Our Team

  • Simon Ling - Executive Director

    Simon Ling

    Executive Director

    An academic paediatric gastroenterologist and leader in Canada, focused on helping more doctors do more good

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    Clare Diane Harris

    Head of Monitoring and Evaluation
    A medical doctor and study addict from Australia, currently working in both medical and non-medical research roles
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  • Vyshnavi Desiraju

    Head of Community
    A medical doctor from Singapore, running a mental health social enterprise and working for a medtech company focused on maternal health
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  • A person with glasses and earrings is smiling before a white curtain. Louisa is the head of Careers of High Impact Medicine.

    Louisa Rasp

    Head of Careers
    A Biologist B.Sc and a 6th-year medical student from Germany
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    Nailya Bikmurzina

    Head of Content
    A Berlin based creative with a background in Neuroscience
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    Ellery Altshuler

    Head of Giving

    A medical doctor from the United States specializing in Hematology and Oncology LinkedIn

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    Kujani Wanniarachchi

    Podcast Host and Cambridge Ambassador
    A fifth-year medical student from the UK
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    Nduta Ndung’u

    Community Officer
    A medical doctor from Kenya
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    Rafael José Vieira

    Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
    A medical doctor from Portugal, specialising in health technology assessment and real-world evidence
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  • Rachit Shah

    Content Advisor
    A medical doctor from India currently working on Alzheimer’s disease in the US.
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    Abbos Jon

    Coordinator UK and Conference Organiser
    A fifth-year medical student from the UK
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    Calvin Smith

    Co-Coordinator US and Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant
    A 3rd-year medical student from the US

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    Mayuri Vaish

    Co-Coordinator US and Opportunities Manager
    A second-year medical student from the US
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    Devika Menrai

    Coordinator India
    A medical doctor from Mumbai, India, and co-founder of the online medical education platform MedSchool Grammar
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    Elina Christian

    Coordinator Australia
    A medical doctor from Newcastle, Australia. Currently pursuing a Master of Public Health and working as a university tutor
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  • Victoria Zawadil

    Coordinator Germany
    A third-year medical student from Germany

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    Riya Sharma

    Research & Publications Project Manager
    A second-year medical student from Ireland
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    Markus Schirmer

    Career Fellowship Initiator
    A final year medical student from Germany
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    Lea Fabry

    Design Officer
    A final-year medical student from Germany
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    Hannah Nentwich

    Events Manager
    A medical doctor from the UK

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    Fabian Kraxner

    Switzerland Chapter Co-Leader
    A medical doctor from Switzerland
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    Claudia Reichmuth

    Switzerland Chapter Co-Leader
    A fourth-year medical student from Switzerland
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    Carl Vincent Escobar

    Philippines Ambassador
    A fourth-year medical student from the Philippines
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  • Isabel Meusel

    Netherlands Ambassador
    A general practitioner in training and PhD researcher in future resilient healthcare (at the department for Primary and Long-term care at the University Medical Center in Groningen)
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    Shailpriya Nand

    London Chapter Leader
    A fifth-year medical student from the UK
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    Ahmed Hussain

    Oxford Ambassador
    A fourth-year medical student from the UK
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  • Lydia Wilson

    Lydia Wilson

    Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

    A medical doctor and researcher from the UK pursuing a Master of Public Health

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  • M&E team

    Chinwendu (Theresa) Okolie

    Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

    An economics-trained data analyst and econometrics consultant from Nigeria, specializing in Stata, R, SPSS, and survey analytics, and working with researchers and organizations on dataset cleaning, merging, statistical modelling, and clear, policy-focused reporting.

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Our Governing Board

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    Akhil Bansal

    Co-Founder, Governing Board Chair
    A medical doctor from Australia, currently working in public health and as a field strategy consultant on antimicrobial resistance for Schmidt Futures
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    Hunter Lau

    Governing Board Member
    A medical doctor from the US in his third year working in emergency medicine, Founder of Effective Altruism Medicine
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    Erik Jentzen

    Governing Board Member
    A medical doctor from Germany
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    Marie Firgau

    Governing Board Member
    A physician from Germany with seven years of work experience in medicine, fundraising, start-ups and non-profit organisations
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Our Advisory Board

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    Lucia Coulter

    Co-Executive Director & Co-Founder of LEEP
    A medical doctor from the UK, now co-founder and co-executive director of Lead Exposure Elimination Project, a health policy nonprofit working to reduce childhood lead poisoning in low- and middle-income countries.
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  • Ben Krohmal

    Director, John J. Lynch, MD Center for Ethics, MedStar Washington Hospital Center & Assistant Professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine
    A hospital-based bioethics program director and assistant professor in Washington, D.C., who created and teaches a medical school class on effective career paths for physicians and whose research includes research ethics and health security.
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    Joel Tan

    Founder & Managing Director, CEARCH
    A former civil servant and consultant from Singapore, currently running CEARCH, a research and grantmaking organization focused on finding and funding cost-effective philanthropic ideas.
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    Adam Tury

    Former tech leader with 11+ years of leadership experience
    A leadership coach from Michigan, US, helping altruists working on pressing global problems to build high performance teams and maximize their impact.
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    Gregory Lewis

    Biosecurity Consultant
    A medical doctor from the UK working on biosecurity.
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    Moneer Moukaddem

    Impact Consultant
    12+ years of organizational leadership, project management, and impact consulting, helping purpose-driven organizations harness the power of teams and data to maximize impact.
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  • Nina Friedrich - Executive Director of High Impact Professionals

    Nina Friedrich

    Executive Director of High Impact Professionals

    An experienced strategy consultant and community builder with a background in software engineering and a PhD in mathematics, Nina supports experienced professionals to use their careers for greater positive impact.

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Join our team

We always offer volunteering opportunities. Below is a document with all current vacancies. But please feel free to reach out with your own ideas as well!

Current Opportunities
A group of young adults poses and smiles in a park with trees and a pathway in the background. This is a group photo of participants in the High Impact Medicine retreat.