Jyotishman Pathak

Jyotishman Pathak, an internationally recognized leader in biomedical informatics and population health sciences, will be the inaugural dean of the new School of Technology for Public Health, effective July 1.

Pathak will help build and launch a first-in-the-nation school shaping an emerging and critically important field that harnesses the power of technology to address pressing public health challenges and opportunities at the local, national and global levels.

An integral part of ASU Health, the School of Technology for Public Health aims to create a new and rapidly evolving space for the integration of digital technology, data-driven decision-making and a significant focus on local impact within public health.

Pathak currently is the Frances & John L. Loeb Professor of Medical Informatics, Professor of Health Care Policy and Research in Psychiatry, chief of the Division of Health Informatics and vice chair for entrepreneurship in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. 

His research focuses on analyzing electronic health records, insurance claims and social determinants of health data to study mental health service utilization and treatment outcomes for depression, substance use and suicide. This work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the National Science Foundation and the American Heart Association, among many other organizations. Pathak also is the co-founder of a mental health startup — Iris OB Health Inc. — that is developing digital health solutions for managing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

Pathak has authored over 275 peer-reviewed publications, multiple book chapters and invited editorials, and he has published a book on genomic and clinical data sharing. In 2023, he was appointed by the U.S. secretary of health and human services to the National Advisory Mental Health Council, where he advises the director of the National Institute of Mental Health. Pathak has received multiple awards from the American Medical Informatics Association, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Heart Association, IBM Research and Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar for research excellence, teaching and mentorship, and he serves as an editor for the American Psychiatric Association's Psychiatric News. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.

Pathak earned a PhD in computer science from Iowa State University in 2007, after which he became a postdoctoral research fellow in the Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Originally from India, he earned a B.Engg in computer science and engineering from the National Institute of Technology in 2002.