Dr. Akhil Bansal is a doctor who set up the effective altruism-inspired organisation "High Impact Medicine" (https://www.highimpactmedicine.org/). Their aim is "bringing together medics who want to have a wide reaching positive impact". He is currently working as a research analyst for Charity Entrepreneurship.
In this interview we discuss
Links and resources:
HI-Med https://www.highimpactmedicine.org/: "High Impact Medicine, Hi-Med, is a new movement bringing together medical students and doctors to learn more about all the ways medics can help as many people as possible in their careers and engage with opportunities to have a wide-reaching positive impact within medicine".
Charity Entrepreneurship: https://www.charityentrepreneurship.com/akhil-bansal
The Physios Giving Well fledgling community: https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/
GiveWell - How much does it cost to save a life? https://www.givewell.org/cost-to-save-a-life
Akhil's article on the Effective Altruism Forum: "High Impact Medicine, 6 months later - Update & Key Lessons"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TapN3wYhBJPFNBiGN/high-impact-medicine-6-months-later-update-and-key-lessons
Book Recommendations (not EA-related):
To learn more about High Impact Medicine or join their community, go to highimpactmedicine.org
To learn more about Physios Giving Well and join our community, go to https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/ or find us on twitter @onlinephysios and say something like "I'm in" :)
