Dr. Ashish K. Jha

Jha, M.D., MPH, is the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.

Recent Articles

Why You Should Vaccinate Your Kids Against COVID-19

It’s time for my healthy nine-year-old son to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In fact, it’s time for every kid aged five to eleven to get vaccinated. An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration...

By Dr. Ashish K. Jha

The FDA Must Move Faster to Approve the COVID-19 Vaccines

Our nation now confronts a new and uncertain time in the pandemic. Vaccination rates are only inching up, allowing the highly infectious Delta variant to spread among unvaccinated people like an out-of-control wildfire, challenging the...

By Dr. Ashish K. Jha

Vaccinate the World's Health Care Workers

As the United States seems close to controlling a pandemic that has killed 600,000 Americans, we must recognize that in much of the rest of the world, the pandemic continues to rage. Now, with the...

By Dr. Ashish K. Jha

We Need Transparency About COVID-19 Vaccines

The authorization of an effective vaccine will mark perhaps the biggest turning point in the battle against coronavirus, but only if enough people are willing to get vaccinated. There have been substantial declines in public...

By Dr. Ashish K. Jha

America Needs to Rethink Its COVID-19 Testing

America’s testing infrastructure is collapsing. As coronavirus cases surge around the country, laboratories are facing crippling shortages of key supplies and growing backlogs of samples. In many states, it now takes 10-15 days to get...

By Dr. Ashish K. Jha

The Divide Over COVID-19 Testing Threatens Our Progress

COVID-19 is dividing the country in many dangerous – even deadly – ways and now, those divisions threaten to further stall urgently needed action. At a time when science and data must drive policy –...

By Dr. Ashish K. Jha
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