EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Saanvi Peddi
Founder of HEPS. Leads strategy, partnerships, and the overall direction of every cycle.
THE TEAM
The people who run the cycles.
A student executive team, a professional advisory board, and the founder who started it all.
EXECUTIVE BOARD
The student leadership
The executive board picks the cycle topic, runs onboarding, leads teams, and shepherds each brief to submission.
DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH
Position open
Leads source verification, literature review, and the evidence standards used across all policy teams.
DIRECTOR OF POLICY WRITING
Position open
Oversees brief structure, editing rounds, and final submission quality for every cycle deliverable.
DEBATES & EVENTS DIRECTOR
Position open
Plans and runs internal deliberation sessions, public debates, and end-of-cycle presentation events.
OUTREACH & PARTNERSHIPS DIRECTOR
Position open
Builds relationships with decision-makers, advocacy groups, and institutional partners who receive our briefs.
COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA DIRECTOR
Position open
Manages HEPS social channels, press outreach, and the public-facing narrative around each cycle.
EDUCATION & TRAINING DIRECTOR
Position open
Runs member onboarding, skill-building workshops, and the curriculum that prepares new researchers each cycle.
ADVISORY BOARD
The professionals who keep us honest
Physicians, lawyers, academics, and nonprofit leaders who review drafts, challenge assumptions, and help us reach decision-makers.
ADVISORY SEAT
Physician advisor
Seeking a practicing physician to advise on clinical realities and medical ethics across cycles.
ADVISORY SEAT
Legal advisor
Seeking an attorney or law professor to advise on regulatory, constitutional, and procedural questions.
ADVISORY SEAT
Academic advisor
Seeking a researcher or professor in bioethics, public health, or health policy.
FOUNDER
Saanvi Peddi
Founder & Executive Director. Saanvi started HEPS to build the kind of space she couldn’t find as a student: one where young people could take contested policy questions seriously, do the reading, argue it out, and end up with something decision-makers would actually read.
Her focus areas are healthcare equity, pediatric mental health, and the ethics of emerging medical technology. She leads HEPS’s overall strategy, chairs the topic-selection committee, and serves as the main liaison with the advisory board.
Saanvi Peddi
Founder & Executive Director