Ashish Jha appointed US COVID-19 response chief

Ashish Jha has been appointed the new White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator. Dr Jha who replaces Jeff Zeints is a physician of Indian origin who lives in the US.  

He is an infectious disease expert and the Dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. He has worked on the ebola virus and served as co-chair of a panel to combat the disease’s breakout in West Africa in 2014. Born in Bihar in 1970, he migrated to Canada in 1979, and then to the US in 1983.