Ashish Jha
Ashish Jha | |
|---|---|
| White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator | |
| In office April 5, 2022 – June 30, 2023 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Deputy | Lisa Barclay |
| Preceded by | Jeff Zients |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Dean, Brown University School of Public Health | |
| Assumed office February 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Bess Marcus |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 31, 1970 Madhubani, India |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) Harvard University (MD, MPH) |
Ashish Kumar Jha (born December 31, 1970) is an Indian-American general internist physician and academic who served as the White House COVID-19 response coordinator from 2022–2023. He has been Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health since 2020. Prior to Brown, he was the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, and a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group. Jha is recognized as one of the leading health policy scholars in the nation. Jha's role at Brown University focuses on improving the quality and cost of health care, and on the impact of public health policy.