JHA, Prabat - Centre for Global Health Research and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Prabhat Jha has led pioneering epidemiological and economic studies which have established tobacco as the most important contributor to premature adult mortality and identified taxation as the most effective means to reduce tobacco consumption (enabling the first global treaty on health). Jha has done outstanding research on the reliable assessment of causes of death including the Million Death Study of a random sample of all deaths in India since 2001.