Social value of biomedical research

This page discusses the social value of biomedical research | View other pages on the social value of particular activities

This page discusses the social value of biomedical research, and is supplementary to the page on biomedical research as a career option. The page is currently under preparation, but we've included a few links to help get you started.

80000 Hours material

80000 Hours blog category biomedical research discusses biomedical research as a career option from the point of view of doing the most good. The following posts are particularly useful:

• A comparison of medical research and earning to give by Benjamin Todd, 80000 Hours blog, December 13, 2013.
• Case study: earning to give compared to medical research by Benjamin Todd, 80000 Hours blog, February 19, 2014, which includes a user evaluation of their comparison linked above.
• Is most research a waste? by Robert Wiblin, 80000 Hours, April 17, 2013.
• High Impact Science by Carl Shulman, 80000 Hours, November 15, 2011.

GiveWell material

• Returns to Life Sciences Funding by Holden Karnofsky, January 15, 2014, GiveWell blog.