Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, is a practicing physician who has led groundbreaking research on Ebola and COVID-19, publishing more than 200 original research publications. Dr. Jha has also studied how to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care on a national and global scale.

Francesca L. Beaudoin MD, MS, PhD is a board-certified practicing emergency physician and clinical epidemiologist with expertise in opioid use disorders and adverse post-traumatic health outcomes, particularly pain and substance use. Dr. Beaudoin has written and implemented practice management policies for health care systems on pain management and opioid prescribing, and has served as a member of the Food and Drug Administration Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee.  She has partnered with small businesses to innovate new approaches to solving key public health problems and collaborates with state stakeholders such as the Rhode Island Department of Health and the Governor’s Task Force on Opioid Overdoses

Ronald Aubert Ph.D., MSPH is the senior associate dean of education at the Brown University School of Public Health. He is visiting professor of the practice of health services, policy and practice at the School of Public Health, and of race and ethnicity at the Brown University Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.

Dean Aubert, an epidemiologist, is a dedicated teacher and accomplished administrator. With experience working in the academy, government sector, and health care organizations, Dean Aubert has a deep and unique background in public health. Early in his career, Dean Aubert worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, initially as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and later as the Chief of Epidemiology in the Division of Diabetes Translation. While on assignment at the CDC, he was a Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service. He later moved into a series of leadership roles focused on issues related to financing and delivery at health care organizations, including Bayer Healthcare, Medco Health Solutions, Aetna, and Research & Evaluation Analytics.

Nithya Ramesh is a dentist with a decade of experience as a public health educator. She completed her residency in dental public health at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine where she also served as a teaching fellow. Ramesh's research and teaching interests include global oral health policy and epidemiology, social determinants of health, competency-based health education, and the application of mixed-methods research principles.
An alum of Brown's in-person MPH program, Dr. Ramesh provides curricular leadership and operational oversight of academic affairs for the online MPH program.