Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg
Former Future Perfect fellow
Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg started her career as an ICU nurse in Canada, moved on to running retreat logistics for effective altruist organizations, and spent several years as the finance lead at the Centre for Effective Altruism. As a Future Perfect writing fellow in 2021-2022, she focused on public health and mental health, combining her years of expertise in health care with her interest in infrastructure, efficiency, and cost-benefit analyses. She has since worked on operations and finance for organizations in the AI alignment space.
Latest articles by Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg


Poor families are more likely to be separated by the government. The Dobbs decision will make it worse.

From AI to bioengineered risks, Jason Matheny studies what governments will face in the coming years.

Rationalist Julia Galef believes everyday people will benefit from assessing all sides of a debate, rather than just their own.

Without accurate data on disease and outcomes, policymakers can’t make good public health decisions.

Transparency, accessibility, and understandable analyses are all ways this researcher delivers science to the masses.

The economist has conducted and popularized research that can help break our policy deadlocks on guns and crime.


Why hide taxpayer-funded research behind paywalls? It’s complicated.


Accurate data is critical for public health, and the US doesn’t have it.


How a polio case in New York — and genetic evidence of under-the-radar spread — affects US risk and global eradication efforts.

America needs high-skilled immigrants. Here’s why we don’t have more.
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