Remember FB Building 8?
Run by Regina Dugan, head of DARPA from 2009-2012
https://time.com/4294095/facebook-research-lab-building-8-darpa-regina-dugan/
She leaves 18 months in to "lead a new endeavor".
https://www.vox.com/2017/10/17/16488654/regina-dugan-facebook-hardware-lab-exit-building-8
She is now the CEO of Leap, which bills itself as the "DARPA for global health".
https://wellcomeleap.org/
Leap is currently building out The First 1000 Days initiative:
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Develop a fully integrated model and quantitative measurement tools of network development in the first 1000 days, sufficient to predict EF (executive function) formation before a child’s first birthday, with 80% predictive validity for EF outcomes at age 3.
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Create scalable methods for optimising promotion, prevention, screening and therapeutic interventions to improve EF by at least 20% in 80% of children before age 3. Of interest are improvements from underdeveloped EF to normative or from normative to well-developed EF across the population to deliver the broadest impact. Techniques that improve EF by 80% or more in 20% of at-risk children are important, but they are not the sole focus of this program.