Chris Smith

Biography

I'm a Program Officer at Open Philanthropy. Open Philanthropy is a philanthropic funder, with a mission to help others as much as we can.

I work on both global public health policy grantmaking and creating new philanthropic opportunities for UHNWIs and foundations to maximize the positive impact of their resources.

Last year, I led the creation of the Lead Exposure Action Fund. This works to accelerate progress toward a world free of lead exposure by making grants to support measurement, mitigation, and mainstreaming awareness of the problem, which is responsible for cognitive impairment and >1M deaths per year.

Talk to me about public health, global health R&D, vector borne diseases, non-communicable diseases, collaborative philanthropy, how to respond to the present challenges in global health and development, amateur running, specialty coffee, and French indietronica.