Dr. Ashish Jha is one of the nation’s leading experts on public health, especially pandemic response. He advised both the Trump and Biden administrations on how to deal with COVID-19.

Currently, Jha is dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. He recently delivered a lecture in Fresno as part of the San Joaquin Valley Town Hall series. GV Wire spoke with him for a podcast.

You can listen to the podcast at this link.

On Public Health

GV Wire asked Jha to define public health.

“I think about public health as all those factors and forces that shape the health of individuals and populations. Everything from the environment to the food supply to health policy — there’s a lot of things that end up affecting our health. We always think of health as only about individual choices,

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