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Four professionals share how our career advising grantees — Probably Good, High Impact Medicine, and High Impact Professionals — helped them find paths to greater impact.
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How Banning Toxic Pesticides Could Prevent Over 100,000 Deaths per Year
By
Aaron Gertler
/Impact Stories
/March 9, 2026
Mark Davis, CPSP's Director for Agriculture and Regulatory Outreach, discusses how banning the most toxic pesticides can save lives and help farmers transition to safer, more sustainable alternatives.
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How LEEP is Eliminating Lead Paint, One Country at a Time
By
Aaron Gertler
/Impact Stories
/February 10, 2026
Q&A with Clare Donaldson, LEEP’s Executive Director, about the lead paint crisis, LEEP’s methodology, and her fond memories of watching paint dry.
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How the Institute for Replication is Making Social Science More Robust and Reliable
If you ask Abel Brodeur about his interest in p-hacking — manipulating data or analysis to get a statistically significant result — he'll be honest with you.
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How a Low-Cost, No-Electricity Device Is Expanding Access to Clean Water
How Neil King and David Baker Are Using AI To Create More Effective Vaccines
In October, our longtime grantee David Baker won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for groundbreaking work in protein design. We wanted to take the opportunity to highlight his work and some of its practical applications, such as enabling better vaccines.
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How Platinum Helps Draw Attention to Japan’s Role in Global Health Funding
The Global Aid Policy team estimates that in Western nations like the U.K., for every $1,000 spent on overseas development assistance, aid advocacy funders spend around $2.60 attempting to support and inform its allocation. Meanwhile, in Japan, advocacy spending is a mere $0.25 for the same amount. The following case study highlights one grantee helping to drive this work forward.
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