We invest 10s of billions of dollars in R&D to live longer & healthier lives What if we were to take a similar level of seriousness in R&D against society's hardest social problems? @stanfordimpact is aiming to build a scalable model to do just that 👇

Civil servants who stop bad things from happening is wayyyyy underrated form of public service. No one gets an award for preventing that disaster that didn’t happen.

Interesting new #metascience program at @NIH . Glad to see they'll be given access to internal data! More large federal agencies should do this!! #opendata

Six years ago, critical US education data was changed to make it less useful in tracking educational outcomes. You now have the opportunity to improve the quality of US education performance data by signing on to the letter below from @seda_data

i just hope these results persist! 🤞

Looking forward to joining #ASSA2025 this weekend in my hometown of San Francisco! Lots of exciting policy-relevant work being presented--too much to keep track of! Let me know if you'll be there & want to grab a coffee!

RT @ArnaudDyevre: I just read the paper in full; it is even more spectacular than I initially thought. A short thread about the results and…

📢@stanfordimpact is excited to make a long-term investment in @GCAProject based on a track record of research that has helped to build more prosperous & resilient economies. Read more 👇

RT @Malathineo: Thank you @stanfordimpact for getting us all in one room. It was a great kickstart meeting and can't wait to share our prog…

RT @albrgr: 🚨 🚨 🚨 We are looking for someone great to lead a new program focused on accelerating economic growth in developing countries.🚨…

Each are working on big problems: like infant mortality in Uttar Pradesh, reducing cycles of involuntary hospitalization in Pittsburg; and a disruptive new idea being tested in California to give every newborn a chance at a thriving future... read more!

This is critical, not just for the the ~150,000+ people in Brazil who are currently on dialysis and might eventually need a donor kidney --- but also for the entire region, which leads the world in burden of disease associated with chronic kidney disease.