In 2013 nearly 800 million people were living under the international poverty line.[1] This has a huge negative impact on health[2] - each year, millions of these people die from preventable diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and diarrhea.[3]

This immense suffering is easily preventable, but is nevertheless neglected - OECD governments spend on average just 0.32% of their GDP on foreign aid.

This profile sets out why you might want to focus on problems in global health and development - and why you might not. This area looks most promising if you are skeptical of our ability to influence the longer-term future of the world, if you think that animal suffering is not as significant as human well-being, or if you think we need strong evidence of impact to justify interventions.

Read the full article by Jess Whittlestone about global health from Effective Altruism