Dr. Ashish Jha, who is one of Fortune Magazine’s “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” will kick off the Town Hall 2025-26 season at 7 o’clock tonight at the Paul Shaghoian Concert Hall on the campus of Clovis North High School.

Jha is a global health expert who coordinated the White House’s COVID response in 2022 and 2023. He will address climate change as a public health crisis. His talk is titled “The Heat Is On: The Human Cost of Climate Change.”

He is expected to unpack how extreme heat, air pollution, and emerging diseases are already impacting our bodies, minds, and healthcare systems.

Jha has been dean of the Brown University School of Public Health since 2020. His focus there is on improving the quality and cost of health care, and on the impact of public health policy.

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