Raj Panjabi

Dr. Raj Panjabi, U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator, leads the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He is a 2016 TIME 100 honoree

Recent Articles

The World's First Malaria Vaccine Was Approved by the WHO

On Oct. 6, the World Health Organization recommended use of the first vaccine to fight malaria. The decision is momentous and highly anticipated for many reasons: among them is that this is the first vaccine...

By Raj Panjabi

Health Care Workforce

Over 115,000 health and care workers died during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a physician who’s cared for patients with COVID-19, malaria and Ebola, I’ve seen too many colleagues make the ultimate sacrifice on the frontlines....

By Raj Panjabi

Community Health Workers Are Vital; Governments Should Be Paying Them

Illness is universal, health care is not. Over half of the world’s 7.3 billion people, including 1 billion in rural communities, lack access to health care. Approximately 13 million children still go without a single...

By Raj Panjabi
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