Ashish Jha

Professor Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, spoke with NPR about a simulation that the Harvard Global Health Institute developed and published that generates approximate, state-specific estimates meant to serve as a guide.

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, is an author on the paper published in Health Affairs that has received media attention.

Faculty member Ashish, Jha, MD, is author and lead researcher on a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that takes a “careful and more comprehensive” look at the U.S. healthcare system. Learn about the…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Ashish Jha, MD, is an author on a paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine that has found differences in patient outcomes in those treated by female versus male physicians. Learn more about the study in these news…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Ashish K. Jha, MD, is author on a study that suggests that interventions focused on frail or disabled patients (examples of “high-cost” segments) may be a useful way to help providers control healthcare costs.

Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, shares his thoughts on what he considers to be the main cause of preventable medical mistakes (sloppy system) and what he thinks could help to minimize these sometimes deadly mistakes (a smarter system using more…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Asish Jha, MD, has co-authored a JAMA Viewpoint in which the authors reflect on improvements made over the last 15 years (since the landmark report To Err is Human) and suggest that with better data, valid metrics,…

Pop Center faculty members Amitabh Chandra, PhD, Ashish Jha, MD, Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, Joshua Salomon, PhDJ, SV Subramanian, PhD, and David Williams, PhD, are among the Harvard scholars cited on health inequalities in this Harvard Gazette article, the…

In this JAMA Forum, Ashish Jha, MD, a Harvard Center for Population and Development faculty member, expresses praise – and some words of caution – regarding a new government program dedicated to exploring the social determinants of health. The…

Harvard Pop Center faculty members Ashish Jha, MD, and Jason Block, MD, comment on the challenges that patients can face when in need of hospital care on the weekends and holidays in this Vox article.