit for some in the EA community: Director of Programs. This role will involve leading and scaling our programs, first in India and then abroad, to implement welfare improvements on thousands of farms. International applicants are welcome, though time living in India will be expected. Leadership experience required; experience running agricultural programs a huge plus.
Learn More and ApplyFWI staff observing a “harvest”, in which the fishes are pulled from the water and asphyxiated to death. We are working to reform these practices with our ongoing “chill kill” project (see update from last year—we should have another update in the coming months).
Wild Animal Initiative’s latest research on the representation of veterinarians in wildlife research, with a special focus on wild animal welfare science, was published in Research in Veterinary Science. The lead author is WAI Research Manager Michaël Beaulieu.
The paper first establishes a baseline for the representation of veterinarians in wildlife research. Along with Michaël, 14 students from the UniLaSalle Veterinary College in France examined the educational backgrounds of the authors of more than 5,000 articles published in animal behavior, conservation, ecology, and physiology over the last 10 years. They found that the representation of veterinarians was modest in well-established wildlife research disciplines, with only 3% of articles having at least one author with veterinary training.
Following the same procedure, they also examined the representation of veterinarians in the emerging field of wild animal welfare science. They found that almost half of wild animal welfare articles in animal welfare journals included at least one veterinary author. This high representation may be a reflection of veterinary students’ early interests in animal welfare and wildlife, of the role of animal welfare in veterinary education, and of veterinarians’ belief that wild animal welfare research has practical applicability. (Note that these findings and interpretations should be read cautiously, though, since the number of wild animal welfare articles found was relatively low.)
Michael says he would have been delighted to come across a paper like this when he was a young veterinary student interested in both research and wild animals. Seeing how feasible it is for veterinarians to get involved in wildlife research would have given him confidence to take my career in an unconventional direction, which is a key part of field-building.
Despite some limitations, the article also suggests that veterinarians may be better prepared to conduct research in wild animal welfare than in any other wildlife research discipline. But if veterinarians are to come to view wild animal welfare research as a safe professional pathway, the emerging field of wild animal welfare science will need to offer them more career opportunities. And that will require growth in the field — in its community, in its activities, in its recognition, and in the resources at its disposal.
Evidence Action’s Organization Updates:
We shared this piece about the progress we made in preventing childhood anemia in India, where we reach 26 million children with weekly supplements.
Following the United Nations’ warning about Nigeria’s 2026 lean season, we published this piece about our maternal and childhood nutrition work in the country.
Hiring:
(Senior) Director, Global Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning will drive and deliver organizational direction on data-led decision-making, and actively balance the rigor, cost and speed trade-offs across the portfolio. Pay range: $155,000 – $185,000.
(Senior) Director, Impact Strategy & Innovation will lead the continued evolution of our MLE function, ensuring our systems, structures, and external presence reflect the scale of what we are building. US-based pay range: $155,000 – $185,000.
Manager, AI Strategy & Adoption (1-year time-bound) will be Evidence Action’s go-to on AI strategy. Pay range: $83,900 − 94,000.
Manager, Nutrition (1-year time-bound) will play a key role in helping to strengthen our existing footprint and support the expansion of our nutrition programs. Pay range: $71,400 − 80,000.
Senior Manager, MLE Strategy will contribute MLE leadership at the strategic level for our maternal and childhood nutrition programs — shaping how evidence informs scale-up, where the program model adapts, and how learning gets generated and used. Pay range: $98,700 - $110,000.
Agriculture Program Lead, The AI Access Initiative to lead the design and execution of our Agriculture portfolio: starting with AI-enabled weather forecasting and advisory services for smallholder farmers, with potential to expand into adjacent agriculture interventions over time. Pay range: $155,000-$170,000.
Director, Finance and Operations, The AI Access Initiative will help architect the institutional backbone of a rapidly scaling AI-focused global development organization. Pay range: $155,000-$170,000.
People Operations Lead, The AI Access Initiative define and scale people operations for The AI Access Initiative. Pay range: $110,000 - $155,000.
GiveWell Updates
Read MoreGiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld was recently named to the 2026 TIME100 Philanthropy list. Last year, GiveWell directed over $400 million to programs that save and improve lives, guided by the central question that has driven us from the very beginning—where can a dollar do the most good?
Listen Here: Expanding Our Search for Cost-Effective Ways to Reduce PovertyIn a recent podcast episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Adam Salisbury about our growing livelihoods portfolio, focused on increasing the economic well-being of people in extreme poverty. Elie and Adam discuss testing variations of cash transfers, exploring poverty graduation programs, and funding research to answer key questions about which programs are most cost-effective.
Learn More + ApplyWe recently granted $5 million to the DIV Fund to identify and support promising water quality and access innovations we could consider for future funding. If you’re piloting an early-stage water intervention, or know someone who is, the RFP is now open on a rolling basis.
Read More: Growing GiveWell’s Largest Research AreaGiveWell has directed more than $1 billion to malaria prevention over our history. With increased capacity on our malaria research team—our largest research subteam—we’re expanding our malaria work by funding new research, increasing coverage of core programs, and exploring interventions beyond nets and seasonal malaria chemoprevention.
Listen Here: What a Decade of Iron Funding Has Taught UsOver the last decade, GiveWell has directed nearly $50 million to iron fortification and supplementation programs. In a recent episode of GiveWell Conversations, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Researcher Andrew Martin about our work on iron—including how an evaluation of our 2021 grant to Fortify Health, which showed the program was roughly twice as cost-effective as projected, led us to renew our support with a $10 million grant.