Influential Health Care Leader, Entrepreneur and Former White House Official
Named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and Fortune’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Dr. Raj Panjabi served on the White House National Security Council as Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense, overseeing responses to Ebola, COVID-19, and polio. He previously led the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative and co-founded Last Mile Health.
Today, he is a Senior Partner at Flagship Pioneering, a physician at Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham, and an Entrepreneur in Residence at Emerson Collective.
His leadership has earned him the 2017 TED Prize, the Clinton Global Citizen Award, and the World Economic Forum’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year honor, and Forbes named him one of America’s 250 Greatest Living Immigrants. He is also the author of Safer: A Playbook for Turning Fear into Action and Crisis into Community, drawing on decades of experience navigating high-stakes challenges across medicine, public health, and government.
