What Jacob Trefethen thinks about behavioural science

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Head of global health R&D at Open Philanthropy, where he directs funding for vaccines, drugs and diagnostics aimed at diseases that get little commercial attention. He writes at blog.jacobtrefethen.com and co-hosts the Hard Drugs podcast with Saloni Dattani.

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Our readingSome diseases are technologically solved and still spread, because the remaining bottleneck is trust rather than science.

Their wordsMeasles is technologically “solved”, but not everyone trusts the solutions or their messengers.

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