Ashish Jha

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Testing for COVID-19.

Time to resume COVID restrictions in some safe states?

As school year nears, expert notes recent upticks, speed of virus’ spread

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DateAugust 3, 2020August 4, 2020

People looking at smartphones.

Battling the ‘pandemic of misinformation’

Ubiquity of social media has made it easier to spread or even create COVID-19 falsehoods, making the work of public health officials harder

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DateMay 8, 2020May 11, 2020

empty subway.

On-again, off-again looks to be best social-distancing option

Chan School coronavirus analysis finds strategy would prevent overwhelming hospitals while building immunity

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DateMarch 27, 2020

Screen shot of data from the model.

App predicts hospital capacity

New tool will help leaders make informed decisions as hospitals prepare for COVID-19 patients

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DateMarch 18, 2020March 19, 2020

Ashley Nunes at the podium

The algorithm will see you now

Symposium examines promise, hype of artificial intelligence in health care

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DateFebruary 28, 2019February 28, 2019

Keynote speaker Piyush Tewari speaks about his cousin's death in a hit-and-run that prompted him to create the SaveLIFE Foundation during a half-day symposium on traffic safety around the globe.

Reducing a global killer: Traffic accidents

Harvard symposium examines ways to tackle road conditions and mistakes that took 1.25 million lives in 2013

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DateMay 1, 2018October 3, 2018

Framed by large photos set up for the event, Summon Chaudhury, left, and Julie Rioux attend the global health forum at the T.H. Chan School.

‘Stay engaged’ to aid global health

U.S. needs to remain a key leader in efforts to curb disease, unsafe conditions, panelists say

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DateOctober 27, 2017October 27, 2017

Jennifer Leaning delivers the keynote address during the Harvard Global Health Institute symposium on Climate Change, Migration and Health, inside the Knafel Center (Radcliffe Gym).

Another climate change concern: Forced migration

Increasingly, links seen between those two compelling concerns, analysts say

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DateSeptember 29, 2017September 29, 2017

Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy delivered the keynote address at the Climate Week symposium "Human Health in a Changing Climate," in which she joined a growing chorus of academics, scientists, and public servants urging scientists to raise their voices on climate change.

Fighting words from former EPA leader

McCarthy urges scientists to raise their voices on climate change

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DateApril 28, 2017April 28, 2017

Dan Schrag (from left) moderates a panel with Edward Glaeser, David Bloom, Michael McElroy, and Rohini Pande at a climate conference that yielded some surprising views.

Global concerns on climate change

Harvard experts gather to discuss urgency, complexity of growing problem

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DateNovember 17, 2016May 1, 2019

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry helped launch a joint initiative between the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Harvard University Center for the Environment, an effort focused on the global health impacts of climate change.

Targeting the ills of climate change

New initiative on health effects brings Kerry to campus

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DateMay 6, 2016March 15, 2019

The costs of inequality: Money = quality health care = longer life

Federal insurance has helped many, but system’s holes limit gains, Harvard analysts say

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DateFebruary 22, 2016March 4, 2019

In many ways, “we got lucky. If this had been a different virus, it could have been dramatically worse,” said Harvard Professor Ashish Jha of the 2013-14 Ebola outbreak.

Ebola outbreak: A system that failed

Harvard professor explains how to prevent the next pandemic

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DateNovember 13, 2015March 8, 2019

Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, believes Harvard itself may have arrived at a global health moment, one in which its talent, leadership, and student passion make a dramatic impact.

New realities in care

Director of Global Health Institute considers a world of rapid connections

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DateNovember 2, 2015

“You can pick up an infection in Mumbai, feel perfectly well and get on a plane, get off in Manhattan without showing any signs of illness. It’s just the world we live in,” said Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, professor of medicine, and K.T. Li Professor of International Health, during a Radcliffe Institute symposium.

Bringing global health home

After 5 years, institute outlines recent successes, rising challenges that face everyone

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DateSeptember 11, 2015March 8, 2019

Quality missing from global health agenda

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DateAugust 13, 2014

Samrit Srithamrongsawat, the deputy secretary general of Thailand’s National Health Security Office, delivered the keynote speech at the inaugural State of Global Health Symposium, “Transforming Health Systems for Universal Health Care” (photo 1). Other symposium panelists included Ashish Jha (from left, photo 2), Rifat Atun, William Hsaio, and Wafaie Fawzi.

The context of health care for all

HSPH panelists note common challenges in implementation efforts

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DateApril 17, 2014

Experts share global health stories

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DateDecember 9, 2013

Jha, Mello elected to Institute of Medicine

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DateOctober 23, 2013July 26, 2019

Millions harmed each year from unsafe medical care

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DateSeptember 20, 2013

Hospital readmission rates linked with quality of surgical care

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DateSeptember 19, 2013

Doctors, hospitals increasing use of electronic health records

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DateJuly 15, 2013

New strategies needed to curb costs among expensive Medicare patients

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DateJuly 2, 2013

Performance on certain conditions may predict broader hospital care quality

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DateJuly 1, 2013

Rising death rates at rural hospitals suggest need for improvements

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DateApril 10, 2013

Experts discuss similarities, differences between U.S., India health systems

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DateJanuary 2, 2013March 21, 2019

The results of a Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study suggest that "the way we have currently conceived of pay-for-performance is unlikely to have any meaningful impact on patient outcomes,” said lead author of the study Ashish Jha, associate professor of health policy and management at HSPH. A view of the Kresge Building at HSPH.

Paying hospitals to improve doesn’t work

HSPH study finds policymakers should focus on new incentives

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DateMarch 28, 2012April 16, 2019

Electronic medical records not a panacea?

Study says they alone have limited ability to control costs, improve quality

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DateApril 6, 2010June 17, 2019

U.S. hospitals slow to adopt electronic health records, citing cost

Stimulus money may help, but widespread implementation long way away

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DateMarch 25, 2009