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We are pleased to announce we are recruiting research professionals (advert here) for the UChicago Market Shaping Accelerator. These roles are both exciting and challenging. The roles cover a range of activities: applying your economic intuition to new problems, doing...

At the end of a year-long competition, three teams took the stage last week to pitch their visionary ideas to promote innovation for addressing climate change, pandemics, and public health. Each team was grilled by expert judges in a “Shark Tank...

The success of Operation Warp Speed (OWS) in accelerating the development, production, and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines in record time has sparked a compelling question: can a similar model be applied to other urgent innovations beyond the pandemic? This topic...

Washington DC — Yesterday’s event launching the joint Center for Global Development (CGD) – University of Chicago Market Shaping Accelerator (MSA) initiative on market shaping culminated in the announcement of $600,000 in prizes for three market shaping proposals: $290,000 for a prize...

Epidemic and pandemic-potential viruses pose an unpredictable and severe threat to global health. Future respiratory disease epidemics from influenza or novel coronaviruses are projected to cause 2.5 million global deaths annually (Center for Global Development). The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities...

Faculty Director Christopher Snyder, who played a pivotal role in the Pneumococcal AMC, sheds light on the successes and challenges of the project in this podcast and article with Santi Ruiz of Statecraft. Check out the full interview here.

We’re excited to announce the release of the latest 80,000 Hours podcast episode featuring MSA Faculty Director, Rachel Glennerster. In this in-depth 3-hour conversation, Rachel discusses “market shaping” and its potential to address global challenges such as climate change, pandemics,...