Ashish Jha is an Indian American General physician and academic who has been recently appointed as the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. He is an American health scholar, the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, as well as a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group. His research centers on improving the quality and cost of health care, focusing on the impact of public health policy. - from Wikipedia