Jassi Pannu is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Senior Scholar at the Center for Health Security, an internationally recognized center that investigates how policy approaches, scientific advances, and technological innovations can strengthen health security. At the Center, she leads pioneering policy research and technology development at the intersection of artificial intelligence and biosecurity, including novel methods for safety testing of biological AI models. Her research and writing have been published by Science, Nature, the New York Times, and RAND, among others.
Pannu is a board-certified physician who completed her medical training, residency, and health policy subspecialty fellowship at Stanford University. Her international frontline clinical work informs her deep commitment to advancing technology and policy approaches to prevent, detect, and treat disease worldwide. Pannu has served as a subject-matter expert for Google, the Frontier Model Forum, the National Academies of Sciences, the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, and regularly briefs officials on emerging biotechnologies with security implications. She serves on the board of Blueprint Biosecurity, a nonprofit dedicated to achieving breakthroughs in humanity’s ability to prevent pandemics.