Meetup : Effective Altruism pub meetup!

 TL;DR * GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached. * A recently completed report from Rethink Priorities calculated IMPALA to have a cost per DALY averted of $7–17 in paediatr...

Impressions from the 21st Annual U.S. Cluster Headache Patient Conference, organized by Clusterbusters. On the morning of the last day of the conference, E. was hanging out with other “clusterheads” outside the conference hotel when he started having a cluster headache attack. Before he could go back to his hotel room, J. offered E. his DMT v...

TL;DR:  The movement has an evidence problem. To solve it, for each intervention we need to know: * What types of evidence that intervention needs * What types of evidence different sources can give us In this post, we outline a framework for evidencing an intervention through five stages: ...