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'''Ashish Kumar Jha''' (born December 31, 1970) is an [[Indian-American]] [[internal medicine|general internist physician]] and academic who served as the [[White House COVID-19 Response Team|White House COVID-19 response coordinator]] from 2022–2023. He has been Dean of the [[Brown University School of Public Health]] since 2020.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|first1=Dan |last1=McGowan|title=One of the best-known public health experts in the world is taking his talents to Brown University |date=1 September 2020|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/01/metro/one-best-known-public-health-experts-world-is-taking-his-talents-brown-university/|access-date=11 April 2021|language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Finucane|first=Martin|date=August 13, 2020|title=Harvard pandemic expert Ashish Jha takes a more optimistic view of the fall and winter - The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/13/nation/harvard-pandemic-expert-ashish-jha-takes-more-optimistic-view-fall-winter/|access-date=2022-01-30|website=[[The Boston Globe]]|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="brown">{{cite web|date=26 February 2020|title=Accomplished physician, public health scholar named School of Public Health dean at Brown|url=https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-02-26/jha|access-date=2 January 2021|publisher=Brown University}}</ref> Jha's role at Brown University focuses on improving the quality and cost of health care, and on the impact of public health policy.<ref name="brown"/>