Under Development

Hi, I’m Deena! I work on Open Philanthropy’s Global Health & Wellbeing portfolio.

I write about things like:

• The Rwandan government’s efforts to degas the potentially-deadly Lake Kivu

• How a philosopher’s ‘experience machine’ thought experiment can shed light on how we interact with technology

• Why we have a propensity to search for silver linings

Under Development is a monthly newsletter on global health and economic development. It operates as a regular digest of interesting work in the space.

News cycles shift rapidly, and the pressure to have a timely news peg - with editors often asking “why now?” - means that it can feel like evergreen stories about important problems have less of a place. This is particularly salient in global health and development, where challenges can recur for decades and, as a result, become buried by other headlines. With that said, subscribe for a bit about what I’ve written, what I’ve been reading, and what I’ve been thinking about each month, and reach out if any of it sparks thoughts for you!