Faculty Director
Harvard Global Health Institute
Harvard University
Other Affiliations: Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, VA Boston Healthcare SystemF
Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, is the Dean for Global Strategy and K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. He is also a practicing General Internist at the VA Boston Healthcare System and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jha received his MD from Harvard Medical School and then trained in Internal Medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. He completed his General Medicine fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School and received his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research endeavors focus on improving the quality and costs of health care systems with a specialized focus on the impact of policies. Dr. Jha has published over two hundred empirical papers and writes regularly about ways to improve health care systems, both in the U.S. and globally. Dr. Jha was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.