Ashish Kumar Jha MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine
Dean
72 E. Concord Street mahrokh_irani@brown.edu
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General Internal 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.
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Education
MD, Harvard Medical School
MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
BA, Columbia University
Publications
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.
Published on 3/5/2025Dwivedi 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.
Published on 12/30/2024Jha AK. What Trump and Republican Congress mean for healthcare coverage. BMJ. 2024 Dec 30; 387:q2801. PMID: 39797808.
Published on 8/28/2024Gostin 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.
Published on 2/29/2024Salas 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.
Published on 2/6/2024Daskalakis D, Romanik N, Jha AK. Lessons From the Mpox Response. JAMA. 2024 Feb 06; 331(5):387-388. PMID: 38190180.
Published on 1/1/2024Jha N, Manandhar T, Oli E, Kc P, Jha AK, Karki PS, Hada Batajoo K, Shankar PR. Assessing Drug Utilization in the Emergency Medicine Department at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital Using WHO Drug Use Indicators. Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ). 2024; 22(86):149-153. PMID: 39328102.
Published on 10/30/2023Burke LG, Burke RC, Orav EJ, Bryan AF, Friend TH, Richardson DA, Jha AK, Tsai TC. Trends in performance of hospital outpatient procedures and associated 30-day costs among Medicare beneficiaries from 2011 to 2018. Healthc (Amst). 2023 Dec; 11(4):100718. PMID: 37913606.
Published on 7/26/2023Becerra X, Jha A. Project NextGen - Defeating SARS-CoV-2 and Preparing for the Next Pandemic. N Engl J Med. 2023 Aug 31; 389(9):773-775. PMID: 37494477.
Published on 7/25/2023Jha AK. Preparing the United States for the Next Pandemic. Ann Intern Med. 2023 Sep; 176(9):1277-1278. PMID: 37487211.
Media Mentions
Published on 3/17/2022
Jeff Zients to Leave as Biden's Covid Czar and Be Replaced by Ashish Jha
Published on 5/18/2021
How Ashish Jha became network TV’s everyman expert on Covid
Published on 1/4/2021
‘Deeply disturbing:’ Dr. Ashish Jha reacts to Trump calling COVID death toll ‘fake news’
Published on 9/1/2020
One of the best-known public health experts in the world is taking his talents to Brown University
Published on 8/13/2020
Harvard pandemic expert Ashish Jha takes a more optimistic view of the fall and winter
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