A Moment in Health

Dr. Ashish Jha unpacks the key issues influencing your health right now, guiding you through this moment in personal and public health.

By Ashish K Jha

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America’s health care boom: More administrators, fewer doctors

Celebrating this job growth hides an expensive administrative bloat.
Jun 2 • Ashish K Jha

Building resilience to the effects of climate change: My time at the Vatican

I had the great honor earlier last month to join colleagues from around the world at the Vatican, advising the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on…
May 30 • Ashish K Jha

Drug prices in US are too high. Here’s how to lower them.

The gap between US drug prices and those abroad is not a market outcome — it is the result of deliberate political and regulatory choices.
May 19 • Ashish K Jha and Irene Papanicolas

The system didn’t catch the hantavirus threat. Biology saved us.

The cruise ship outbreak reveals how vulnerable the United States remains to infectious diseases despite lessons from COVID.
May 14 • Ashish K Jha and Nikki Romanik

Discussing the hantavirus outbreak on PBS NewsHour

You have probably been reading about the hantavirus outbreak linked to the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius — with 9 confirmed cases and three deaths.
May 13 • Ashish K Jha

To lower health care costs, fix who does the work

Letting nurses, pharmacists, and AI handle routine care could make the system cheaper and more efficient.
May 5 • Ashish K Jha and Thomas Tsai