50 Most Influential Clinical Executives - 2021

Throughout the pandemic, Jha has become one of the nation’s most sought-after experts on the public health emergency, appearing almost daily on newscasts to help suss out the science. Jha became dean at Brown in September 2020. Prior to that, he had spent six years leading the Harvard Global Health Institute. He’s an adjunct professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. Jha has published more than 200 original research studies in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine and the BMJ.