Jason Ashwin Sreedhar DO MS, MPH

Summary

• Jason Sreedhar (he/him) is an Emergency Medicine resident physician and former International Aid worker. Jason is a passionate health professional focused on innovation and patient-centered approaches to improving quality of healthcare services, particularly for systematically marginalized and excluded populations. Jason currently works as an Resident Physician in multiple Emergency Departments/Intensive Care Units across the Greater New Orleans Area. Additionally, he teaches students/trainees in both clinical and simulation settings, leads disaster drills and preparedness operations for local hospitals, and engages in health maintenance/disease prevention programs at the local level. Throughout his career, Jason has built capacity and developed technical materials for US-based NGOs including Refugee Health Alliance, Luke's House, Coalition for Research and Education Against Trafficking and Exploitation (CREATE), the Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF), and the NSU chapter of the American Academy of Disaster Medicine. Prior to clinical medicine, Jason worked in health systems strengthening for HIV care in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, collaborating with donors/partners including USAID, NIH, CDC, WHO, the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, Partners in Health, the Kenyan Ministry of Health, and others. Jason has served in many roles across the program lifecycle, including leading program development initiatives valued at $300 million, serving as Acting Country Director for the EQUIP-Lesotho Project (budget $9.5 million), leading national-level technical working groups, and serving as a member of the Non-Communicable Disease Secretariat under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Jason received a Doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine from Nova Southeastern University, a BS in Microbial Biology from UC Berkeley, as well as a MS/MPH in Global Health from Boston University.