Adapt Research supports Islands for the Future of Humanity.
See findings from our Aotearoa NZ Catastrophe Resilience Project (NZCat).
Adapt Research performs independent and bespoke research, delivering high-quality evidence to inform strategic questions about health, technology and global catastrophic risk.
Our evidence-based resources, reports, submissions, and research papers are independent and non-partisan. We have a strong record managing and executing the research process from planning to publication.
Our research director Matt is a medically qualified senior researcher with a PhD in philosophy.
We focus on resilient nodes of complexity, such as island refuges for mitigating catastrophic risks, including food, energy, and trade security and the process of national risk assessment.
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Past clients & funding support include:
- United Nations Foundation
- Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment
- Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
- A Wellington-based public health physician
- The Health Quality and Safety Commission
- Effective Altruism Long-term Future Fund
- Future of Humanity Institute
- AI Forum New Zealand
- Health Outcomes Associates
- Inferscience Clinical Decision Support
- The Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost-effectiveness Programme
- The National Health Committee
Media reports about our work:
- Health impaired leaders of nuclear weapon states (ODT)
- NZ’s vulnerability to nuclear war (Stuff)
- Urban and near-urban agriculture for catastrophe resilience (BBC)
- Island resilience abrupt sunlight reducing scenarios (The Guardian)
- Biodiesel as a resilience measure in global catastrophe (Radio NZ, 11 min)
- Island resilience global catastrophes (NZ Herald)
- Nuclear war and resilience (Radio NZ, 23 min)
- Eradication of COVID-19 (Medscape – video 5min)
- Eradication of COVID-19 (NZ Herald)
- UK COVID-19 response (The Guardian)
- COVID-19 and Google mobility data (Radio New Zealand)
- Coronavirus/Covid-19 (Newsweek)
- Catastrophic Risk (Radio New Zealand)
- Catastrophic Risk (Newsweek)
- Cataracts and Falls (TVNZ)
- Cataracts and Falls (ODT)
- Multiple Myeloma (NZ Herald)
- Pharmac funding policy (Radio New Zealand, scroll to bottom)
- Economic analysis of border closure (Stuff)
- Artificial intelligence (Scoop)
- Existential risk (Vice)
- Pandemic threat (Stuff)
- Colorectal cancer screening (TVNZ)
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