University Of Memphis: Dr. Ashish Joshi Named Dean Of The School Of Public Health At The UofM

Press release from the University of Memphis:

March 2, 2022

Joshi is currently senior associate dean of Academic and Student Affairs and professor
of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and
Health Policy-New York. He joined CUNY in 2014 as a founding assistant dean of student
affairs. In 2016, he was promoted to associate dean of Student and Alumni Affairs.
He was appointed to his current position in 2018.

Joshi continues to pursue his passion for research, scholarly work and innovative
and entrepreneurial initiatives as he is the principal investigator and co-investigator
on several research projects funded by the city, state, National Institute of Health
and other international foundations and scientific agencies.

He has participated in global health projects in India, Haiti, Nigeria, Bangladesh,
Brazil and Egypt. Joshi has successfully implemented nearly two dozen health technological
interventions in areas of population surveillance, m-health interventions, consumer
health informatics and population health dashboards globally.

Joshi conceptualized the SMAART (Sustainable, Multisector, Accessible, Affordable,
Reimbursable and Tailored) model using combined principles of the human-centered approach
humanistic, behavioral, learning and information processing theory to advance the
achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. He has presented his work at the World
Health Organization, United Nations and several other government agencies worldwide.

He was recently funded through the Open Society Foundation to establish the first-of-its-kind
Population Health Informatics Regional Hub at the James P. Grant School of Public
Health, BRAC University Bangladesh. The hub’s goal is to train students with population
health informatics skills so that data and research capacity can be enhanced among
the various public health practitioners in Bangladesh and other countries in the region. 

Born in India, the 46-year-old is an educator, researcher, practitioner, mentor, innovator
and entrepreneur. Before joining CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health
Policy, Joshi was an associate professor at the Department of Health Services Research
and Administration at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Public
Health.

He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in the area of population health
informatics and designs, develops and implements technological innovations and interventions
at the intersection of clinical care and population health to enhance good health
and well-being of individuals, their family members and the communities they live
in.

Joshi is the primary author of the first book globally on “Population Health Informatics:
Driving Evidence-Based Solutions into Practice.” He is chair of the Global Health
Informatics Working Group at the American Medical Informatics Association and has
been elected to be a member of the DEI committee of the American Medical Informatics
Association.

Joshi has been actively engaged in the response to COVID-19 in New York City as well
as in other parts of the world. He led CUNY SPH collaboration with the Housing Recovery
Office of the Mayor of New York City to secure a nearly $10 million grant to contribute
towards the implementation of the City’s innovative Resource Navigator Test and Trace
Program. Leading the CUNY SPH efforts to respond to this initiative required urgent
build-up of the program to support the needs of the individuals and the communities
impacted by COVID-19 in New York City. Apart from assisting the communities, it also
required collaboration and coordination with city agencies and city-wide community-based
organizations to ensure that individuals are connected to the community resources
that they need.

Joshi received a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery from Punjabi University
in India. He also received a Master of Public Health from Boston University and a
PhD in health informatics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

This press release was produced by the University of Memphis. The views expressed here are the author’s own.