Our Team

  • 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
    A final year medical student from Germany

  • 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
    A 3rd-year medical student from the US

  • 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
    A third-year medical student from Germany

  • 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
    A medical doctor from the UK

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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!