EA - Malaria Vaccine Research Help Needed by joshcmorrison

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Malaria Vaccine Research Help Needed, published by joshcmorrison on December 30, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.We at 1Day Sooner postedrecently about scoping a campaign to push for an accelerated rollout of the newly approved R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine. The vaccine was recently prequalified by the WHO, a key step on the critical path to vaccine distribution, but much remains to be done.We greatly appreciate the more than a dozen people who reached out to help after our last post. Their work was invaluable for producing our December Malaria Vaccination Status Report, the development of which has been critical to improving our understanding of the problem. Our colleague Zacharia Kafuko's op-ed as well as Peter Singer's on the subject are also both good sources for further reading.We plan to publish a new status report every month and maintain a rolling public comment version to reflect our latest understanding of the issue and use as a sort of global workspace to share the most critical information about obstacles and enablers for widespread distribution.To make our research work for this more sustainable we're moving to a pool system where members sign up for at least four days out of the month where they will be assigned a 1-2.5 hour research or writing task to update and improve our status report document. Pool members will be paid $100 per pool day. (Here is a punch list of the type of goals we have for our next draft.here.).We are looking to add 5-10 new pool members for January beyond those who signed up last month. If you're interested in helping, please emailryan.duncombe@1daysooner.org.Questions and comments are very welcome. Thanks!Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org