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 :).
EDIT: Basically answered here... https://aerolamp.net/pages/faq
Lazy question What big an area can one $500 UVC cover? Do those 4 in the dance room genuinely clean the whole area?
Surely to be actually mass-practical we need one that can just be a lightbulb and attach to a regular fitting? Obviously it must be harder than all that,,,,
"I don’t think there’s an especially important sense in which “my” money is mine; I think the state would be justified in expropriating and redistributing way more of my income.[3]"
I've been interested to see this (or a similar) sentiment expressed over a number of posts which was quite unexpected!
The more I think about it, the less paradoxical it seems. I don't think those two are in conflict so much. I think we absolutely are compelled to give, but compelled from "Its the right and best thing to do" perspective, not from a "Do it even if you hate-it-kicking-and-screaming" perspective.
I think giving springing on a personal/heart level from gratitiude, but the underlying principle being that hey, this is the right/correct thing to do might actually combine without much paradox. I think if you give because you begrudgingly feel obliged you might be better off not doing it and checking yo heart first?
i think this is a good idea, but perhaps better excecutrd even by "non mental health" people. if your expertise is in psychotherapy why ditch that enormous competitive advantage?
i also think the evidence base on this stuff isn't yet quite there? but I'm not up to date...
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!