Jaspreet Pannu
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Updated 03/22/26Jaspreet "Jassi" Pannu, MD is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, joining in 2025 after spending approximately a decade at Stanford University. She completed her MD at Stanford School of Medicine, followed by residency training and a health policy subspecialty fellowship at Stanford, and holds an undergraduate degree from McGill University. Her research focuses on biosecurity policy, pandemic preparedness, and the intersection of artificial intelligence and biosecurity, including novel safety testing methods for biological AI models and frameworks to restrict high-risk biological datasets from frontier AI training. Earlier in her career she focused on broad-spectrum antiviral development, authoring work on achieving in-advance antiviral drugs and co-authoring a 2023 paper on programmable antivirals and just-in-time vaccines published in Health Security. She serves on the board of Blueprint Biosecurity and as a Director at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, has been a subject-matter expert for Google, the Frontier Model Forum, and the National Academies of Sciences, and her commentary has appeared in Science, Nature, the New York Times, and TIME Magazine.
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