Julie Faller

Julie Faller, Senior Program Officer at GiveWell with a focus on global health program analysis, joins Elie Hassenfeld to discuss urgent funding challenges in global health. They examine how U.S. aid cuts force countries to prioritize HIV treatment over prevention, impacting vital health services. Supply chains for therapeutic foods are in disarray, and layoffs threaten the capacity of implementing organizations. Strategies for addressing these gaps include innovative funding approaches and a spotlight on the critical need to combat acute malnutrition among children.

Julie Faller, Senior Program Officer at GiveWell, explains how new research and grantmaking methods are uncovering cost-effective interventions. She discusses running RFPs to find unfamiliar implementers, funding a portfolio of inline chlorination pilots across African contexts, vaccine outreach trials to boost coverage, and varied research and cash-transfer program experiments.

Julie Faller, Senior Program Officer at GiveWell, joins the discussion on enhancing livelihoods programs. She delves into GiveWell’s new focus on evaluating economic empowerment versus health outcomes, highlighting the importance of community perspectives. The conversation explores innovative funding approaches, the spillover effects of cash transfers, and the necessity for tailored interventions. With a renewed emphasis on moral weights in grant decisions, Faller advocates for flexible funding to increase impact, ensuring that diverse needs are met in the ever-evolving landscape of charitable efforts.