Ashish Kumar Jha, MD

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Ashish Kumar Jha is an Indian American general internist physician and academic serving as Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. 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. Dr. Jha is recognized as one of the leading health policy scholars in the nation.

Dr. Jha's research centers on improving the quality and cost of health care, focusing on improving the quality and costs of healthcare systems with a specialized focus on the impact of policies. Dr. Jha has published over two hundred papers in prestigious journals and heads a personal blog which focuses on using statistical data research to improve health quality. Dr. Jha is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Publications

  • Published 3/20/2025

    Jha AK. Advancing Nuclear Medicine through Discovery, Invention, and Innovation - Contribution of a Physicist and Scientist (Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Oration-2023). Indian J Nucl Med. 2024; 39(6):421-427. PMID: 40291361.

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  • Published 3/5/2025

    Dwivedi P, Barage S, Jha AK, Choudhury S, Rangarajan V. Robustness of 18F-FDG PET Radiomic Features in Lung Cancer: Impact of Advanced Reconstruction Algorithm. J Nucl Med Technol. 2025 Mar 05; 53(1):50-56. PMID: 39909582.

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  • Published 12/30/2024

    Jha AK. What Trump and Republican Congress mean for healthcare coverage. BMJ. 2024 Dec 30; 387:q2801. PMID: 39797808.

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  • Published 8/28/2024

    Gostin LO, Jha AK, Finch A. The Mpox Global Health Emergency - A Time for Solidarity and Equity. N Engl J Med. 2024 Oct 10; 391(14):1265-1267. PMID: 39197094.

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  • Published 2/29/2024

    Salas RN, Burke LG, Phelan J, Wellenius GA, Orav EJ, Jha AK. Impact of extreme weather events on healthcare utilization and mortality in the United States. Nat Med. 2024 Apr; 30(4):1118-1126. PMID: 38424213.

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Other Positions

  • Dean
    Brown University School of Public Health
  • Professor, Health Services, Policy and Practice
    Brown University School of Public Health

Education

  • Harvard Medical School, MD
  • Harvard School of Public Health, MPH
  • Columbia University, BA