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Ashwin Vasan
Ashwin Vasan (born November 15, 1980) is an American physician, epidemiologist, and health official. He served as the 44th commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Vasan is credited with modernizing the agency’s culture and processes as well as strengthening its data systems in preparation for future pandemics or health emergencies.
His research on infectious diseases, mental health, and primary care treatment have been published in numerous medical journals including NEJM, JAMA, and The Lancet.
Vasan was also the president and CEO of Fountain House, a national mental health nonprofit.
Vasan was born and raised in Chicago. His mother was a neonatologist and his father was a chemical engineer. Both of his parents immigrated to the United Stated from Chennai, India in the 1970s.
Vasan earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001 and a Master of Science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. He graduated from University of Michigan Medical School in 2011 and later earned a PhD from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2016. He completed his medical training in internal medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Ashwin Vasan began career in global HIV/AIDS, working with Partners In Health (PIH) in Boston before moving to the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization, under PIH co-founder Jim Yong Kim, on the "3by5" Initiative to increase access to HIV treatment. He spent time in Switzerland, rural Uganda, Lesotho and Rwanda, with PIH once again, for this work. After completing his internal medicine training at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, in 2014 Vasan joined the faculty of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and the Department of Medicine at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, where he works as an assistant professor of clinical population and family health and medicine, and has taught courses in global health, implementation science, and policy. Vasan practices primary care medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. More recently, he has been a global advocate for pandemic preparedness, funding of global HIV/AIDS programs, and the health impacts of climate change.
In 2016, Vasan was appointed by Mary T. Bassett to serve as the founding executive director of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Health Access Equity Unit, a city-wide initiative aimed at improving the health and social welfare of marginalized communities in New York City, with a particular focus on formerly incarcerated people.
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Ashwin Vasan
Ashwin Vasan (born November 15, 1980) is an American physician, epidemiologist, and health official. He served as the 44th commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Vasan is credited with modernizing the agency’s culture and processes as well as strengthening its data systems in preparation for future pandemics or health emergencies.
His research on infectious diseases, mental health, and primary care treatment have been published in numerous medical journals including NEJM, JAMA, and The Lancet.
Vasan was also the president and CEO of Fountain House, a national mental health nonprofit.
Vasan was born and raised in Chicago. His mother was a neonatologist and his father was a chemical engineer. Both of his parents immigrated to the United Stated from Chennai, India in the 1970s.
Vasan earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001 and a Master of Science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. He graduated from University of Michigan Medical School in 2011 and later earned a PhD from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2016. He completed his medical training in internal medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Ashwin Vasan began career in global HIV/AIDS, working with Partners In Health (PIH) in Boston before moving to the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization, under PIH co-founder Jim Yong Kim, on the "3by5" Initiative to increase access to HIV treatment. He spent time in Switzerland, rural Uganda, Lesotho and Rwanda, with PIH once again, for this work. After completing his internal medicine training at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, in 2014 Vasan joined the faculty of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and the Department of Medicine at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, where he works as an assistant professor of clinical population and family health and medicine, and has taught courses in global health, implementation science, and policy. Vasan practices primary care medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. More recently, he has been a global advocate for pandemic preparedness, funding of global HIV/AIDS programs, and the health impacts of climate change.
In 2016, Vasan was appointed by Mary T. Bassett to serve as the founding executive director of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Health Access Equity Unit, a city-wide initiative aimed at improving the health and social welfare of marginalized communities in New York City, with a particular focus on formerly incarcerated people.