High Impact Medicine

What High Impact Medicine does

High Impact Medicine (Hi-Med) is a London-headquartered non-profit founded in 2021 that operates a global community and educational program for medical students and doctors seeking to maximize their impact on global health and biosecurity. Its core product is the Hi-Med Career Planning Course — a 6-week structured online programme delivered via Zoom in small facilitated cohorts — which teaches values identification, cause-area exploration, career option reduction, and action planning, including a proprietary Weighted Factor Model for ranking career alternatives. The organization supplements the course with 1:1 advisory calls, a Giving Hub (in partnership with Giving What We Can) for evidence-based philanthropic guidance, and an Information Hub providing curated resources on impactful medical careers, organizations, and job boards.

Hi-Med is structured as High Impact Medicine Limited, an England and Wales private limited company operating under a fiscal sponsorship with Players Philanthropy, with grant support from Open Philanthropy and the EA Infrastructure Fund plus individual donations. Course participants pay a US$ 150 fee (waivable via full or partial scholarship for those in low/middle-income countries or with financial constraints), but participant fees are explicitly described as covering operating costs rather than as a profit center; the substantive revenue base is philanthropic. Its stated goal is to add 1,000 doctors by 2035 dedicated to improving global health and reducing biosecurity risks. The organization has no proprietary software platform beyond its curriculum and Zoom-based delivery, and operates with a distributed volunteer-heavy governance model across 13+ countries with country coordinators and chapter ambassadors.

Name

High Impact Medicine

Legal name

High Impact Medicine Limited

Website

https://highimpactmedicine.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

High Impact Medicine (Hi-Med) is a London-based non-profit founded in 2021 that runs a 6-week online Career Planning Course, 1:1 advisory calls, a Giving Hub, and an Information Hub to help medical students and doctors globally pursue high-impact careers in global health and biosecurity.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Career Guidance Services

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Science & Medical STEM Programs (Pre-Med, Public Health) (EDAMABAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Healthcare Access & Life Sciences Impact Funds (FSANAJAI)

Keywords

• Career planning services
• Medical education programs
• Effective philanthropy guidance
• Global health community
• Biosecurity careers advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Course Participation Fees: Participants contribute US$ 150 to cover course costs. Partial and full scholarships are available for those in low- and middle-income countries or with financial limitations. Course fee is not considered in the application evaluation process.
2. Foundational Support and Grants: Supported by Open Philanthropy, EA Infrastructure Fund, and individual donors. Operating as a non-profit organization with fiscal sponsorship through Players Philanthropy.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

High Impact Medicine (Hi-Med) is a non-profit community that guides doctors and medical students toward high-impact careers in global health and biosecurity. It delivers a 6-week online Career Planning Course with small group sessions, 1:1 advisory calls, a Giving Hub for effective philanthropy advice, and an Information Hub with career and giving resources.

Product overview

High Impact Medicine operates a unified platform offering career guidance and philanthropy advice for medical professionals. The core offerings include the Hi-Med Career Planning Course (a 6-week structured online programme with small group sessions), 1:1 advisory calls for individual career guidance, the Giving Hub for effective giving advice, and an Information Hub providing resources on impactful careers. These programs work together to help doctors and medical students maximize their impact on global health and biosecurity challenges.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hi-Med Career Planning Course A 6-week online programme of weekly small group sessions with a facilitator for doctors and medical students who want to find their pathway to impact on global health and biosecurity problems.
• 1:1 Advisory Calls Individual guidance sessions with Hi-Med advisors to discuss career planning and high-impact career pathways for medical students and doctors.
• Giving Hub Advice and resources to help medical professionals maximize the impact of their charitable donations through evidence-based philanthropy, including pledging income to effective charities via Giving What We Can.
• Information Hub A resource collection providing guidance on impactful medical careers, global health organizations, job boards, and opportunities for skill-building for doctors and medical students.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100x impact difference between effective and ineffective charities, enabling 100x more lives saved per dollar donated

Named customers7 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Giving What We CancoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization for the giving pledge program. Hi-Med members can pledge to donate a percentage of their income through Giving What We Can's platform. The partnership leverages Giving What We Can's charity evaluation research to guide Hi-Med members' effective giving decisions.
• GiveWellminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCharity evaluator referenced by Hi-Med for effective giving guidance. Provides evidence-based charity evaluations that Hi-Med uses to advise members on maximizing charitable impact.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• High Impact Professionals: High Impact Professionals supports experienced professionals in using their careers for greater positive impact, with a similar mission profile to Hi-Med. Nina Friedrich, Hi-Med's Advisory Board member, is the Executive Director of High Impact Professionals, indicating tight organizational overlap.
• Effective Altruism Medicine: Effective Altruism Medicine was founded by Hunter Lau, who sits on Hi-Med's Governing Board. It pursues a closely related mission of guiding medical professionals toward high-impact careers, representing either a sister organization or a near-overlapping community in the same niche.
• Giving What We Can: Giving What We Can is Hi-Med's strategic partner for the giving-pledge program and shares the EA-aligned impact-maximization mission. Both organizations target high-earning professionals for evidence-based philanthropy, making them functional peers in the giving-pledge space.

Others

• GiveWell: GiveWell is referenced by Hi-Med for evidence-based charity evaluations that inform its giving guidance. While GiveWell is an evaluator rather than a community, its research directly powers Hi-Med's Giving Hub recommendations, making it a closely coupled ecosystem participant.
• Charity Entrepreneurship: Charity Entrepreneurship incubates high-impact charities, often in global health and biosecurity cause areas that Hi-Med community members pursue. Both organizations share EA-aligned funders and target audiences interested in launching impactful careers in global health.
• Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP): LEEP is a health policy nonprofit focused on reducing childhood lead poisoning in LMICs, co-founded by Hi-Med Advisory Board member Lucia Coulter. It exemplifies the type of high-impact global health organization Hi-Med steers its community toward, representing a beneficiary of Hi-Med's career-placement influence.

Emerging players

• MedStarter / Mission Medics: Mission-focused medical career communities (e.g., MedSend, MedStart, Mission Medics) similarly guide clinicians toward underserved and global-health roles. They represent an older, faith-aligned generation of mission-driven medical career guidance that Hi-Med parallels in secular EA form.
• MedSchool Grammar: MedSchool Grammar is an online medical education platform co-founded by Hi-Med's India Coordinator Devika Menrai. It targets a closely overlapping audience — medical students seeking structured learning — but focuses on curriculum mastery rather than career impact.

Broad incumbents

• 80,000 Hours: 80,000 Hours is the leading effective altruism-aligned career guidance organization, offering research and 1:1 advising to help high-impact professionals — including medical professionals — maximize their career impact. Hi-Med is essentially a vertical specialization of 80,000 Hours' general career-planning methodology for the medical field.
• Centre for Effective Altruism: CEA is the umbrella community-building organization for the effective altruism movement, of which Hi-Med is a vertical chapter. Hi-Med's funding and mission are deeply intertwined with CEA's EA Infrastructure Fund, making it a strategic ecosystem incumbent.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/high-impact-medicine

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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