Jaya Aysola MD, DTMH, MPH

Biography

Jaya Aysola, MD, DTMH, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and of Pediatrics and the Founding Executive Director of Penn Medicine’s Center for Health Equity Advancement (CHEA) and HEAL (Health Equity Advancement Lab).  Her research, teaching, training, and mentorship centers on how health systems can operationalize equity and inclusion by dismantling structural bias and racism in medicine and evaluating system, provider, and patient level strategies to improve the uptake and quality of health care and health for disinvested populations. This work is informed by Dr. Aysola’s prior clinical, administrative, and policy experiences in resource-constrained settings and has led to over 60 peer review publications in high impact journals such New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Academic Medicine.