Multiple roles in AI x Global Health and Wellbeing

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MULTIPLE ROLES IN AI X GLOBAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Coefficient Giving is scaling its giving significantly over the next few years, and we are excited to build a new team to make grants at the intersection of AI and global health and wellbeing.

We think AI progress will reshape health and economic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) — possibly compressing decades of medical progress into years, and possibly threatening the growth pathways that lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. To help ensure AI’s benefits reach the people who need them most, we are hiring Associate Program Officers and Research Fellows to join our AI x Global Health & Wellbeing (GHW) team. These are high-leverage roles where whoever we hire will help decide what we fund in this space.

ABOUT COEFFICIENT GIVING

Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy https://coefficientgiving.org/research/open-philanthropy-is-now-coefficient-giving/) is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014, we’ve directed over $7 billion in grants as part of our mission to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. It's also a pivotal moment for Coefficient Giving: We gave around $1 billion last year, and are on track to more than double our giving this year. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment https://coefficientgiving.org/our-approach/ to cost-effective, high-impact giving. Our current funds include Science and Global Health R&D https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/science-and-global-health-rd/, Navigating Transformative Artificial Intelligence https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/navigating-transformative-ai/, Abundance & Growth https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/abundance-and-growth/, Farm Animal Welfare https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/farm-animal-welfare/, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/biosecurity-pandemic-preparedness/, and more https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/.

We’re proud of our track record:

- Our grants to evidence-backed global health programs have saved over 100,000 lives, and our farm animal welfare grants have improved the lives of over 3 billion animals.

- We supported late-stage clinical trials for the R21 malaria vaccine, now being scaled to protect millions of kids globally https://www.nature.com/articles/d44148-025-00245-8#:~:text=Uganda%20is%20at%20the%20forefront,M%20vaccine%20to%20105%20districts..

- We were the earliest major funder of the YIMBY movement to build more housing. Our grantees have led the charge on major wins like City of Yes https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2024/12/mayor-adams-governor-hochul-speaker-adams-celebrates-passage-most-pro-housing-proposal-in in New York, and SB 79 https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/governor-newsom-builds-on-this-years-historic-housing-reforms-signs-legislation-to-accelerate-housing-and-affordability/ in California, which will enable hundreds of thousands of new housing units.

- We jump-started the field of AI safety and security https://coefficientgiving.org/research/ai-program-update-navigating-transformative-ai/ and have played a vital role in addressing other existential threats, such as mirror bacteria https://www.mbdialogues.org/.

ABOUT THE AI X GLOBAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING TEAM

The GHW team https://coefficientgiving.org/about-us/team/#global-health-wellbeing makes grants across scientific research, policy advocacy, and global health and development to serve our mission of helping others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We prioritize grants with the potential to improve health outcomes and economic wellbeing, with most of our work focused on people living in LMICs.

The AIxGHW team is new, and it sits within our Cause Prioritization https://coefficientgiving.org/about-us/team/#cause-prioritization team. Our job is to set the strategy for CG’s work at this intersection, conduct research to figure out which approaches are most promising, and make up to $100 million in cost-effective grants in the next year. Our grantmaking falls into two broad categories:

- Mitigating noncatastrophic but serious risks to global health and wellbeing from transformative AI.

- Ensuring that new AI-enabled solutions to improve health and economic outcomes globally get built and scaled effectively.

Here are some illustrative projects we would be excited to fund:

- Seed funding for a new policy organization that speeds up drug development. A small organization focused on what major global health funders and multilaterals should be doing now to prepare for accelerated medical breakthroughs.

- Technical assistance program for governments redesigning their safety nets for AI-driven job losses. Fund a small team embedded within an LMIC government to help redesign cash transfer targeting, eligibility, and financing mechanisms that are robust to labor market disruption.

- Building a data access layer. Set up proposals for data-sharing frameworks, consent, and privacy protections to enable cheaper and faster impact evaluation of global health interventions, including RCTs and monitoring.

- AI-interpreted diagnostics to narrow healthcare infrastructure gaps. Phone or handheld tools that read chest X-rays for tuberculosis, retinal images for diabetic retinopathy, or cervical images so that under-resourced health workers can access specialist-grade input.

- Frontline public-worker support. Legal aid drafting and case triage for overloaded courts; translation and summarization of case files.

- Open public datasets, especially in specific domains and in local languages. Labeled text/speech for under-resourced languages, particularly in high-importance sectors (e.g. Yoruba × agriculture, Swahili × health, etc.).

- LMIC-specific AI benchmarks. Build benchmarks that reflect local epidemiology, languages, and contexts and track frontier model performance on them over time.

- Usage studies. Baseline descriptive or…