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Varsha Venugopal

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

And in addition, we've had COVID over the last year and a half.

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

So at the moment, we're looking into the administrative data to check the quality of it.

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

And the next step is to try and find ways we can get closer to the impact, either through some kind of before and after or difference in difference method.

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

So I think one challenge we've had so far, and hopefully it's in the past, has been COVID.

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

The first wave and definitely the second wave in India hit fairly hard.

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

We moved all our team to remote fairly soon, and that's part of the reason as well we conducted the remote pilot.

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

With the second wave, we also tried other ways to respond to COVID.

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

We sent out messages to do with proning.

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

We knew there was an identifiable gap around this.

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

I don't know if you know what that is.

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

It's about...

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

lying the patient in the front to improve their oxygenation saturation level.

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

And this is something that doesn't require a hospital and that's something that can be done at home.

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

So that's something we focus designing messages out and sending reminders on.

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

And we did see some percentage of people clicking and we did some follow-up surveys to see

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

their overall information and knowledge on this increased.

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

I think for us, COVID was also in terms of Fiona and me being on the ground, we still managed to grow our team and communicate with our government partners.

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

But we also realized just in terms of being closer to our end users and working closely with the government partners, it's been a challenge over the last year and a half.

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

But again, hopefully we are at the tail end of that.

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

I think the final challenge is very much around this fundraising.