Board of Directors

Dr. Raj Panjabi is one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, a renowned physician, entrepreneur, and former White House official. Panjabi served as White House senior director, leading the pandemic and biological threats office for President Biden at the National Security Council. He played a pivotal role in the largest global vaccination campaign in history against COVID-19 and numerous infectious disease outbreak responses. He oversaw White House efforts to prevent the next pandemic, including playing a lead role in implementing the National Biodefense Strategy, American Pandemic Preparedness Plan, President’s Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing, and the U.S. Global Health Security Act. Panjabi also led the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative. He is entrepreneur in residence at Emerson Collective, co-founder at Last Mile Health, and on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Twice listed as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by FORTUNE and named one of TIME’s 50 Most Influential People in Healthcare, Panjabi has received the TED Prize, Clinton Global Citizen Award, Skoll Award for Social Innovation, and World Economic Forum’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year award.