Professional Profile
Dr. Pannu is a Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Her primary research interests include global health security and biosecurity, pandemic prevention and preparedness, and emerging infectious diseases. At the Center, she works on US government-oriented projects, including drafting recommendations regarding biosecurity policy.
Dr. Pannu also is a physician and postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, where she completed her medical degree and internal medicine residency. She is a licensed and board-certified internal medicine physician who also is licensed in Uganda, where she has worked at national referral hospitals treating patients with HIV and other infectious diseases.
Dr. Pannu has participated in the design, management, and publication of results for clinical trials of therapeutics and medical devices, and she previously worked at Google on AI-enabled diagnostics and medical devices. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she served as a consultant to the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, helping to draft The Apollo Program for Biodefense, a roadmap for investing in US capabilities to prevent and respond to future biological threats. Dr. Pannu’s publications have been featured in the journals Science, Nature, The Lancet Global Health, and Health Security, among others. She serves as an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security.
