13 Facts About Larry Brilliant

Larry Brilliant currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Ending Pandemics, and is on the boards of the Skoll Foundation, Salesforce.

Larry Brilliant's father, Joe Brilliant, was a philanthropist and entrepreneur.

Larry Brilliant is the grandson of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, whose surname was originally Brilladentov.

Larry Brilliant moved to California for his internship at the California Pacific Medical Center, and developed parathyroid cancer from which he recovered.

Larry Brilliant is board certified in preventive medicine and public health.

Larry Brilliant participated, as a medical officer, in the World Health Organization smallpox eradication program that in 1980 certified the global eradication of smallpox.

Larry Brilliant found that Indian officials became more receptive to his efforts when they learned of Neem Karoli Baba's involvement, to which he credits a significant portion of the program's success.

Larry Brilliant contributed a seven-page account of his experiences to the book Miracle of Love: Stories of Neem Karoli Baba.

Larry Brilliant spent the first half of 2005 as a volunteer helping out in the tsunami in Sri Lanka and working in India with WHO in the campaign to eradicate polio.

In Spring 2020, Larry Brilliant commented that the World Health Organization, where he had worked for ten years, was slow to declare COVID-19 a pandemic.

Larry Brilliant participates as an advisor to the COVID-19 Technology Task Force, a technology industry coalition founded in March 2020 collaborating on solutions to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Larry Brilliant is married to Girija and has three children: Joe, Jon, and Iris Larry Brilliant.

Larry Brilliant was a close friend of Steve Jobs and visited him often during the last year of his life.