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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/>
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==Early life==
'''Prabhat Jha''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC}}<ref name=r1/><ref name=r2/> (born February 12, 1965) is an Indian-Canadian [[epidemiologist]] currently working in the field of global health.
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 is the founding director of the Centre for Global Health Research at [[St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto)|St. Michael’s Hospital]] in [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]]. 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/>
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.
== Early life ==
Jha was born in [[Ranchi]], India the state of [[Jharkhand]]. When he was six years old, his family moved to [[Winnipeg|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.


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]].
== Education and career ==
Jha studied medicine at the [[University of Manitoba]].<ref name=r1/> After earning his [[Doctor of Medicine]] degree, 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/>


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/>
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/> In 2019, Jha was appointed University Professor at the University of Toronto, recognizing his outstanding scholarly achievement and contributions to the field of public health.<ref name=r8/> In 2024, Jha was appointed Nuffield Professor of Population Health and Head of Department.<ref>https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-prabhat-jha-appointed-as-nuffield-professor-of-population-health-and-head-of-department</ref>
 
Jha has been an elected foreign member of the [[US National Academy of Medicine]] in the [[National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine]] since 2016.<ref name=r9/> Jha has also been an elected fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]] since 2018.<ref name=r10/>


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/>
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/>
He was a founding senior editor of the scientific journal [[eLife]]<ref name=r5/> from 2011–2018 and is 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>
Jha is the lead researcher 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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601204022/https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/10-000-canadians-to-be-tested-for-covid-19-antibodies-in-hopes-of-understanding-immunity-1.4961439|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 1, 2020|access-date=2020-07-01|website=Coronavirus|language=en}}</ref>


==Awards and honours==
== Awards and honours ==
* [[Rhodes Scholar]], University of Oxford, Oxford, England (1989–92)<ref name=r1/>
* [[Rhodes Scholar]], University of Oxford, Oxford, England (1989–92)<ref name=r1/>
* Top 40 Canadians under Age 40 Award (2003)<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 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/>
* The Luther Terry Award from the [[American Cancer Society]] 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/>
* 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/>
* Elected Fellow, [[Royal Society of Canada]] (2018)<ref name=r10/>
* Elected Foreign Member, [[US National Academy of Medicine]] (2016)<ref name=r9/>
* CIHR Trailblazer Award, Inaugural Award in Population Health Solutions (2016)
* 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>
* 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==
== 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}}
* {{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}}
* Prabhat Jha, Frank Chaloupka (eds) (2000) ''Tobacco Control in Developing Countries'',  Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0192632469}}
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}} 1600+ citations in [[Web of Science]] as of 2013
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* {{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
}} 3000+ citations in [[Web of Science]] as of 2022
* 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
* {{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| s2cid = 27812760 }} 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==
== References ==
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<ref name=r1>[http://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/prabhat-jha Dr. Jha Profile Page], University of Toronto</ref>
<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=r2>[http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=14606&lan=eng 2012 Appointments to the Order of Canada]. www.gg.ca</ref>
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<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=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=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>}}
<ref name=r7>[https://www.gov.mb.ca/hansard/members/info/jha.html Bidhu Jha]. Manitoba MP Profile</ref>
<ref name=r8>[https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-professors/complete-list-university-professors Complete List of University Professors]. www.provost.utoronto.ca</ref>
<ref name=r9>[https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/2016/10/18/prabhat-jha-inducted-into-the-u-s-national-academy-of-medicine Prabhat Jha Inducted Into The US National Academy Of Medicine]. www.dlsph.utoronto.ca</ref>
<ref name=r10>[https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/2018/09/11/three-dlsph-faculty-named-fellows-of-the-royal-society-of-canada Three DLSPH faculty named fellows of the Royal Society of Canada]. www.dlsph.utoronto.ca</ref>}}


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Prabhat Jha

Born (1965-02-12) February 12, 1965 (age 61)
Alma mater
OccupationEpidemiologist
Parent(s)
AwardsFull list

Prabhat Jha OC[1][2] (born February 12, 1965) is an Indian-Canadian epidemiologist currently working in the field of global health.

Jha is the founding director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. His research focuses primarily on premature mortality resulting from HIV/AIDS, tobacco, alcohol, malaria, maternal, and child health, infectious and non-communicable diseases.[3]

Early life[edit | edit source]

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 NDP member of Manitoba’s legislative assembly.[4] Together, with his older brother and younger sister, he was raised by his mother.

Education and career[edit | edit source]

Jha studied medicine at the University of Manitoba.[1] After earning his Doctor of Medicine degree, he attended the University of Oxford in England as a Rhodes Scholar[1] where he was mentored by statistician and epidemiologist Sir Richard Peto.[5] He successfully defended his PhD in epidemiology and public health in 1992.[1]

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.[6] 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 in Toronto, where he has directed a variety of large scale public health studies, most notably the Indian Million Death Study on premature mortality.[7] 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.[3] 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.[1] In 2010, Jha was appointed the inaugural Endowed Chair in Disease Control at the Dalla Lana School.[1] In 2019, Jha was appointed University Professor at the University of Toronto, recognizing his outstanding scholarly achievement and contributions to the field of public health.[8] In 2024, Jha was appointed Nuffield Professor of Population Health and Head of Department.[9]

Jha has been an elected foreign member of the US National Academy of Medicine in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine since 2016.[10] Jha has also been an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2018.[11]

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.[1]

He was a founding senior editor of the scientific journal eLife[6] from 2011–2018 and is an International Advisory Board Member for The Lancet Global Health journal.[1]

Jha is the lead researcher behind the Action to Beat Coronavirus (Ab-C) study, where Unity Health, the University of Toronto and the Angus Reid Forum have teamed up to look at the prevalence of COVID-19 antibodies among 10,000 Canadians.[12][13]

Awards and honours[edit | edit source]

Selected publications[edit | edit source]

  • 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. S2CID 1863533. 3000+ citations in Web of Science as of 2022
  • 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): 1969–87. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60549-1. PMID 20466419. S2CID 27812760. 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[edit | edit source]