Our Mission
To grow the world's expert health knowledge and make it accessible for all
We envision a world where everyone – regardless of language or location – is empowered to make better informed health decisions.
Who we are
Human is a free Question and Answer platform where contributing doctors answer all your health questions.
Problem
99.9% of health knowledge is still not on the internet. Most of it is trapped within doctors' heads in the form of years of experience spent seeing patients, or buried in science papers and thick textbooks that only experts can understand.
Solution
Human gives health experts the power to easily share their knowledge. Having an online voice on an independent content platform multiplies the ability of doctors to help and effect change, from helping individual patients in front of them, to helping populations across the world.
Please note
Our Q&A is not a patient consultation and any information provided herein is not intended to replace consultation with a qualified medical professional. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor immediately. Always seek the advice of your doctor before starting or changing treatment.
Our Story
Human started off as a simple blog in 2016, where doctors and dentists could write educational articles and answer reader questions on an independent and unaffiliated platform.
Today, Human is one of only 8,000 Health-On-The-Net certified websites worldwide and comprises 300 doctors from 33 different specialties actively participating to help readers.
Values and Promises
Our team is made up of like-minded individuals and volunteers who dedicate their time and expertise to supporting Human's mission.
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We will never endorse non-evidence-based health information on our platform
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We will respect the privacy of patient details
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We will never knowingly undermine the doctor-patient relationship and continuity of care
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We will comply with the 8 principles of trusted health information on the internet by HON.
Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board members provide guidance and input on medical questions, content strategy, educational aspects, legal matters, and evolving issues of health education for consumers.
Melanie Ho
Partner, WongPartnership LLP
Ms. Melanie Ho is a lawyer specialising in biomedical regulatory and regularly acts as counsel to various statutory bodies.
Kah Seng Tay
VP of Engineering at drive.ai 2017 - 2019
Director of Engineering at Quora 2011 - 2017
Mr. Tay was the VP of Engineering at drive.ai, Director of Engineering of Quora and CTO of Etacts -- leading engineering teams at these Silicon Valley startups that have achieved unicorn valuations or were acquired. In addition, he has worked at Google, Microsoft and Salesforce during the past 15 years in the United States. He also co-founded and led a not-for-profit organisation previously building a social network for Singapore.
He holds both a Masters of Engineering and a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a passion for artificial intelligence, large-scale infrastructure, knowledge networks and public/private communities.
Testimonials
What our users say
I love that I can ask health questions for free, and get expert opinions from different doctors. As an unaffiliated website, Human gives readers like myself confidence that the medical information provided is unbiased and trustworthy.
Yee Siang
Finding a good, honest dental care provider is a challenging task, especially in a modern country like Singapore. Human has enabled me to reach out to dental professionals who are sincere and enthusiastic about providing the best dental care for their patients.
Priska
Our Vision
The Road Ahead
As the platform grows, we will be able to provide larger and larger audiences to experts, get answers to more and more health questions, and have greater and greater impact on the world.
To do that, we are going to have to expand and improve the platform. Here’s the direction that Human is headed towards:
1. Help billions to live healthier, happier, and longer lives by partnering more experts to share their knowledge.
Today, Human is used by millions around the world. As more experts contribute, we can empower even more people to make decisions and take actions that improve their well-being and health outcomes.
2. Continuously improve answers to important health questions
Our platform will continuously update and improve every set of health questions and answers. Each page on Human has to become the best resource for anyone looking for the answer to that health question.
3. Greater personalisation of content based on your needs and interests
Registered Users get a customised Feed and Weekly Digest according to the interests you select, the doctors you follow, and the posts you read. As you perform more actions on the site, our platform will adapt to your needs and interests to surface even more useful health content for you.
4. Expand Human to even more countries and languages
Human is currently in Singapore, Indonesia, China and Malaysia. We are building a world-class team of machine-learning experts and data scientists, in order to address the unique set of challenges ahead of us.
For example, by using AI to understand the health topic that users and doctors are writing about, we can expertly translate and recommend a doctor's content in English, so as to benefit an Indonesian patient with the same health query.
We are excited to expand Human to even more countries and languages in future, as we continue working towards our mission to grow the world's expert health knowledge and make it accessible to all.