Jassi Pannu

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Jassi Pannu
Other namesJaspreet Pannu
Education McGill University (BSc)
Stanford University (MD)
Scientific career
Fields Biosecurity, Health security, Artificial intelligence
Institutions Stanford University (2014–2025)
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (2025–present)
Academic advisors Tom Inglesby
Website Lab website

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]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pannu worked as a front-line physician. [1] She advocated for increased biosafety and biosecurity oversight of pathogen research due to pandemic risks in the journal Science . [2] [3] Her writing on adapting innovation prizes to incentivize pandemic drug development was highlighted by economist Tyler Cowen. [4] She is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American think tank IFP that bring ideas from progress studies to policymakers. [5]

In 2023, she authored "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, [6] outlining technology approaches that could be used to prevent pandemics entirely. [7]

In 2024, Pannu was part of a group of international scientists and researchers that brought attention to potential future risks of mirror life. [8]

As of 2025, Pannu serves on the board of directors of Biohub. [9] She has published research on the need for governance of artificial intelligence that poses consequential biosecurity risks, [10] which was cited in the International AI Safety Report authored by 96 artificial intelligence experts including Yoshua Bengio. [11] 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. [12]

Her career was highlighted in the book Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 "Jassi Pannu". Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  2. ↑ Pannu, Jaspreet; Palmer, Megan J.; Cicero, Anita; Relman, David A.; Lipsitch, Marc; Inglesby, Tom (16 December 2022). "Strengthen oversight of risky research on pathogens". Science. 378 (6625): 1170–1172. doi:10.1126/science.adf6020 . Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  3. ↑ "Stanford Researchers Recommend Stronger Oversight of Risky Research on". cisac.fsi.stanford.edu. 8 December 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  4. ↑ Cowen, Tyler (1 April 2020). "Running ahead of Pandemics: Achieving In-Advance Antiviral Drugs". Marginal REVOLUTION. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  5. ↑ "Jassi Pannu". Institute for Progress.
  6. ↑ Gates, Bill. "I Worry We're Making the Same Mistakes Again". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  7. ↑ Pannu, Jassi; Swett, Jacob. "What if There Was Never a Pandemic Again?". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  8. ↑ Adamala, Katarzyna P.; Agashe, Deepa; Belkaid, Yasmine; Bittencourt, Daniela Matias de C.; Cai, Yizhi; Chang, Matthew W.; Chen, Irene A.; Church, George M.; Cooper, Vaughn S.; Davis, Mark M.; Devaraj, Neal K.; Endy, Drew; Esvelt, Kevin M.; Glass, John I.; Hand, Timothy W.; Inglesby, Thomas V.; Isaacs, Farren J.; James, Wilmot G.; Jones, Jonathan D. G.; Kay, Michael S.; Lenski, Richard E.; Liu, Chenli; Medzhitov, Ruslan; Nicotra, Matthew L.; Oehm, Sebastian B.; Pannu, Jaspreet; Relman, David A.; Schwille, Petra; Smith, James A.; Suga, Hiroaki; Szostak, Jack W.; Talbot, Nicholas J.; Tiedje, James M.; Venter, J. Craig; Winter, Gregory; Zhang, Weiwen; Zhu, Xinguang; Zuber, Maria T. (20 December 2024). "Confronting risks of mirror life". Science. 386 (6728): 1351–1353. doi:10.1126/science.ads9158.
  9. ↑ "Team, science leadership, board of directors, officers". Biohub. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  10. ↑ Bloomfield, Doni; Pannu, Jaspreet; Zhu, Alex W.; Ng, Madelena Y.; Lewis, Ashley; Bendavid, Eran; Asch, Steven M.; Hernandez-Boussard, Tina; Cicero, Anita; Inglesby, Tom (23 August 2024). "AI and biosecurity: The need for governance". Science. 385 (6711): 831–833. doi:10.1126/science.adq1977.
  11. ↑ Bengio, Yoshua (25 January 2025). "International AI Safety Report". arXiv. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2501.17805 . Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  12. ↑ "Navigating the Benefits and Risks of Publishing Studies of In Silico Modeling and Computational Approaches of Biological Agents and Organisms – A Workshop". www.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  13. ↑ Bregman, Rutger; Moore, Erica (2025). Moral ambition: stop wasting your talent and start making a difference (First ed.). New York: Little, Brown & Company. ISBN   031658035X.


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