Ashish Jha

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Ashish Jha
Ashish Jha, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging (cropped).jpg
Jha in 2014
Born (1970-12-31) December 31, 1970 (age 50)
Madhubani, Bihar, India
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsHealth Policy
Institutions

Ashish Kumar Jha (born December 31, 1970) is an Indian American general internist physician and academic serving as Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.[1] Previously, he was a health scholar, the K. T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, and a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group. Jha is recognized as one of the leading health policy scholars in the nation.[1]

Jha's research centers on improving the quality and cost of health care, focusing on the impact of public health policy.[2]

Education and early career[]

Ashish Kumar Jha was born in Pursaulia, Madhubani, Bihar, India, on December 31, 1970.[3] His family moved to Toronto, Canada in 1979 and to the United States in 1983.[4]

Jha graduated from Boonton High School in Boonton, New Jersey[citation needed] and then attended Columbia University. He graduated from Columbia in 1992 with a B.A. in economics.[5][6] He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1997 and then trained as a resident in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed a Chief Residency year at UCSF. Between 2001 and 2002, he served as the Inaugural Under Secretary's Special Fellow for Quality and Safety in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Jha returned to Boston in 2002 to complete his fellowship in general medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

In 2004, Jha completed his Master of Public Health degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Career[]

Jha delivering a lecture in 2018

Jha worked as the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, as well as a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group. On September 1, 2020, he became the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.[2]

Coronavirus and COVID-19 scholarship[]

In mid-March 2020, Jha called for a two-week national quarantine across the United States to reduce the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.[7] He argued that it takes up to two weeks for those already infected with the virus to begin showing symptoms; given the lack of COVID-19 testing in the U.S., a two-week quarantine would help public health better assess how widespread the disease is to better inform decision-making.[8][9] He has also advocated for the need to vastly strengthen healthcare infrastructure and increase the manufacturing of personal protective equipment to keep healthcare workers safe. He has testified multiple times in front of Congress as an expert helping guide policymakers on how best to help the US navigate the pandemic.[10][11]

Between March 2020 and May 2021, Jha has been mentioned on cable and network news approximately 60,000 times.[12]

Brown University School of Public Health[]

In March of 2020, Jha was appointed the third dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.[13] He assumed the role in September of 2020.[14]

Awards and honors[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b McGowan, Dan (1 September 2020). "One of the best-known public health experts in the world is taking his talents to Brown University". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Accomplished physician, public health scholar named School of Public Health dean at Brown". Brown University. 26 February 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Jha, Ashish". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  4. ^ Boston, 677 Huntington Avenue; Ma 02115 +1495‑1000 (2014-05-13). "The provocative pragmatist". News. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  5. ^ Katz, Jamie (12 June 2020). "Pandemic Expert Dr. Ashish Jha '92: "We Will Get Through This."". Columbia College Today. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  6. ^ Miller, G. Wayne. "Virtual Dr. Jha will answer your COVID questions now". The Providence Journal. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
  7. ^ "Why a top Harvard doctor is calling for a 'national quarantine' to stem the effects of the coronavirus pandemic". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
  8. ^ Ashish Jha, Aaron E. Carroll (2020-03-19). "This Is How We Can Beat the Coronavirus". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-04-01.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  9. ^ Ashish Jha, Aaron E. Carroll (2020-03-23). "Don't Halt Social Distancing. Instead, Do It Right". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-04-01.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  10. ^ "In front of Congress, Dr. Ashish Jha stresses a global approach to ending COVID-19 pandemic". Brown University. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  11. ^ "Dr. Ashish Jha testifies before Congress on nation's bumpy COVID-19 vaccine rollout". Brown University. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  12. ^ "How Ashish Jha became network TV's everyman expert on Covid". STAT. 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  13. ^ King, Kamran (2020-03-10). "University appoints Dr. Ashish Jha as new School of Public Health dean". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
  14. ^ Goetz, Marlene (2020-09-14). "Public health leader Ashish Jha begins as dean of Brown University School of Public Health". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
  15. ^ Scanlon, Jessie (10 December 2020). "Ashish Jha: Speaking out for science and for public health in the pandemic". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  16. ^ "World's 50 Greatest Leaders". Fortune. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-14.

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