Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH.

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH.

Keynote Speaker: Dean of Brown University School of Public Health

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Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. Biography

A global leader driving public health research, policy, and practice, Dr. Jha is a trusted expert on major issues impacting public health, and a catalyst for new thinking and approaches. As a long-time leader on 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 policy makers around the world.

President Joe Biden appointed Dr. Jha as White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator in March 2022, 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.

An accomplished and practicing physician, Dr. Jha joined the Brown School of Public Health as dean in September 2020. Before joining the Brown School of Public Health, Dr. Jha was a faculty member at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health since 2004 and at Harvard Medical School since 2005. He was the Faculty Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute from 2014 until September 2020. From 2018 to 2020, he also served as the Dean for Global Strategy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. A general internist previously with the West Roxbury VA in Massachusetts, Dr. Jha has continued his practice at the Providence VA Medical Center.

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.

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. Jha was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.

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Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. Speaking Topics

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE PANDEMIC?

What have we learned from COVID-19? What did the pandemic expose, and teach us, here and around the globe?

Is the US, the world, better prepared for future health crises?

  • Can we, will we, ensure that when future outbreaks happen, it doesn’t lead to loss of lives and livelihoods? If yes, how?
  • What is the responsibility of the private sector? The role of government? Our international obligations?
  • What does history tell us about post-pandemic changes that shape societies?

THE ICEBERG OF RISING HEALTH CARE COSTS: HOW WE STOP IT FROM SINKING OUR ECONOMY (Because it will)

Runaway health care spending now threatens to sink our economy

  • Eating into wage growth while ballooning the costs of overall worker compensation; bad for workers and businesses
  • Swallowing state budgets, forcing deep cuts in other essential services and priorities
  • Straining federal budget

What’s driving these rising costs?

Why do policymakers keep getting the solutions wrong?

And what is the agenda for action?

  • What can policymakers do? What about businesses? Individuals?

CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH: A NOXIOUS CONNECTION

Climate change is often seen as an environmental problem, which of course it is. But, It is also the most urgent, overlooked threat to health.

The connection is real, immediate, and deadly.

How climate change impacts health:

  • Drought => Famine => Migration => Disease spread
  • More respiratory illness
  • Heat-related illness

Solutions demand new connections between scientists and policy makers. Beyond reducing carbon pollution, what should healthcare systems be doing?

  • Mitigation by healthcare systems – reducing their own footprint
  • Understanding how climate change is going to drive big impacts on population health
  • Building climate resilient healthcare systems
  • Building climate sensitive population health strategies.
  • The role of governments, businesses and non-profit organizations in solutions

CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MAKE US HEALTHIER?

Artificial Intelligence and its Application to Medicine and Public Health

  • What are the major tools of AI that might actually be useful? How? When? Where?
  • What are the challenges of AI – to providers, patients, health care systems?
  • What are the risks that are not being adequately understood or captured?
  • The role of AI in transforming health and healthcare not just in the US but around the globe

KEEPING EMPLOYEES HEALTHY AT WORK

  • COVID has taught us a lot about how we can keep people healthy at work
  • Respiratory infections – COVID, flu, RSV, and others have a large impact on worker health, missed days of work, etc.
  • When employees’ kids get sick at school, that can impact their work
  • We now have tools to effectively manage respiratory infections – during typical respiratory infection seasons as well during crisis times
  • The role of Indoor Air Quality in keeping people healthy
  • Other strategies such as testing and treatments that can make a big difference
  • 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

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. Videos

Dean’s Conversation Series with Ron Klain
Three Questions With Dr. Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH
Keynote Remarks: Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, Dean, Brown School of ...

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What topics does Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. speak about?

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Healthcare, Public Health, Research & Exploration, Medicine, Health, Professors, Virtual and World Affairs.

Where does Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. travel from?

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. generally travels from Providence, RI, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.

