World Health Summit
The World Health Summit will feature a workshop aimed at increasing attention to the problem of lead exposure from European aid agencies and other organizations. This grant will cover the workshop's venue costs.
Our Grants
We’re proud to support organizations whose work aligns with our goals. Our grantees are finding evidence-driven and cost-effective ways to measure, mitigate, and bring about mainstream awareness of the problem of lead exposure.
Featured Grantees
Pure Earth
$17,000,000 • Measurement, Mitigation
Pure Earth works on addressing pollution in low and middle income countries, with a particular focus on lead exposure.
This grant covers projects to mitigate lead exposure in over ten different countries or Indian states, and across a range of sources including spices, ceramics, cosmetics, metal cookware, and lead acid batteries.
Select projects include working with the Indian government to eliminate lead in spices in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the first randomized controlled trial replacing lead-contaminated products in households, and interventions to address contaminated cosmetics and metal cookware in Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal.
Center for Global Development
$2,700,000 • Mainstreaming
The Center for Global Development (CGD) is a global development think tank focused on reducing global poverty by conducting research and developing policy solutions. CGD started working on lead exposure in 2021, supported by a grant from GiveWell.
This grant supports a continuation of CGD’s lead working groups, the development of actionable policy proposals on various aspects of the problem, active engagement with policymakers and funders, public events and media engagements on lead exposure, and a pool of funding for subgrants to build the evidence base for interventions to address lead exposure.
Portable XRF Research Consortium
$345,000 • Measurement
Portable X-ray fluorescent (PXRF) analyzers are handheld devices used to determine the elemental composition of materials, including testing for lead in paint.
PXRF costs roughly 90% less than lab-based methods per sample and produces faster results, albeit with some reduction in accuracy.
This grant supports a research consortium including Professor Adam Kiefer, Dr. Jenna Forsyth, and the Lead Exposure Elimination Project to work on validating pXRF readings against more sensitive devices, and develop a standard operating procedure to reduce the cost of lead paint testing.
Selected Grantees
Pahle India Foundation
Pahle India is a relatively new think tank in India founded by Rajiv Kumar, who was previously Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog, a government think tank. This grant supports a working group on lead exposure in India (which is estimated to comprise ~30% of the burden of lead exposure), and the development of a set of policy proposals for the Indian government.