Ashish Jha- US COVID Response Chief

March 21, 2022

Ashish Jha, a physician of Indian origin who lives in the United States, has been appointed the new White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator. Jeff Zeints will be replaced by Jha.

Overview:

Jha is a leading health specialist in the United States, and he is recognized for his knowledgeable and calming public presence.
Jha is an infectious disease expert and the Dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health.
He has worked on the ebola virus and served as co-chair of a panel to combat the disease’s breakout in West Africa in 2014.
Jha recently offered advice to the White House on Zients and his team’s national Covid-19 readiness strategy, which was published earlier this month. It explains how people can gradually resume normal activities once the restrictions imposed due to Covid are eased.

Early Life

In 1970, Jha was born in Bihar. He migrated to Canada in 1979, and then to the United States in 1983. He finished his general medical fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and earned his master of public health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2004. He formerly served as the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and taught at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. His work has mostly focused on improving the US healthcare systems, with over 200 empirical papers to his name. From 2009 to 2013, he worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs as a special assistant to the secretary.

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