How Three Grantees Are Helping People Find High-Impact Careers

Miri Muntean – Probably Good

While working as an implementation consultant in her mid-twenties, Miri Muntean decided to shift careers. She had the vague sense that she’d eventually want to be an entrepreneur — and had previously experimented with for-profit entrepreneurship — but the path to get there felt hazy.

In late 2021, she came across Probably Good’s guide to nonprofit entrepreneurship. Miri hadn’t thought much about this pathway, but as she started to explore linked resources in the months to come, the idea became increasingly attractive. “The information felt unbiased and thoughtful,” says Miri. “Like a trustworthy starting point I could build on.” 

She credits Probably Good’s resources with helping her to decide to apply to the Charity Entrepreneurship program, run by EG&C grantee Ambitious Impact: “I had always thought of entrepreneurship as something I’d pursue later — once I had more experience, the perfect idea, or the right team. Not something I could just… start doing,” she says.  

With the seed grant Miri received after finishing the course in 2024, she co-founded the Access to Medicines Initiative (AMI), a nonprofit aimed at ensuring the availability of contraceptives in public health facilities. After piloting a scalable model in 2025, AMI supported the Nigerian state of Katsina in passing a landmark policy to enable domestic funding for contraceptives. AMI is building on that work in 2026, collaborating with the state government to operationalize the funds and expand program implementation to an additional 750 public health facilities. These efforts are projected to protect more than 60,000 couples and save over 100 lives over the course of a year.

In the near future, the team hopes to expand beyond Nigeria. “I had kind of resigned myself to the idea that if I wanted to contribute meaningfully, it would probably be through earning to give. PG challenged that assumption and made a few different paths feel tangible and genuinely viable,” she says.

Keyur Doolabh – High Impact Medicine

As an emergency medicine doctor in Australia, Keyur felt satisfied with his career choices. He earned enough to donate roughly a third of his income to global health causes and still live comfortably. 

But after roughly five years of practice, Keyur started wondering how he could increase his impact. “With medicine in high-income countries, the value-add can be less than you might think,” says Keyur. “In a big city emergency department, I might see eight or 10 patients in a day, but my value-add is actually seeing those patients, say, 20 minutes sooner. Because they’d still be able to see a different doctor if I wasn’t there.” 

He considered switching to a career in policy, either with the Australian government or a large NGO. Biosecurity was also on the table, and he had even contemplated going into management consulting to build career capital and donate more of his income.

While considering next steps, he stumbled upon High Impact Medicine (Hi-Med). “It was reassuring to come across an organization that was exactly for people in my situation,” says Keyur. During an advising call, Akhil Bansal at Hi-Med presented Keyur with options he hadn’t thought of — including charity entrepreneurship! — and steered him away from management consulting. 

Keyur, like Miri, eventually applied to Ambitious Impact’s incubator program. With help from the program, he co-founded Healthy Futures Global in 2023: a nonprofit aimed at improving syphilis care for pregnant women. Syphilis responds well to treatment, which reduces the risk of newborn transmission by 97%. Keyur predicts that over the next five years, Healthy Futures will save around 5,500 lives in the Philippines alone. Had he stayed in emergency medicine, he estimates it would have taken him 50 years to have the same impact!

Today, Keyur is excited about expanding Healthy Futures’ work beyond the Philippines. He credits Hi-Med for providing tailored, helpful advice: “Akhil really listened to where I was at and advised me appropriately.”

Ameer Virani – High Impact Professionals

Ameer Virani built a career in responsible tourism management, which allowed him to combine his love for travel and his desire to make a positive contribution to society. But in 2023, after working in the space for a decade, Ameer started to wonder about more impactful paths.

While tourism isn’t the most obvious background for an impact-focused career, he’d acquired many transferable skills. After growing up in the U.K., Ameer had lived in Southeast Asia for more than eight years — picking up languages, gaining fieldwork experience, and founding a tourism nonprofit along the way. His new career would draw upon those experiences for a new purpose.

Ameer joined the Summer 2024 cohort of High Impact Professionals’ (HIP) Impact Accelerator Program. There, he met weekly with peers to explore career choices and workshop potential next steps. “I found these meetings very useful for thinking more widely about how I could shift my career in a more impactful direction,” says Ameer. “HIP created the conditions for the cohort to talk through our thinking and make better decisions.” 

The Accelerator Program sharpened Ameer’s resolve to start an impactful charity. Shortly after, he applied for the Charity Entrepreneurship program. This experience introduced him to a range of well-vetted charity ideas, and also introduced him to fellow cohort member Koen van Pelt. With seed funding from the program, Ameer and Koen co-founded Scale Welfare, a nonprofit focused on farmed fish welfare in Southeast Asia. 

Scale Welfare is currently exploring cost-effective, scalable interventions to improve the wellbeing of farmed fish in the Philippines and Vietnam — an area with significant potential but limited existing evidence. Based on the results of its initial on-the-ground research, the organization hopes to pilot its first intervention in 2026. 

Although the Impact Accelerator Program concluded in late 2024, the community continues to play a role in Ameer’s life through ongoing meetups and Slack conversations. “It’s not just a six-week program,” says Ameer. “It’s something participants can benefit from moving forward.”

Simon Ling – High Impact Professionals

After a distinguished career as a pediatric gastroenterologist in Canada and the U.K., Simon began thinking about a career shift. His career had already given him some experience working in low- and middle-income countries; he’d taught in rural Kenya, conducted research in India and Bangladesh, and volunteered for Médecins Sans Frontières’s Telemedicine Program. In 2023, he began to more seriously consider how he could devote more of his time to global health and development.

At first, he primarily considered large, well-known NGOs. But as he explored different opportunities, a staff member at 80,000 Hours recommended he apply for High Impact Professionals’ (HIP) Impact Accelerator Program. Each week, Simon met with a small cohort to construct a personal impact plan, reflect on his priorities, and brainstorm concrete next steps with the group. “The Accelerator Program was a game changer for me,” says Simon, who hadn’t considered smaller organizations as a potential path before starting the program. “It challenged me to think more deeply about career impact.” 

After the program ended, Simon continued to explore smaller global health organizations, supported by occasional one-on-one calls with HIP. He pursued a few volunteer opportunities in the meantime, most notably with Clear Solutions. With support from both HIP and Clear Solutions, Simon then applied to become the Executive Director at High Impact Medicine (Hi-Med), where he started in June 2025. 

Simon is particularly eager to expand Hi-Med’s work to reach established doctors who, like him, want to shift the focus of their careers, as well as doctors who simply want to explore effective giving. “I see my recent pivot as a return to a significant earlier interest of mine,” says Simon. “I’m excited to return to the global health space and work to extend the reach of Hi-Med’s programs around the world.”