Prabhat Jha (epidemiologist)

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Prabhat Jha

Prabhat Jha, OC[1] (born 1965) is an Indian-Canadian scientist working in epidemiology and economics of global health.

Jha was born in Ranchi, India. When he was six years old, his family moved to Winnipeg, Canada, where his father worked as a civil engineer and now is an NDP member of the legislative assembly. Together with an older brother and younger sister he was raised by his mother. After graduating in medicine from the University of Manitoba he defended a PhD in epidemiology and public health at the University of Oxford in England.[2] He then worked as a team leader at the World Bank on developing the Second National HIV/AIDS Control Program in India, and later as a senior scientist in health and poverty at the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health of the World Health Organization.[3]

Upon returning to Canada, Jha became Professor and Endowed Dalla Lana Chair in Disease Control at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. He is also the founding Director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He advised the Government of South Africa on its national health insurance plan, and the United States Institute of Medicine on global health. His research is focused on the causes of premature death in developing countries.[3]

Jha received the Top 40 Canadians under Age 40 Award (2004), the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award (2004), and the Luther Terry Award for Research on Tobacco Control (2012). He is a senior editor of the journal eLife.[3]

Selected publications

  • Prabhat Jha (1999). Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control. World Bank Publications. ISBN 978-0-8213-4519-1. 
  • Prabhat Jha, Frank Chaloupka (eds) (2000) Tobacco Control in Developing Countries, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192632469
  • Dean T Jamison, Joel G Breman, Anthony R Measham, George Alleyne, Mariam Claeson, David B Evans, Prabhat Jha, Anne Mills, and Philip Musgrove (eds) (2006) Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, Washington (DC): World Bank, ISBN 0-8213-6179-1
  • Dean T. Jamison, Joel G. Breman, Anthony R. Measham, George Alleyne, Mariam Claeson, David B. Evans, Prabhat Jha, Anne Mills, Philip Musgrove (eds) (2006) Priorities in Health: Disease Control Priorities Companion Volume, World Bank Publications, ISBN 0821362607
  • Harish Kumar Dhingra; Prabhat Nath Jha; Pratima Bajpai (2011). Current Topics in Biotechnology and Microbiology: Recent Trends. Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-3-8443-2975-9. 
  • "Effects of ramipril on cardiovascular and microvascular outcomes in people with diabetes mellitus: Results of the HOPE study and MICRO-HOPE substudy. Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation Study Investigators". Lancet 355 (9200): 253–259. 2000. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(99)12323-7. PMID 10675071.  1600+ citations in Web of Science as of 2013
  • Black, R. E.; Cousens, S.; Johnson, H. L.; Lawn, J. E.; Rudan, I.; Bassani, D. G.; Jha, P.; Campbell, H.; Walker, C. F.; Cibulskis, R.; Eisele, T.; Liu, L.; Mathers, C. (2010). "Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: A systematic analysis". The Lancet 375 (9730): 1969. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60549-1.  600+ citations in Web of Science as of 2013

References

  1. ↑ Prabhat Jha, University of Toronto
  2. ↑ Marcia Kaye (2011) Saving Lives, One Death at a Time. U of T Magazine
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Prabhat Jha, Senior editor – Epidemiology. elifesciences.org
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