Dr. Raj Panjabi is a distinguished authority in health care, public policy, entrepreneurship and technology. He is Senior Partner at Flagship Pioneering, where he leads Preemptive Health and Medicine, an initiative leveraging AI and biotechnology to pioneer a new field that protects people’s health before they get sick. He is also on faculty at Harvard Medical School.Panjabi served in the Biden-Harris Administration (2021-2023). As White House Senior Director and Special Assistant to the President, he served as the top health official at the National Security Council. 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. He played a lead role executing the 2022 National Biodefense and American Pandemic Preparedness Plans, coordinating over $12 billion in annual investment across 16 federal agencies in biodefense, including disease surveillance, diagnostics, medicines, vaccines and health systems. Panjabi helped oversee implementation of the President’s 2022 Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation. Panjabi oversaw implementation of the 2022 U.S. Global Health Security Act, authorizing $5 billion, expanding health investments across 50 countries. He co-developed the President’s COVID-19 and health security initiatives with the G7 and G20, including organizing Presidential Summits, launching the Pandemic Fund at the World Bank, negotiating the WHO Pandemic Accord and International Health Regulations, and upholding the UN Biological Weapons Convention. Panjabi has held top executive roles. Leading the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative, he helped launch the world’s first malaria vaccine, create a strategy to prevent 1 billion cases and manage an ~$800 million enterprise protecting 700 million people across 30 countries. He is Co-Founder and was CEO of Last Mile Health, which leverages digital technology to train thousands of community healthcare providers serving millions of people.Panjabi has cared for outpatients on Medicaid/Medicare in federally qualified health centers pioneering value-based care and inpatients at Massachusetts General and Brigham & Women’s Hospitals. Panjabi has served as board member and advisor to leading companies, foundations and organizations, and as Entrepreneur In Residence at Emerson Collective.One of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and TIME’s 50 Most Influential People in Healthcare, he was twice named to FORTUNE’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders list.