Raj Panjabi

Raj Panjabi (born February 3, 1981) is an American physician, social entrepreneur, professor and former White House official.

Panjabi served in the Biden Administration from February 2021 - August 2023, most recently as White House senior director for global health security and biodefense on the United States National Security Council. Previously, Panjabi served as the 3rd U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator to lead the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative.

Dr. Panjabi was named as one of the TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2016, one of TIME's 50 Most Influential People in Health Care in 2018, received the 2017 TED Prize, and was listed as one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune in 2015 and in 2017.

Panjabi is the co-founder and former CEO of Last Mile Health and has served as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (part-time) and Brigham and Women's Hospital, visiting faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and Advisor to former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Co-Chair (with former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark) of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.

= Early life and education =

Panjabi's grandparents were refugees from Sindh Province following the British Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, resettling in Mumbai and Indore in India. A generation later, Panjabi's parents migrated to West Africa, where Panjabi was born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia. After civil war broke out in Liberia in 1989, Panjabi, at age nine, and his family fled on a rescue cargo plane to Sierra Leone and eventually sought refuge in the United States, resettling initially with a host family in High Point, North Carolina.

Panjabi graduated with bachelor and medical degrees from the University of North Carolina School at Chapel Hill and received a Masters of Public Health in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School, and trained in internal medicine and primary care at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

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