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'''Prabhat Jha''', MD OC,{{Post-nominals|country=CAN|MD OC}}<ref name=r1/><ref name=r2/> (born February 12, 1965) is an Indian-Canadian [[epidemiologist]] and [[health economist]] working in the field of global health and founding director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Canada[UofT]. His research focuses primarily on premature mortality resulting from HIV/AIDS, tobacco, alcohol, malaria, maternal and child health, infectious and non-communicable diseases.<ref name=r3/>

==Early life==
Jha was born in [[Ranchi]], India the state of [[Jharkhand]]. When he was six years old, his family moved to [[Winnipeg]] Canada where his father, [[Bidhu Jha]], worked as a civil engineer and went on to become an [[New Democratic Party of Manitoba|NDP]] member of [[Manitoba]]’s legislative assembly.<ref name=r7/> Together with his older brother and younger sister, he was raised by his mother.

==Education and work==
Jha studied medicine at the [[University of Manitoba]].<ref name=r1/> After earning his MD he attended the [[University of Oxford]] in England as a [[Rhodes Scholar]]<ref name=r1/> where he was mentored by statistician and epidemiologist [[Sir Richard Peto]].<ref name=r4/> He successfully defended his PhD in [[epidemiology]] and [[public health]] in 1992.<ref name=r1/>

After graduation Jha worked as a team leader at the [[World Bank]], contributing to the development of the Second National HIV/AIDS Control Program in India.<ref name=r5/> He later worked as a senior scientist in health and poverty for the [[World Health Organization]]’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.

In 2002 he founded the Centre for Global Health Research at [[St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto)|St. Michael's Hospital]] in Toronto, where he has directed a variety of large scale public health studies, most notably the Indian [[Million Death Study]] on premature mortality.<ref name=r6/> Jha’s research focuses on the causes of premature death in developing countries worldwide, and he has been recognized internationally for his work on smoking and tobacco related mortality.<ref name=r3/> He is also a member of the [[Disease Control Priorities Project]].

Jha has been a Senior Fellow of [[Massey College]] at the [[University of Toronto]], [[Canada]] since 2006 and in 2007 he became a professor of epidemiology at the [[Dalla Lana School of Public Health]], [[University of Toronto]].<ref name=r1/> In 2010 Jha was appointed the inaugural Endowed Chair in Disease Control at the Dalla Lana School.<ref name=r1/>

Jha has served as a health advisor to several governments including the [[Government of Canada]] on the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Tobacco Control, the [[Government of South Africa]] on its National Health Insurance Expert Committee, and the [[Government of India]] on the Advisory Committee for the National AIDS Control Organization.<ref name=r1/>

He is a senior editor of the scientific journal [[eLife]]<ref name=r5/> and an International Advisory Board Member for [[The Lancet]] Global Health journal.<ref name=r1/>

Jha is the lead research behind the Action to Beat Coronavirus (Ab-C) study, where [[Unity Health Toronto|Unity Health]], the [[University of Toronto]] and the [[Angus Reid Group|Angus Reid Forum]] have teamed up to look at the prevalence of [[COVID-19]] antibodies among 10,000 Canadians.<ref>{{Cite web|title=U of T epidemiologist leads study tracking COVID-19 immunity of 10,000 Canadians|url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-epidemiologist-leads-study-tracking-covid-19-immunity-10000-canadians|access-date=2020-07-01|website=University of Toronto News|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-01|title=10,000 Canadians to be tested for COVID-19 antibodies in hopes of understanding immunity|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/10-000-canadians-to-be-tested-for-covid-19-antibodies-in-hopes-of-understanding-immunity-1.4961439|access-date=2020-07-01|website=Coronavirus|language=en}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
* [[Rhodes Scholar]], University of Oxford, Oxford, England (1989–92)<ref name=r1/>
* Top 40 Canadians under Age 40 Award (2003)<ref name=r1/>
* The Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award (2004)<ref name=r1/>
* The [[Luther Terry Award]] for Research on Tobacco Control (2012) “for Ground breaking Research on Tobacco Control”<ref name=r1/>
* Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] (2012) “For his contributions to epidemiology and the economics of global health, which have influenced the development of global health policy”<ref name=r1/>
* Alumni Achievement Award, [[Youth Parliament of Manitoba]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-06-06|title=Alumni Achievement Award|url=https://www.ypmanitoba.ca/alumni/aaa/|access-date=2020-07-01|website=Youth Parliament of Manitoba|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
* {{cite book|author=Prabhat Jha|title=Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control|url=https://archive.org/details/CurbingTheEpidemic1999_201801|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=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}}
* {{cite book|author1=Harish Kumar Dhingra|author2=Prabhat Nath Jha|author3=Pratima Bajpai|title=Current Topics in Biotechnology and Microbiology: Recent Trends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSQlKQEACAAJ|year=2011|publisher=Lambert Academic Publishing|isbn=978-3-8443-2975-9}}
* {{Cite journal
| doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)12323-7
| title = 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
| journal = Lancet
| volume = 355
| issue = 9200
| pages = 253–259
| year = 2000
| pmid = 10675071
}} 1600+ citations in [[Web of Science]] as of 2013
* {{Cite journal | last1 = Black | first1 = R. E. | last2 = Cousens | first2 = S. | last3 = Johnson | first3 = H. L. | last4 = Lawn | first4 = J. E. | last5 = Rudan | first5 = I. | last6 = Bassani | first6 = D. G. | last7 = Jha | first7 = P. | last8 = Campbell | first8 = H. | last9 = Walker | first9 = C. F. | last10 = Cibulskis | first10 = R. | last11 = Eisele | first11 = T. | last12 = Liu | first12 = L. | last13 = Mathers | first13 = C. | title = Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: A systematic analysis | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60549-1 | journal = The Lancet | volume = 375 | issue = 9730 | pages = 1969–87 | year = 2010 | pmid = 20466419}} 600+ citations in [[Web of Science]] as of 2013
* Prabhat Jha, Sir Richard Peto (2014) ''Global Effects of Smoking, of Quitting, and of Taxing Tobacco'', NEJM 2014, 370:60-8 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1308383

==References==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=r1>[http://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/prabhat-jha Dr. Jha Profile Page], University of Toronto</ref>
<ref name=r2>[http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=14606&lan=eng 2012 Appointments to the Order of Canada]. www.gg.ca</ref>
<ref name=r3>[http://www.stmichaelshospital.com/research/profile.php?id=jha& Dr. Jha Profile Page]. St. Michael's Hospital</ref>
<ref name=r4>Marcia Kaye (2011) [http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/feature/prabhat-jha-million-death-study-public-health-india/ Saving Lives, One Death at a Time]. U of T Magazine</ref>
<ref name=r5>[http://www.elifesciences.org/about/elife-community/editorial-leadership/prabhat-jha-senior-editor/ Prabhat Jha, Senior editor – Epidemiology]. elifesciences.org</ref>
<ref name=r6>[http://www.cghr.org/index.php/projects/million-death-study-project/ CGHR Million Death Study]. cghr.org</ref>
<ref name=r7>[https://www.gov.mb.ca/hansard/members/info/jha.html Bidhu Jha]. Manitoba MP Profile</ref>}}

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