Jan 13 2025
One of the most respected and dynamic global leaders on issues affecting people’s health, Dr. Ashish Jha was the White House’s COVID-19 Response Coordinator, current Dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, and a respected keynote speaker.
A global leader driving public health research, policy, and practice, Dr. Ashish Jha is a trusted expert on major issues impacting public health, and a catalyst for new thinking and approaches. He is also well-known for his keynote and motivational speaking. Ashish Jha is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Ashish Jha’s fees.
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Dr. Jha was born in Pursaulia, Bihar, India in 1970. He moved to Toronto, Canada in 1979 and then to the United States in 1983. In 1992 Dr. Jha graduated Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in economics. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1997 and then trained as a resident in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
He returned to Boston to complete his fellowship in General Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In 2004, he completed his Master of Public Health degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and became a faculty member for the school. The following year, he also became faculty at Harvard Medical School. At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, his research focused on improving the quality of health care and addressing the high cost of healthcare in the United States. In 2013, Ashish was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
He was the Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute from 2014 to 2020. From 2018 to 2020, he also served as the Dean for Global Strategy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
An accomplished and practicing physician, Dr. Jha joined the Brown School of Public Health as dean in September 2020. As Dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, Dr. Jha is leading initiatives to confront the public health impacts of climate change, rising healthcare costs, the challenges with misinformation, and how to translate the lessons learned in COVID-19 to improve preparedness and response to future health threats. During his tenure, the school has expanded its programs, physical footprint, and faculty.
In March of 2022, President Joe Biden appointed Dr. Jha as the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, describing him as “one of the leading public health experts in America.” At the White House, Dr. Jha led the work that increased the development of and access to treatments and newly formulated vaccines, dramatically improved testing and surveillance, facilitated major investments in indoor air quality measures, and put in place an infrastructure to respond to current and future disease outbreaks more effectively.
Dr. Jha received bipartisan praise for his pragmatic approach to public health that, in the words of President Biden, “translates…complex scientific challenges into concrete actions” that help improve millions of lives.
As a long-time leader in pandemic preparedness and response, from directing groundbreaking research on Ebola to serving on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, he has led national and international analysis of key issues and advised local and federal policymakers around the world.
He is also a frequent contributor to a range of nonpartisan public media. Dr. Jha has published nearly three hundred original research publications in prestigious journals and has consistently been ranked in the top 1% of most cited researchers. He is also a frequent contributor to a range of public media across the political spectrum, focused on how science and evidence can be used to craft better policy and improve health both in the US and around the globe.
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Dr. Ashish Jha’s keynotes are evidence-based and scientific yet timely, relevant, and highly accessible to a wide range of audiences in medicine, health, and business. Set up a pre-conference call with Ashish and the MPG team to discuss the specifics of your event and have him tailor his keynote to your audience.
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Artificial Intelligence and its Application to Medicine and Public Health
Respiratory infections like COVID, the flu, RSV, and others, have a large impact on worker health and business productivity. However, COVID has taught us a lot about how we can keep people healthy at work.
Ultimately, this talk is focused on employers who understand typical respiratory seasons are disruptive – and a bad season can be even more so. But we now have the tools to manage it far more effectively.
What did we learn from COVID-19? Even more, what did the pandemic expose, and teach us, here and around the globe?
Throughout the presentation, Dr. Jha was profoundly knowledgeable, spoke about current information with comfort and command of the topic, was flexible to adapt to the questions, and most importantly, had a kind of humanity and approachability with his style that made the content attractive and digestible. He personalized some of his remarks and made the topic easier for folks to understand. In short, Dr. Jha did a great job and we are supremely grateful.
For what it’s worth, his role in promoting public health understanding may be among the most important roles for public health people. We need more people like Dr. Jha. – Salesforce
Thank you so much for presenting at the House Education & Labor Committee’s Member Briefing on Building a Community-Based Contact Tracing Workforce. Our Committee Members and staff enjoyed engaging with you during the briefing. You provided great insight on contact tracing and the COVID-19 pandemic, and your responses to Members’ questions were excellent! – House Committee on Energy & Commerce
Please tell Dr. Jha that the audience response was terrific. They loved how substantive the conversation was and the rapport between the panelists. And he personally was great – as he always is. We hope very much that we can draw on his expertise again in the future. – U.S. News
For the last year, I have relied on Dr. Ashish Jha to help me as the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator. As one of the leading public health experts in America, he has effectively translated and communicated complex scientific challenges into concrete actions that helped save and improve the lives of millions of Americans. – President Joe Biden
