Ashish Kumar Jha, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
General Internal Medicine

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



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.

Dean
Brown University School of Public Health


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


VA Boston Healthcare System






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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2018 Trends in Racial Disparities in Surgical Readmissions and Strategies to Narrow the Gap 5R21MD011701-02
2017 Trends in Racial Disparities in Surgical Readmissions and Strategies to Narrow the Gap 1R21MD011701-01
2014 Understanding Disparities in Patient-Centered Hospital Care 5R01MD006230-03 1
2014 Identifying Ways to Reduce Readmissions Among Minority-Serving U.S. Hospitals 5R01HL113567-03 2
2013 Identifying Ways to Reduce Readmissions Among Minority-Serving U.S. Hospitals 5R01HL113567-02 2
2013 Understanding Disparities in Patient-Centered Hospital Care 5R01MD006230-02 1
2012 Identifying Ways to Reduce Readmissions Among Minority-Serving U.S. Hospitals 1R01HL113567-01 2
2012 Understanding Disparities in Patient-Centered Hospital Care 1R01MD006230-01A1 1

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  1. Burke LG, Burke RC, Orav EJ, Duggan CE, Figueroa JF, Jha AK. Association of Academic Medical Center Presence With Clinical Outcomes at Neighboring Community Hospitals Among Medicare Beneficiaries. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Feb 01; 6(2):e2254559. PMID: 36723939; PMCID: PMC9892959; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.54559;
     
  2. Tsai TC, Orav EJ, Jha AK, Figueroa JF. National Estimates of Increase in US Mechanical Ventilator Supply During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Aug 01; 5(8):e2224853. PMID: 35917126; PMCID: PMC9346549; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.24853;
     
  3. Rubin EJ, Baden LR, Jha A, Morrissey S. Audio Interview: A Look at the U.S. Government's Covid-19 Strategy. N Engl J Med. 2022 07 21; 387(3):e11. PMID: 35857665
     
  4. Figueroa JF, Katz IT, Hyle EP, Horneffer KE, Nambiar K, Phelan J, Orav EJ, Jha AK. The Association Of HIV With Health Care Spending And Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries. Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 Apr; 41(4):581-588. PMID: 35377765; PMCID: PMC9153068; DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01793;
     
  5. Tsai TC, Jacobson BH, Griggs D, Jha AK, Orav EJ, Epstein AM. Marketplace Health Insurance Ratings: Most Potential Enrollees Have Access To Plans Of Medium Or High Quality. Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 03; 41(3):390-397. PMID: 35254939
     
  6. Lam MB, Friend TH, Erfani P, Orav EJ, Jha AK, Figueroa JF. ACO Spending and Utilization Among Medicare Patients at the End of Life: an Observational Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 10; 37(13):3275-3282. PMID: 35022958; PMCID: PMC9550919; DOI: 10.1007/s11606-021-07183-9;
     
  7. Tsai TC, Jacobson BH, Orav EJ, Jha AK. Association of community-level social vulnerability with US acute care hospital intensive care unit capacity during COVID-19. Healthc (Amst). 2022 Mar; 10(1):100611. PMID: 34979442; PMCID: PMC8692088; DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2021.100611;
     
  8. Tsugawa Y, Dimick JB, Jena AB, Maggard-Gibbons M, Blumenthal DM, Gross N, Jha AK. Comparison of Patient Outcomes of Surgeons Who Are US Versus International Medical Graduates. Ann Surg. 2021 12 01; 274(6):e1047-e1055. PMID: 31850990
     
  9. Figueroa JF, Horneffer KE, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Blankart CR, Bowden N, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Hansen TM, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Pellet L, Orlander D, Penneau A, Schoenfeld AJ, Shatrov K, Skudal KE, Stafford M, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis WP, Tanke M, Jha AK, Papanicolas I. A methodology for identifying high-need, high-cost patient personas for international comparisons. Health Serv Res. 2021 12; 56 Suppl 3:1302-1316. PMID: 34755334; PMCID: PMC8579201; DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13890;
     
  10. Erfani P, Phelan J, Orav EJ, Figueroa JF, Jha AK, Lam MB. Spending outcomes among patients with cancer in accountable care organizations 4 years after implementation. Cancer. 2022 03 01; 128(5):1093-1100. PMID: 34767638; PMCID: PMC8837672; DOI: 10.1002/cncr.34022;
     
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Jeff Zients to Leave as Biden's Covid Czar and Be Replaced by Ashish Jha

The New York Times 3/17/2022

How Ashish Jha became network TV’s everyman expert on Covid

STAT 5/18/2021

‘Deeply disturbing:’ Dr. Ashish Jha reacts to Trump calling COVID death toll ‘fake news’

Boston.com 1/4/2021

One of the best-known public health experts in the world is taking his talents to Brown University

The Boston Globe 9/1/2020

Harvard pandemic expert Ashish Jha takes a more optimistic view of the fall and winter

The Boston Globe 8/13/2020

2009 Society of General Internal Medicine: Young Investigator of the Year
2008 AcademyHealth: Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award
2007 Society of General Internal Medicine: Junior Clinician-Investigator of the Year
2006 Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar
2006 Society of General Internal Medicine: Milton H. Hamolsky Award
1999 University of California, San Francisco: Housestaff Teaching Award
1997 Harvard Medical School: Rose Seegal Prize
1995 Harvard Medical School: Carl W. Walter Research Fellowship
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