Brian Patrick Carandang is a director on the Business and Program Development team at the Milken Institute. He oversees fundraising strategies and partnership engagement across Milken Institute Health, which encompasses FasterCures, Public Health, Future of Aging, and Feeding Change, as well as ongoing health convenings hosted by the Institute. He fosters strategic partnerships with top supporters across the health and health care ecosystem, focusing on initiatives and scaling the Institute’s health programs with key stakeholders ranging from industry, philanthropy, nonprofits, and academia.

Carandang began his career at Direct Relief, where he was responsible for amplifying the organization’s work across social media and operationalizing pharmaceutical donations for outbound shipment to communities affected by poverty or disasters. He holds a dual master's degree as part of the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Consortium, where he studied global studies at the University of Vienna in Austria and Roskilde University in Denmark. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.