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Rob Wiblin

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80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So is it possible to go out and just survey Indian parents and find out, at least among those who didn't bring their kids in for the later vaccinations, what's the deal?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

What was the reason that they didn't do it?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So it seems like there's other countries at a similar income level that are managing to reach a larger fraction of kids with these later stage vaccinations.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So is something perhaps going wrong with the state level health department's approaches to vaccinations in India?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Is there something peculiar about the India situation that's making this a bigger issue?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah, interesting.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Okay, let's push on and discuss the organization that you've made to try to try to fix this issue in India.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

I guess in a nutshell, what does Savita do to try to get more more jabs in arms?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah, I was super surprised to hear that that was the second approach that you were taking.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So we'll come back to that because I think it's really interesting.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

But maybe first, tell us a little bit about the history of how Savita got started.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah, so okay, so you've kind of heard about these effective altruist ideas, and you're thinking, maybe I want to want to start a project to tackle a neglected problem in an effective way.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

How did you find Fiona?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

And also, how did you end up kind of settling on vaccinations and this approach?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Tractability and neglectedness.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Is that 9.1 percentage points?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So some of these studies that look at the effect size, they don't think that much about cost.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Did that paper kind of do a like per dollar analysis?

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah, interesting.