Ashish Jha is an accomplished and practicing physician as well as global leader driving public health research, policy, and practice. In March 2022, he was appointed as the White House COVID-19 response coordinator by U.S. President Joe Biden. From the White House, Jha led the work that increased the development of and access to treatments and newly formulated vaccines, dramatically improved testing and surveillance, rebuilt the United States’ strategic national stockpiles, facilitated major investments in improving indoor air quality, and put in place an infrastructure to respond to current and future disease outbreaks more effectively. In this conversation, Jha shared lessons learned from his work on pandemic preparedness and response, as well as insights from his research on the impact of local and national policy efforts both in the United States and around the world to improve the quality and costs of care that people receive.
This event was hosted through Georgetown University’s Conversations in Health: Global to Local class, which invites global health professionals to Georgetown’s campus to engage in discussions regarding their career paths and expertise.
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Ashish Jha currently serves as dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University. He is one of the most highly cited researchers in the United States, having published more than 300 publications in prestigious medical journals including Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and the BMJ. Before serving as dean, Jha was the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and professor of medicine at Harvard University Medical School. He also served as the director of the Global Health Institute at Harvard University.
John T. Monahan is a professor in the Department of Medicine, a senior advisor for global health to Georgetown University’s President John J. DeGioia, a senior fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy, and a senior scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law.