Tom Hird
Associate Program Officer, Lead Exposure
Tom leads on grantmaking for the Lead Exposure Action Fund (LEAF), Coefficient’s first collaborative fund. Tom has a PhD in Public Health from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Coefficient Giving, he co-led the Global Health and Development team at Rethink Priorities, served as senior partner lead for the Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products (STOP) partnership, and held research positions at the Universities of Bath, Cambridge and Monash, focusing on epidemiology and public health policy. Tom has spoken frequently on lead exposure elimination, including at UN General Assembly events and development policy forums.