Jaya Aysola, MD, DTMH, MPH

Assistant Dean of Inclusion and Diversity, Associate Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Founder and Executive Director, Center for Health Equity Advancement, Office of the CMO, University of Pennsylvania Health System
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Jaya Aysola MD, MPH is Assistant Dean of Inclusion and Diversity and Associate Professor of Medicine and of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Penn Medicine’s Center for Health Equity Advancement (CHEA). She researches strategies for improving uptake and quality of health care and health for marginalized populations and in resource-constrained settings. She has published in New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Network, and Health Affairs. She founded and served as Section Chief of the Division of Community Pediatrics and Global Health at Tulane School of Medicine and as Medical Director of an integrated behavioral health and primary care clinic serving communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina.  In 2008, she received the Tulane Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award from the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Aysola received her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine in 2000 and completed her residency in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at William Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak, MI in 2004. In addition to her master’s degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of public health, she completed a two-year general medicine research fellowship at the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.