an important side effect of global-health funding is that it buys us a lot of goodwill and mainstream legibility
This seems like a pretty natural thing to believe, but I’m not sure I hear coverage of EA talk about the global health work a lot. Are you sure it happens?
(One interesting aspect of this is that I get the impression EA GH work is often not explicitly tied to EA, or is about supporting existing organisations that aren’t themselves explicitly EA. The charities incubated by Charity Entrepeneurship are perhaps an exception, but I’m not sure how celebrated they are, though I’m sure they deserve it.)
This seems like a pretty natural thing to believe, but I’m not sure I hear coverage of EA talk about the global health work a lot. Are you sure it happens?
(One interesting aspect of this is that I get the impression EA GH work is often not explicitly tied to EA, or is about supporting existing organisations that aren’t themselves explicitly EA. The charities incubated by Charity Entrepeneurship are perhaps an exception, but I’m not sure how celebrated they are, though I’m sure they deserve it.)