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Ashish Jha
Brown School of Public Health
Dean
A global leader driving public health research, policy, and practice, Dr. Jha joined the Brown School of Public Health
as Dean in September 2020.
An accomplished and practicing physician, Dr. Jha is recognized globally as a trusted expert on major issues
impacting public health, and a catalyst for new thinking and approaches. A long-time leader on pandemic
preparedness and response, from directing groundbreaking research on Ebola to serving on the frontlines of the
COVID-19 response, he has led national and international analysis of key issues and advised local and federal
policy makers around the world.
President Joe Biden appointed Dr. Jha as White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator in March 2022, describing
him as “one of the leading public health experts in America.” Dr. Jha led the work that increased the development of
and access to treatments and newly formulated vaccines, dramatically improved testing and surveillance, facilitated
major investments in Indoor Air Quality measures, and put in place an infrastructure to respond to current and future
disease outbreaks more effectively. He has received bipartisan praise for his pragmatic approach to public health
that, in the words of President BIden, “translates…complex scientific challenges into concrete actions” that help
improve millions of lives.
Dr. Jha has published more than two hundred original research publications in prestigious journals such as the New
England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and the BMJ, and is a frequent contributor to a range of public media. He has
extensively researched how to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care, focusing on the impact of
public health policy nationally and around the globe. Dr. Jha is currently the Dean of the School of Public Health at
Brown University. Before that, he was a faculty member at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and
Harvard Medical School since 2005. He was the Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and also served as
the Dean for Global Strategy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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