Past White House adviser Raj Panjabi has written a playbook for 'living room' crises

Dr. Raj Panjabi is the author of Safer: A Playbook. His goal is to help people face a personal crisis — health, workplace, family conflicts — and "turn fear into action."

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5983x3989+0+0/resize/5983x3989!/quality/85/format/webp/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fd8%2F07%2F6436c96041889b49739feb0a0d4d%2Fraj-panjabi.jpg' alt='Raj Panjabi knows a thing or two about living with uncertainty. His family fled Liberia during the civil war, coming to the U.S. when he was 9. And he and his wife faced a crisis when their youngest child was diagnosed with heart failure. A physician, he served as malaria coordinator and then as global health security adviser in the Biden White House during the pandemic.'/><p>Dr. Raj Panjabi is the author of <em>Safer: A Playbook.</em> His goal is to help people face a personal crisis — health, workplace, family conflicts — and "turn fear into action."</p><p>(Image credit: Ben de la Cruz/NPR)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-6021013' />