Effective Giving to Improve the Health and Welfare of the Global Poor

Posted by University of Pennsylvania on October 13, 2014

The Life You Can Save
Effective Giving to Improve the Health and Welfare of the Global Poor

Peter Singer
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 – 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Meyerson Hall, Room B1

Co-sponsored by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, The Penn Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, The Year of Health, The Center for High Impact Philanthropy, The Center for Public Health Initiatives, and The Wharton Social Impact Initiative.

The event is free, but please register here.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peter-singer-the-life-you-can-save-registration-12716735097

PETER SINGER, author of The Life You Can Save and renowned Princeton philosophy professor, argues that we can, and should, donate to highly cost effective charities to improve the health and wellbeing of the world’s poor. Peter Singer is one of the most well-known living philosophers and a leader of the Effective Altruism movement, which applies evidence, reason and rationality to doing good. (See http://www.thelifeyoucansave.org.) Professor Singer will discuss the moral case for helping others, and the evidence available to do so most effectively.