Ashish Jha

Ashish Jha (born December 31, 1970) is an Indian American general internist physician and academic who was appointed as the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health beginning 1 September 2020.[1] Previously, he was an American health scholar, the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, as well as a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group.

Dr. Ashish Jha
Dr. Ashish Jha testifying to a Senate subcommittee in July of 2014
Born (1970-12-31) December 31, 1970
Madhubani, Bihar, India
Alma materColumbia University, AB, 1992
Harvard Medical School, MD, 1997
Harvard School of Public Health, MPH, 2004
Scientific career
FieldsHealth Policy
InstitutionsBrown University School of Public Health (September 2020)
Albright Stonebridge Group

His research centers on improving the quality and cost of health care, focusing on the impact of public health policy.[1][2]

Education and early career

Jha graduated from Columbia University in 1992.[3] 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 returned to Boston to complete his fellowship in General Medicine from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In 2004, he completed his Master of Public Health degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He originally hails from Madhubani, Bihar, India. He was born in Bihar in 1970 and moved to Toronto, Canada in 1979. He moved to the United States in 1983 and has lived there ever since.[4]

Career

Jha worked as the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the 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.[1]

Coronavirus and COVID-19 scholarship

In mid-March 2020, Dr. Jha called for a two-week national quarantine across the United States to reduce the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] Jha's argument is that it takes up to two weeks for those who are already infected with the novel coronavirus 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.[6][7] 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.

On November 19, 2020, Dr. Jha testified about Covid-19 treatments to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs about early outpatient treatments.[8]

Awards and honors

References
  1. "Accomplished physician, public health scholar named School of Public Health dean at Brown". Brown University. 26 February 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  2. "Investigation: Joint Commission rarely revokes accreditation from hospitals that put patients at risk | FierceHealthcare". fiercehealthcare.com. Retrieved 2017-09-14. In March 2020, Brown University named Jha its new dean of the school of public health
  3. Katz, Jamie. "Pandemic Expert Dr. Ashish Jha '92: "We Will Get Through This."". Columbia College Today. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  4. Boston, 677 Huntington Avenue; Ma 02115 +1495‑1000 (2014-05-13). "The provocative pragmatist". News. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  5. "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.
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. Ashish K. Jha, Testimony to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  9. Scanlon, Jessie (10 December 2020). "Ashish Jha: Speaking out for science and for public health in the pandemic". Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
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