Triple Milestones & Why I Built Invite Health

Message from Sachi

Today’s post is a celebration for Invite Health’s triple milestone!

• 1,000 subscribers 🤗 

• 50 interviews 🎙️ 

• 2 year (belated) birthday of Invite Health 🎂 

What this means to me 🎂 🫶 

First off, thank you so much for subscribing 💌 

I hit the milestone a few weeks ago but wanted to take some time processing the milestone before writing this.

• 1,000+ subscribers. 1,000 people is almost worth four cohorts of my undergrad. I’m grateful for each and every one of you for joining me on this journey.

• 50 interviews. That’s a larger number than most of my classes. That’s 50 of you who have shared in-depth stories about your careers.

  • Thank you to the 50 of you that have shared your story with Invite Health: Demi Callisto, Shreya Sharma, Shayan Novin, Jenny Hu, Nada Ibrahim, Samy Cheng, Andrea M, Angelique J, Lloyd Fan, Shraddha, Julia Ungureanu, Zoe Tsai, Kaman Sandhu, Massa Mohamed Ali, Linda Duong, Aariana Lopes, Yasmin Said, James Lisondra, Anabela Cotovio, Brandon Yu, Jennifer Tsai, Asma Adam, Emma Adamson-De Luca, Kary Yau, Anjali, Aastha, Tina Wu, Adam Arca, Bruna, Kanish, Jasmine Wu, Lana Amoudi, Imtisaal Mian, Brian, Isabelle Linden, Ana Han, Harshini Ramesh, Subaita Rahman, Michael Trinh, Rowan Ives, Kyle Jackson, David Zhu, Alexia Piccolo, Sara Emira, Anoushka Jere, Rubaina Farin, Tanveer Randhawa, Benjamin Lévesque Kinder, Zuha Durrani, and Marwah Azizi.

• 2 years. So much can change in two years. Time flies when you’re having fun and building along the way.

Invite Health has grown beyond being an educational resource for navigating careers in healthcare. It’s become a place for reassurance and community-building: seeing other people navigate careers, being honest about rejections and redirections, and realizing that there are students who share your interests!

Why I Built Invite Health 💐 

Two years ago, I wanted to make a resource where I could share healthcare-related job opportunities I found online. September 2022 was also the time I decided to switch my post-grad trajectory from applying to medical schools to applying to Master’s programs (and I’m fortunate that it worked out!).

I made a three minute reel here summarizing the story on the @readinvitehealth Instagram page:

To summarize, I wanted to build Invite Health to:

1. Share resources and opportunities in the health sciences - I love sending my friends opportunities already, why not do it with a larger audience? I wanted to especially share paid opportunities - I saw too many of my friends and classmates doing unpaid work.

2. Answer the question of “what can I do with a life sci / health sci degree” that wasn’t medicine. And not just show what you can do with the degree, but also how to get there. Show the process and the outcome.

3. “Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not” - to close the talent-opportunity gap between students and job/career/educational opportunities.

Who knew that the seeds of my little passion project would bloom into this wonderful community 🌻 

What I’ve learned 🌼 

Lessons from building Invite Health

• Being resourceful is just as important as being smart. I didn’t know anything about building newsletters when I started Invite Health. To learn, I reached out to people on LinkedIn, I studied the newsletters I consumed, and I iterated along the way. You don’t need to know everything, but you have to be resourceful (and open-minded!) to teach yourself.

• A good idea is only as good as its reach. You can have a good idea, but if you’re 1) not confident enough or 2) not focussing on distribution, the idea might not take off as far as you hope. I grew Invite Health because I brought it up in many personal and professional settings (ex: in conversations, on my personal social media, during conferences, etc.) How can your idea help people if they don’t even know about it?

• Knowing that you made an impact on someone’s life is the biggest milestone to celebrate. The thing about newsletters is that you only see your readers as numbers: you can see how many people open your newsletters, what links they clicked, etc. But you never know what people are taking away from it until you talk to them. Invite Health became a community when you started to reach out to me: about your shared frustrations with gatekeeping culture, wanting to explore other career pathways, or how Invite Health has helped you find a new opportunity. The best part of Invite Health is the people I’ve met along the way.

I hope this newsletter can inspire you to start that project you’ve been thinking about! The world is waiting for your idea. Get started on that project, and send me a message when you do!

One of you has already started:

What’s next? ⏭️ 

Before Invite Health’s third birthday, on September 21, 2025 (around the same time I finish my MSc), I hope to:

• Get my first newsletter sponsors - if you know of any organisation or event organiser who might be interested, send them this link!

• Publish 100 interviews - 50 down, 50 more to go

• Reach 10,000 subscribers

• Create LinkedIn / Instagram content about the lessons + insights I’ve gained from building Invite Health

• Share Invite Health with wider audiences via public speaking, podcasts, interviews, articles, and more!

If you want to help make this possible, send me a message 💌 

Impact Gallery ❤️ 

One day I’ll be a museum curator. For now, I curate these kind messages for this “Invite Health’s Impact” exhibition 🖼️ 

Thank You

Next interview will be coming out soon & many more interviews are coming this fall! For now, make sure to read (or re-read) any of the previous 50 interviews.

Cheers,

Sachi 💌 

Jobs, Opportunities, and Resources

September is recruiting season! Lots of opportunities opening up 💻️ 

• Showcasing UHN’s Summer Students | UHN Research

• PhD Paths 

• Apply for Graduate Entry - Ellison Institute of Technology (eit.org) 

• RBC Amplify Program | Jobs at RBC 

• Passionate about developing longevity biotech education and career resources? Join LongX

• Fellowship Circle | Accelerate Her Future®

• PaRx Webinar: Prescribing Nature for Better Health

• Fellowship — TIME Initiative 

• Applied AI Internships - Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence 

• BobaTalks x Google Grow Scholarship (Community College Students) 

• How to Prepare Before Attending a Conference [LinkedIn]

• Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at McGill University - McGill University 

• Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program | (cam.ac.uk)

• Strategies for job searching [LinkedIn]

• WCH - Research Assistant II - Hereditary Cancer Research Unit (njoyn.com) 

• Student Job Opportunities at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

• Research & Development Engineering Associate [8+ Month Co-op] (rippling.com) 

• Careers and Opportunities - ​The​ ​Enchanté Network (enchantenetwork.ca) 

• The Canadian Development Exchange Program - Aga Khan Foundation Canada (akfc.ca)

• PUBLIC MLCB Postdoctoral Research at Broad Institute

• Volunteer with The Next Surgeon

Free Links & Resources 🫰 

• Applying to Grad Schools Notion Guide by Sachi

• 15 Paid Summer Research Programs in Canada

• Paid Summer Programs in Research, Policy, Tech, etc.

Made with 💝 & 🍵 by Sachi