Our Team
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Marie Firgau
Executive Director
A physician from Germany with five years of work experience in medicine, fundraising, start-ups and non-profit organisations
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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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Louisa Rasp
Head of Careers
A Biologist B.Sc and a 6th-year medical student from Germany
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Cynthia von Knebel
Head of Content
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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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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
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Mayuri Vaish
Co-Coordinator US and Opportunities Manager
A second-year medical student from the US
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Rachit Shah
Co-Coordinator India
A medical intern from India and a PhD aspirant, with a keen interest in neuroscience
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Devika Menrai
Co-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
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Riya Sharma
Intro Fellowship 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
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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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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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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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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!