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Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Healthcare, Public Health and Research & Exploration. Please contact us for live or virtual event fee details. Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. generally travels from Providence, RI, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Marty Makary, M.D., David Agus and Dr. Joel Selanikio. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. for an upcoming event.

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Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. Speaking Topics

  • WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE PANDEMIC?

    What have we learned from COVID-19? What did the pandemic expose, and teach us, here and around the globe?

    Is the US, the world, better prepared for future health crises?

    • Can we, will we, ensure that when future outbreaks happen, it doesn’t lead to loss of lives and livelihoods? If yes, how?
    • What is the responsibility of the private sector? The role of government? Our international obligations?
    • What does history tell us about post-pandemic changes that shape societies?

  • THE ICEBERG OF RISING HEALTH CARE COSTS: HOW WE STOP IT FROM SINKING OUR ECONOMY (Because it will)

    Runaway health care spending now threatens to sink our economy

    • Eating into wage growth while ballooning the costs of overall worker compensation; bad for workers and businesses
    • Swallowing state budgets, forcing deep cuts in other essential services and priorities
    • Straining federal budget

    What’s driving these rising costs?

    Why do policymakers keep getting the solutions wrong?

    And what is the agenda for action?

    • What can policymakers do? What about businesses? Individuals?

  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH: A NOXIOUS CONNECTION

    Climate change is often seen as an environmental problem, which of course it is. But, It is also the most urgent, overlooked threat to health.

    The connection is real, immediate, and deadly.

    How climate change impacts health:

    • Drought => Famine => Migration => Disease spread
    • More respiratory illness
    • Heat-related illness

    Solutions demand new connections between scientists and policy makers. Beyond reducing carbon pollution, what should healthcare systems be doing?

    • Mitigation by healthcare systems – reducing their own footprint
    • Understanding how climate change is going to drive big impacts on population health
    • Building climate resilient healthcare systems
    • Building climate sensitive population health strategies.
    • The role of governments, businesses and non-profit organizations in solutions

  • CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MAKE US HEALTHIER?

    Artificial Intelligence and its Application to Medicine and Public Health

    • What are the major tools of AI that might actually be useful? How? When? Where?
    • What are the challenges of AI – to providers, patients, health care systems?
    • What are the risks that are not being adequately understood or captured?
    • The role of AI in transforming health and healthcare not just in the US but around the globe

  • KEEPING EMPLOYEES HEALTHY AT WORK

    • COVID has taught us a lot about how we can keep people healthy at work
    • Respiratory infections – COVID, flu, RSV, and others have a large impact on worker health, missed days of work, etc.
    • When employees’ kids get sick at school, that can impact their work
    • We now have tools to effectively manage respiratory infections – during typical respiratory infection seasons as well during crisis times
    • The role of Indoor Air Quality in keeping people healthy
    • Other strategies such as testing and treatments that can make a big difference
    • 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

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. Videos

Dean’s Conversation Series with Ron Klain
Three Questions With Dr. Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH
Keynote Remarks: Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, Dean, Brown School of ...
Keynote Remarks: Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, Dean, Brown School of ...
The Fifth Annual Richard V. Lee, MD, MPH Lectureship in Global ...

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. Reviews

  • NRC Health - Mar 11 2022

  • "Dr. Ashish Jha was one of the highest-rated speakers to ever present to our leadership team. He provided an invaluable perspective on the continued impact of COVID-19 on our industry and our country; and he was incredibly conversational and approachable, which led to a terrific Q&A session following his talk.”
    Senior Vice President Marketing & Communications - Nov 03 2020

  • How do I book Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. to speak at my event?

    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH., or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. or any other speaker of your choice.
  • How much does it cost to book Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. for a speaking engagement?

    Speaking fees for Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH., or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. For the most current speaking fee to hire Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH., click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. speak about?

    Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Healthcare, Public Health, Research & Exploration, Medicine, Health, Professors, Virtual and World Affairs.
  • Where does Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. travel from?

    Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. generally travels from Providence, RI, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.
  • Who is the agent for Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH.?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.
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