public health

Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, served as the White House Covid-19 response coordinator from March 2022 to June 2023.

The interview also touched on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the politics of public health.

Undark: What do you think public health researchers and officials did well during the pandemic?

UD: Were any mistakes made in the name of public health, and if so, what can we learn from them?

The blue states ignored that way more than the red states; the blue states ignored it in the name of public health.