Congratulations on joining the group! What Renaissance Philanthropy is doing sounds awesome, and I wish your team the best of luck (I'm definitely going to apply someday:) ). 

I've been doing a bit of reading on the general state of scientific research, and have been listening to things like the Macroscience Podcast which talk about similar issues. Do you have any advice on learning more about these science-development problems? I'd love to pick your brain on this.