Dr Ashish Jha, 52, was appointed as the White House COVID-19 Coordinator in April 2022 and will return to Brown University, where he had served as the dean of the varsity's school of public health.
Dr. Jha is effective in communicating with the country about how we're going to continue to approach and tackle the pandemic, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.
A native of India who immigrated first to Canada and then to the United States, Jha is a general internist who has practiced in Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island.
Mr. Biden called Mr. Zients “a man of service” and praised his work to “build the infrastructure we needed to deliver vaccines, tests, treatment and masks to hundreds of millions of Americans.”
Born in Pursaulia, Bihar, in 1970, Ashish Jha moved to Canada in 1979 and then to the United States in 1983.