Meet Raj Panjabi, Indian-Origin Man Appointed Global Coordinator For Biden’s Malaria Initiative
Born in Liberia, Panjabi and his family fled the county during its civil war and arrived in the United States as refugees in the 1990s. Twitter Outlook Web Bureau 2021-02-02T08:22:35+05:30 Meet Raj Panjabi, Indian-Origin Man Appointed Global Coordinator For Biden’s Malaria Initiative outlookindia.com 2021-02-02T09:43:57+05:30
US President Joe Biden has once again appointed an Indian-origin man to lead his Malaria Initiative, which is mainly in African and Asian countries. Yes, we are talking about Raj Panjabi.
Soon after the announcement, Raj Panjabi took to Twitter and wrote, “After being sworn in this morning, I m honoured to share that I ve been appointed by Biden as the president s Malaria Coordinator to lead the US president s Malaria Initiative.”
Biden Tips Liberian-Born of Indian Parents to Coordinate Malaria Initiative
Biden Tips Liberian-Born of Indian Parents to Coordinate Malaria Initiative
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Mr. Raj Panjabi, named by US President Joe Biden Monday was born in Liberia. His parents migrated to West Africa, where Panjabi was born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia. After civil war broke out in Liberia in 1989, Panjabi, at age nine, and his family fled on a rescue cargo plane to Sierra Leone and eventually sought asylum in the United States, resettling initially with a host family in High Point, North Carolina.
Washington – US President Joe Biden on Monday named Dr. Raj Panjabi to lead the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI).
COVID-19 and the doomsday clock
Jan 30,2021 - Last updated at Jan 30,2021
OSLO Last January, my fellow Elders Mary Robinson and Ban Ki-moon participated in the unveiling of the Doomsday Clock, the annual indicator of global catastrophic risk published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In 2020, the clock’s hands moved closer to “midnight” than they have ever been, just 100 seconds away, and they will remain there in 2021.
It is hardly reassuring that we came no closer to midnight this year. The COVID-19 pandemic has served as a stark and deadly demonstration of the precariousness of our way of life. We have made remarkable progress on vaccines, and a new US administration brings hope of renewed multilateral cooperation. But there is no doubt that the future will be rife with existential threats: New pandemics, the climate crisis, nuclear conflict and other risks that we cannot ignore.
SINGAPORE - Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is co-chairing a new international panel on the financing of pandemic preparedness and response.
He is one of three co-chairs of the Group of 20 High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, which was proposed under this year s G-20 Italian presidency.
The other two co-chairs are former United States treasury secretary Lawrence Summers, and former Nigerian finance and foreign minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
In a joint press statement on Thursday (Jan 28), the G-20, Bank of Italy and Italian Ministry of Finance said the panel will have two key tasks: to identify gaps in the financing system of the global commons for pandemic prevention, surveillance, preparedness and response; and to propose solutions to meet these gaps and leverage resources from the public, private and philanthropic sectors and international financial institutions.