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Jassi Pannu
Academic and biosecurity expert From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jassi Pannu is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. She specializes in global health security and biosecurity, pandemic prevention and preparedness, and emerging technology security and governance.[1]
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Education and early career
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pannu worked as a front-line physician.[1] Her early work and insights during the COVID-19 pandemic are described in the book Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman.[2][3]
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She has advocated for increased biosafety and biosecurity oversight of pathogen research due to pandemic risks in the journal Science.[4][5] Regarding biological laboratory oversight in the United States, she was quoted in The Economist as expressing concern regarding limited oversight of some private laboratories.[6]
Her writing on adapting innovation prizes to incentivize pandemic drug development was highlighted by economist Tyler Cowen.[7] She is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American think tank IFP that bring ideas from progress studies to policymakers.[8]
In 2023, Pannu coauthored "What if There was Never a Pandemic Again?" in the New York Times as part of a series on pandemic preparedness begun by Bill Gates,[9] outlining technology approaches that could be used to prevent pandemics entirely.[10]
In 2024, Pannu was part of a working group of 38 international scientists and researchers cochaired by Nobel laureate Jack W. Szostak and John Glass that brought attention to potential future risks of mirror life[11][12][13][14] which prompted international press coverage[15][16][17][18] and international government attention[19][20][21].
She has published research on the need for oversight of artificial intelligence that poses consequential biosecurity risks,[22] which was cited in the International AI Safety Report authored by 96 artificial intelligence experts including Yoshua Bengio.[23] She served on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee investigating the benefits and risks of dual-use artificial intelligence approaches for the design of biological systems.[24]
As of 2025, Pannu serves on the board of directors of Biohub,[25] the primary philanthropic effort of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative[26].
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