Ashish Jha on Healthcare Payment Reform, COVID-19 & Health Policy Twitter

<p>When we launched <em>A Health Podyssey </em>in 2020, our goal was to take listeners beyond the research published in <em>Health Affairs</em>.</p><p>For <em>A Health Podyssey</em>'s one-year anniversary, we wanted to take listeners on an <em>Excursion</em> and speak with someone who epitomizes so much of what brings professionals into the fields of health policy and health services.<br><em> </em>  <br>Ashish Jha from the <a href="https://www.brown.edu/academics/public-health/">Brown University School of Public Health</a> is a widely published researcher whose public voice arises from a combination of deep expertise and a unique ability to explain complex concepts in an accessible language. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jha's insights on the virus have helped many navigate thorny, complicated public health issues.</p><p>Jha's most recent publication in <em>Health Affairs</em> was a commentary article where he and coauthors discussed <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01352">adding a climate lens to health policy discussion</a> in the U.S. Before joining Brown University, he was at the <a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/">Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health</a>.<br> <br>Today, Ashish Jha joins <em>Health Affairs</em>' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil to discuss what he's learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, the bright spots he sees for health care payment reform, and how he uses social media.</p><p>This episode is sponsored by the <a href="%20https://improvinghealthcare.mehp.upenn.edu/master-of-health-care-innovation?utm_source=healthaffairs&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=mhci_2022">University of Pennsylvania's Master of Health Care Innovation</a>.</p><p>Subscribe: <a href="https://feeds.transistor.fm/a-health-podyssey">RSS</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-health-podyssey/id1533852530">Apple Podcasts</a> | <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3tAEbXdlzlcgjLTHfJMYqR">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=576615&amp