Dr. Raj Panjabi

Dr. Panjabi is responsible for leading Flagship’s Preemptive Health and Medicine Initiative, which is pioneering a new field to protect, maintain, or improve people’s health before they get sick. 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 boards of WHO Foundation, Skoll Foundation, Last Mile Health, among others, and on the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense.