Raj Panjabi leads Flagship’s Preemptive Health and Medicine Initiative, which is on a mission to detect and intervene in the progression of disease sooner.
Raj previously served as White House Senior Director, and 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. He played a lead role executing the 2022 National Biodefense Strategy and American Pandemic Preparedness Plan, coordinating over $12 billion in annual investment across 16 federal agencies in biodefense.
Raj is co-founder and former CEO of Last Mile Health, a global organization transforming community health systems.
One of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and TIME’s 50 Most Influential People in Healthcare and twice named to the FORTUNE World’s 50 Greatest Leaders list, Raj has received the TED Prize, Clinton Global Citizen Award, and World Economic Forum’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year award.
He trained in biochemistry, epidemiology and biostatistics, and medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital.