Prabhjot
Singh in 2013
Born (1982-08-20) August 20, 1982
EducationUniversity of Rochester, Cornell University, Rockefeller University, Columbia University
Notable workDying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America's Healthcare Promise

Prabhjot Singh (born August 20, 1982) is an American scientist, physician and healthcare researcher.

He is Associate Professor in the Departments of Health System Design and Global Health and Medicine at the Mount Sinai Health System and Icahn School of Medicine, as well as Special Advisor for Strategy and Design at the Peterson Center for Healthcare.[1] His work has focused on how advances in community health systems globally can improve health in America.

Singh is the author of more than 25 academic papers on a variety of subjects including healthcare delivery to impoverished communities.[2]

Early life and education

Singh was raised in Kenya and earned a BA and BS in Biology from the University of Rochester, where he graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.[3]

He went on to pursue a combined MD/PhD at Weill Cornell Medical College Rockefeller University, with a Post-Doctoral fellowship in Sustainable Development at Columbia University, supported by a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, NIH Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship. He completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, and the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx. As he was completing his clinical training, he was recognized as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 40th Anniversary Young Leader[4] for his work on adapting global insights into health system design to domestic contexts.[5] He gave a TEDx talk on the topic in 2010,[6] and at Mayo Transform in 2014.[7]

Career

Singh was an assistant professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and Director of Systems Design at The Earth Institute.[8] In 2013, he co-founded the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign[9] with Jeffrey Sachs, which is an initiative of the African Union and UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.[10]

Singh was named as Director of the Arnhold Institute and Chair of the Department of Health System Design & Global Health at Mount Sinai Health Systems in 2016.[11] According to reports, Singh was not the first-choice candidate for the job, but was appointed (in part because of personal connections to the Arnhold family) after the top candidate, a woman, withdrew following an abusive communication from the hospital during the hiring process. Since taking on the new position, Singh has been accused of "demoting and humiliating women on his staff."[12] The Arnhold Institute was supported with a gift of $27.5 million, and in 2016, his Arnhold Institute team, in partnership with the UN Special Envoy for Health In Agenda 2030 and partners, launched Atlas, which leverages satellite technologies to create a new generation of spatial information systems that push intelligence to frontline health care workers in information poor regions. This software has yet to be deployed or used by any frontline health care workers.

Domestically, in his role as Vice Chairman of Medicine for Population Health,[13] Dr. Singh supported the development of a primary care practice transformation team in partnership with health system leaders.

In 2011, Singh and his wife, Manmeet Kaur, founded City Health Works,[14] a program to build a financially sustainable and scalable platform for health coaches to improve the outcomes and decrease the costs of care for high need patients.[15]

Singh has a particular interest in developing the capacity for intermediaries to form bridges between healthcare and social care.[16]

In 2016, the Mount Sinai Health System Dean, CEO and Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Department of Health System Design and Global Health with Singh as chair. He also serves on the National Academy of Medicine’s forum on Aging, Independence and Disability,[17] as well as the National Quality Forum’s taskforce on the impact of housing instability and food insecurity on health.[18] He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2017, he became a Presidential Leadership Scholar[19] and in 2018, he became a Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.[20]

In 2018, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced that he was elected to their board of trustees.[21]

His work has been featured in The Lancet,[22] The New England Journal of Medicine,[23] Brookings Institution Economic Studies,[24] and Health Affairs,[5] as well as by media outlets such as NPR [25] and the New York Times.[26]

Social advocacy

Singh has written about issues related to hate crimes,[27] building more resilient communities,[28][29] and equal opportunity to work.[30] He was attacked in a 2013 hate crime that received extensive local,[31][32] national[33][34][35] and international [36][37] press, both for the attack itself as well as his response.[38] The LA Times,[39] Christian Science Monitor,[40] The Guardian[41] and Al Jazeera[42] have cited him on Sikhs in America. In 2014, Columbia University Magazine wrote a feature story[43] about Prabhjot Singh and Manmeet Kaur's relationship, work in healthcare, and social activism. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Auburn Seminary[44] and Kaur Life.[45]

In 2017, Singh provided testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on the rising incidence of religious hate crimes.[46][47]

Books

  • Panjabi, Raj., Singh, Prabhjot. The Last Mile: How to Get Health Care to the Places That Need It Most. United States: Columbia University Press, 2020.[48]
  • Singh, Prabhjot. Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise. United States: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016[49]

Select Publications

  • 1 million community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015; P Singh, JD Sachs - The Lancet, 2013[50]
  • Deployment of community health workers across rural sub-Saharan Africa: financial considerations and operational assumptions; GC McCord, A Liu, P Singh - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2013[51]
  • Accelerating Adoption And Diffusion Of Innovations In Care Delivery, Health Affairs, May 2017.[52]
  • How to Build Sustainable Community Health Programs in the United States, Health Affairs, 2017[53]
  • Trust between health care and community organizations, SS Stout, LA Simpson, P Singh - JAMA, 2019[54]
  • Community Health Workers in Global Health: Scale and Scalability, A Liu, S Sullivan, M Khan, S Sachs, P Singh - Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine: A Journal of Translational and Personalized Medicine, 2011[55]
  • Health in a Time of Ebola, Project Syndicate, 2014[56]
  • Community Health Workers — A Local Solution to a Global Problem, Prabhjot Singh, Dave A. Chokshi - The New England Journal of Medicine, September 2013[57]

2019 Lawsuit

In April 2019, Mount Sinai Health Systems was sued for gender and age discrimination. Four people at Mount Sinai, including Singh, were named as defendants.[58] As a result of the lawsuit, Singh stepped down from his positions as Chairman of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health and chairman of the department of health system design and global health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he remains on the faculty.[59]

References

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  2. ↑ "Dr. Prabhjot Singh MD, PhD". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  3. ↑ "Prabhjot Singh, M.D., Ph.D." WSJ Health Forum. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  4. ↑ "Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces Young Leader Awards Winners". RWJF. 2012-10-25. Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  5. 1 2 Singh, Prabhjot (2012-11-21). "Bringing The Concepts Of Peer Coaches And Local Health Workers From Africa To Harlem". Health Affairs. 31 (12): 2801–2802. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2012.1109. ISSN 0278-2715. PMID 23174814.
  6. ↑ TEDx Talks (2010-12-28), TEDxBrooklyn - Dr. Prabhjot Singh, retrieved 2016-06-06
  7. ↑ Mayo Clinic (2014-10-03), Mayo Clinic Transform 2014 - Prabhjot Singh, M.D., Ph.D., retrieved 2016-06-06
  8. ↑ Blair, Melissa. "Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces Young Leader Awards Winners". rwjf.org. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "1 Million Health Workers". 1 Million Health Workers. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Prabhjot Singh | Health Affairs Author". www.healthaffairs.org. doi:10.1377/hauthor20160615.880070 (inactive 1 August 2023). Retrieved 2022-05-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2023 (link)
  11. ↑ "Mount Sinai Health System Names New Director of Arnhold Global Health Institute". Mount Sinai (Press release). Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  12. ↑ Miller, Lisa. "One Night at Mount Sinai". The Cut. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  13. ↑ "Mount Sinai Health System Names New Director of Arnhold Global Health Institute - The Mount Sinai Hospital". The Mount Sinai Hospital. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  14. ↑ "City Health Works". City Health Works. Archived from the original on 21 May 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  15. ↑ "Africa Inspires A Health Care Experiment In New York". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  16. ↑ Singh, Stuart M Butler and Prabhjot. "Intermediaries in integrated approaches to health and economic mobility". Brookings. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  17. ↑ "Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence : Health and Medicine Division". nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  18. ↑ "NQF: Social Determinants of Health: Measuring Food Insecurity and Housing Instability". www.qualityforum.org. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  19. ↑ "Scholars - Presidential Leadership Scholars". Presidential Leadership Scholars. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  20. ↑ "Prabhjot Singh - CU Global Thought". cgt.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  21. ↑ "Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Elects Three New Members to Board of Trustees". RWJF. 2018-11-13. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  22. ↑ Singh, Prabhjot; Sachs, Jeffrey D (2013-07-27). "1 million community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015". The Lancet. 382 (9889): 363–365. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.592.1747. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62002-9. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 23541538. S2CID 45113130.
  23. ↑ Singh, Prabhjot; Chokshi, Dave A. (2013-09-05). "Community Health Workers — A Local Solution to a Global Problem". New England Journal of Medicine. 369 (10): 894–896. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1305636. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 24004115.
  24. ↑ "Intermediaries in integrated approaches to health and economic mobility". The Brookings Institution. 2015-11-30. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  25. ↑ "Africa Inspires A Health Care Experiment In New York". NPR.org. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  26. ↑ Rosenberg, Tina (28 August 2014). "What Doctors Can't Do". Opinionator. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  27. ↑ Singh, Simran Jeet; Singh, Prabhjot (2012-08-24). "Hate Crime Reporting Shouldn't Ignore American Sikhs". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  28. ↑ "Charting New Terrain in Social Health" (PDF).
  29. ↑ "Tomorrow's Health Relies on New Relationships (SSIR)". ssir.org. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  30. ↑ Picard, Joe (2013-08-05). "Let Sikhs serve in the U.S. military". TheHill. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  31. ↑ "Mob attacks Sikh, thinks he's a radical Muslim". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  32. ↑ Chung, Jen (2013-09-23). ""Get Osama!" Sikh Columbia Professor Attacked In Harlem". Gothamist. Archived from the original on 2015-04-26. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  33. ↑ "Columbia Professor Attacked In Possible Hate Crime". The Huffington Post. 2013-09-22. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  34. ↑ Goodman, J. David (2013-09-23). "Chronicling Anti-Sikh Violence, and Now a Victim". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  35. ↑ Julie Cannold (23 September 2013). "Sikh professor beaten in possible hate crime in New York - CNN.com". CNN. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  36. ↑ "Would invite my attackers to gurdwara: Sikh professor - Times of India". The Times of India. 24 September 2013. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  37. ↑ "Sikh professor attacked in possible hate crime in US - Times of India". The Times of India. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  38. ↑ "Hate victim Prabhjot Singh: I'm feeling gratitude". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  39. ↑ Times, Los Angeles (29 December 2015). "For Sikhs, often mistaken as Muslims, it's 'a hostile time, a scary time'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  40. ↑ Goodale, Gloria (2015-12-31). "Tired of being targeted, America's Sikhs are standing up for their identity". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  41. ↑ Schuessler, Ryan (2015-12-28). "Years after a white supremacist's mass shooting, Sikhs in US remain on guard". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  42. ↑ "Dr. Prabhjot Singh on Sikh Americans: Every moment you're an ambassador". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  43. ↑ Hond, Paul. "The Wages of Health | Columbia Magazine". magazine.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  44. ↑ "Auburn Board of Directors - Auburn Seminary". Auburn Seminary. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  45. ↑ "About - Kaur Life". kaurlife.org. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  46. ↑ "Dr. Prabhjot Singh". C-SPAN.org. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  47. ↑ "United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary". www.judiciary.senate.gov. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  48. ↑ Panjabi, Raj; Singh, Prabhjot (2020-09-06). The Last Mile: How to Get Health Care to the Places That Need It Most. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-18598-1.
  49. ↑ Singh, Prabhjot (2016-09-15). Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America's Healthcare Promise. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-2045-5.
  50. ↑ Singh, Prabhjot; Sachs, Jeffrey D. (2013-07-27). "1 million community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015". The Lancet. 382 (9889): 363–365. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62002-9. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 23541538. S2CID 45113130.
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  52. ↑ "How to Build Sustainable Community Health Programs in the United States". 2016-12-20. doi:10.1377/forefront.20161220.057871. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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  54. ↑ Stout, Somava Saha; Simpson, