Dr. Raj Panjabi

Dr. Panjabi is a former White House Senior Director and globally recognized as a distinguished authority in healthcare, public policy, entrepreneurship, and technology.  Raj served as President Biden’s top pandemic and health official at the National Security Council, where he played a pivotal role in the largest vaccination campaign in history against COVID-19 and responses to public health crises, including mpox, influenza and Ebola.

Previously, Raj led the President’s Malaria Initiative, helping launch the world’s first malaria vaccine, create a strategy to prevent 1 billion cases, and manage a $800 million enterprise protecting 700 million people across 30 countries. Raj is co-founder and former CEO of Last Mile Health, a global organization transforming community health systems. Raj has been a senior advisor to several biotech companies and has served on the boards of private sector companies, non- profits, and other initiatives.

He currently serves on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham and is senior partner at Flagship Pioneering. He serves on the boards of WHO Foundation, Skoll Foundation, Last Mile Health, among others, and on the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense.