Highlights: Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child

This is a selection of highlights from episode #175 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — so if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:    • Preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 p...   In this episode, host Rob Wiblin speaks to Lucia Coulter — cofounder of the incredibly successful Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) — about how LEEP has been reducing childhood lead exposure in poor countries by getting bans on lead in paint enforced. Highlights include: • Rob's intro (00:00:00) • How bad lead is (00:00:36) • How many times more damage lead is doing in low- and middle-income countries (00:03:29) • Why hasn't this problem already been solved? (00:06:38) • What LEEP set out to attempt in Malawi (00:09:35) • Lead paint vs other sources of lead (00:12:33) • What if we had cheap lead tests? (00:15:04) • "Very brief opportunistic interventions" (00:17:32) Learn more and find the full transcript on the 80,000 Hours website: 80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/lucia-coulter-lead…