Lee Crawfurd

Senior Research Fellow @cgdev.

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

For more here's the blog & map: https://t.co/fusYOkgLHA

FT Coverage: https://t.co/g2JJZfxdIS

Full paper: https://t.co/qRiygKPrwl

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

New @CGDev paper featured in the @FT.

Across 17 low- and middle-income countries, at least 1 in 10 schools sits within 5km of a documented contaminated site. That's roughly 250,000 schools and 43 million children.

https://t.co/g2JJZfxdIS

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

Exposure is concentrated in cities where the wealthiest families live, reaching big majorities of schools in capital cities

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

@PSchlicky @nhilsi @mawilms "Nestlé, began aggressively marketing infant formula as scientific, modern, prestigious, and (falsely) nutritionally superior to breastmilk (Hicks 1981)"

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

"Britain has lagged in one important area: biomonitoring"

https://t.co/K2VPClk2H9

[Environment Journal @envjournal]

Our latest long read looks at lead pollution as a form of air pollution — including residual emissions from before the ban on leaded petrol, and private aviation.

https://t.co/HqkAoS7vdm

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

@DaveEvansPhD @dmckenzie001 I'm at 7/12, I'm coming for you

[Allan Ngari @justrutz]

Profits up. Justice delayed. As Joyce, 15, from says: “Children in #Kabwe also have dreams…we want to have a bright future.” Yet families affected by mining pollution in #Zambia are still waiting for accountability. On #WorldEnvironmentDay read more https://t.co/wgc6uOyfX2

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The UK has what has to be the world's most obviously fixable housing crisis.

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

"An Introduction to the ULAB Problem"

https://t.co/bR10lKU1yf

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

Global convergence in feeling free

https://t.co/aVfXPfNeJq

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

Coverage of our lead conference in the Independent: "Inside the fight against the global $6 trillion lead poisoning problem"

https://t.co/J4LtLQNFZj

[Center for Global Development @CGDev]

Neonatal sepsis kills 700,000 newborns every year — one baby every 45 seconds.

A joint @cgdev and @UChi_MSA working group is launching an advance market commitment to spur the development of affordable, accurate rapid diagnostic tests for neonatal sepsis.

https://t.co/VFZK4XbbbS

[Center for Global Development @CGDev]

📢 New funding opportunity: Up to $5 million available for research on global lead poisoning.

CGD and @coeff_giving are seeking proposals that can help answer critical questions on lead exposure, source identification, battery recycling, policy effectiveness, and more.

Expressions of interest due August 2, 2026.

https://t.co/3u6RHWdMyk

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

@DaveEvansPhD @jrossiter0 @susannahhares this is great!

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

And we're live, tune-in for our 2nd Global Lead conference!

[Center for Global Development @CGDev]

Starting tomorrow: CGD and the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future's Second Annual Research Conference on Global Lead Exposure.

Researchers, policymakers, implementers, and funders will gather in London to explore the latest evidence on lead exposure and how to translate research into action.

Learn more ⤵️
https://t.co/LvrscyA143

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Great piece here. What’s happening in Soho is repeated across the country, bringing together many of Britain’s economic problems. Burdensome planning/licensing regimes, an ageing society with too much power placed with asset/time rich and presumption in favour of no.

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

@BenRamanauskas That's an absurd over-reach.