Varsha Venugopal

It has an extensive supply of vaccination and it has an excellent health system that's rolled out to deliver these vaccines.

We also know they have had successes in the past with vaccines such as polio, where there was a huge government and community and other supporters efforts where they managed to eradicate the polio virus.

from the whole country.

So I think we are fairly confident the challenge is very much on the demand side.

And there isn't anything else that the government could be doing on the supply side to make this to make this better.

So Suvita improves uptake of immunization.

That's getting more carens to complete the immunization schedule through two models.

So one is sending SMS reminders directly to parents and carers.

The other is something called gossip.

So what's gossip?

It is a very deliberate, systematic way of identifying the local community influencers.

and sending them regular messages and reminders.

And it turns out it increased effect sizes in terms of parents taking their kids for immunization versus sending reminders directly to parents.

Sure.

So I was introduced to effective altruism in around 2018 through an LSE mate, Kelly, who had founded Effective Giving in Netherlands and had called me over for this EA Global Conference in London in 2018.

So I...

It was my first time hearing about effective altruism.

I went and read a bunch of papers and looked up articles and found it very interesting.

And there's broadly this idea of we all have limited time, energy, resources, money, and we need to have the most impact.

And how do we go about doing it?