Clare Donaldson

Director at Lead Exposure Elimination Project ( Former Earth Scientist @EarthSciCam. Research into impact 📈

[Justin Sandefur @JustinSandefur]

🚨New Paper🚨

1/2 of kids in the developing world have elevated blood lead. That explains about 1/5th of the test score gap b/n rich & poor countries.
https://t.co/cKNQX7d4xd

FT coverage here:
https://t.co/PiiOQK2Pbb

with @leecrawfurd @RoryTodd12 @susannahhares & @rsilv_dc

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

Huge opportunity at LEEP!

[Lead Exposure Elimination Project @LeadElimination]

LEEP is hiring a Chief Operating Officer! The COO will be critical in helping LEEP dramatically widen its impact as we scale to 50 high-priority countries over the next few years. Take a look to find out more and apply! https://t.co/TomrWNTmrZ

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

New study with Aga Khan University @AKUGlobal shows that many oil-based paints for home-use available on the market in Pakistan contain high levels of lead. As we've found before, it looks like red and yellow pigments are the main source of lead

[Lead Exposure Elimination Project @LeadElimination]

Our new research with @AKUGlobal has found that 40% of oil-based paints sampled from the market in Pakistan contained dangerous and illegal levels of lead, endangering the health of children.

Some paint contained 1000 times the legal limit for lead.

https://t.co/y9pDUUzdW7

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

@DaveEvansPhD Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath - most useful for my decision-making at work

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

@AW_Baker @NeelaSaldanha @ThomasGinnDC @JamesSnowden66 @ryancbriggs @notanastronomer @heidilinz @relentlessadve1 @davidmihalyi @au_fan13 @john_quattrochi @_surbhib 9 😅

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

@ryancbriggs Yesss

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

It was an absolute pleasure and a lot of fun working with the team at the EPA in Sierra Leone earlier this year. Thank you to them! On a day off some of us visited @Tacugama chimpanzee sanctuary - here's a view of the forest canopy 💚

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

As is often the case in our work at LEEP, I'm both gutted that there's still so much lead paint about, but also glad to be making progress. Onwards! 📈

[Lead Exposure Elimination Project @LeadElimination]

(1/3) Earlier this year we conducted a paint testing study with the Environment Protection Agency of Sierra Leone @ProtectionLeone (EPA-SL). Results show that 47% of solvent-based paint samples contained dangerously high levels of lead.

[Alexander Berger @albrgr]

Meta-analysis of lead/crime lit finds pub bias but thinks there’s real effect https://t.co/Vtg6hQxea9

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

@tony__sena have an independent org survey and interview key stakeholders at the end of a project (say after we have re-tested paints and regulation is in) and form a judgement that way.

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

Really exciting progress in Madagascar. The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, and Rila Rakotomanana in particular, has been doing an incredible job on this project, glad that LEEP could support them!

[Lead Exposure Elimination Project @LeadElimination]

We’re delighted to announce that the Bureau of Standards in Madagascar has set a new standard on lead in paint and is taking steps to make this standard mandatory, as part of the lead paint project in Madagascar. 🎉 Local news report: https://t.co/zqfyqXmmK7

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

@tony__sena not yet! During a project we track things like timelines, meetings, what stakeholders have said about our contribution and counterfactuals, what they’ve asked for, who else is working on this, etc - but we don’t expect those to give a super-reliable answer, so we plan to...

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

TIME's cover image in LEEP yellow too 🙌

[Lead Exposure Elimination Project @LeadElimination]

We’re very happy to have been endorsed by @willmacaskill in TIME and The New Yorker this week ⏰🗽

https://t.co/FRLg6fGjkw
https://t.co/JwKkSzIsUA

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

Deadline for Head of Ops and (multiple) Programs Manager positions at LEEP is this Sunday! You can work remotely from anywhere + flexible hours. Do apply if you want to have an impact and help us build an organisation that improves millions of children's lives 📈🌍

[Lead Exposure Elimination Project @LeadElimination]

LEEP is hiring for multiple roles to help us solve the global lead problem and improve millions of children’s lives! If you think you could be a good fit for any of these roles, we’d love to see you apply! https://t.co/SB5xpuIuAA

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

What if I told you that roughly $500 for therapy + a little cash helped the most troubled young men in West Africa drop their crime and violence by half. For at least 10 years.

Almost 350 fewer crimes PER PARTICIPANT over 10y.

That's ~$1.50 per crime averted.

New paper & a 🧵

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

@JustinSandefur @FionaConlon4 @UNICEF @USAID @leecrawfurd @susannahhares @rsilv_dc Ooh this graph is very helpful!

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

More data and more testing capacity is needed if lead exposure is to be eliminated in LMICs 👇

[Lead Exposure Elimination Project @LeadElimination]

Lead poisoning is damaging children’s futures around the globe, and particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This is an unacceptable situation that demands action. With @Day1Project we have produced a roadmap to eliminate lead exposure.🧵https://t.co/hJzOhLnbKS

[Clare Donaldson @C_Don7]

@PureEarthNow @rsilv_dc @CRAdvocacy @ConsumerReports @DrJamesERogers @JCaravanos @HealthPollution @PureEarthFuller @rachelkupfer_ Great! Glad I won't miss it :)