Ms Anjali Gopal

Anjali Gopal is a Research Scientist at MIT, where her work spans technical and policy research at the intersection of biosecurity, pandemic preparedness, and emerging technology. Previously, she worked on investigating wastewater monitoring and metagenomic sequencing approaches for the early detection of novel pandemic threats, and UV-C decontamination and reuse strategies for PPE at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anjali is an alumna of the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and the Ending Bioweapons Fellowship at the Council on Strategic Risks. She has a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley.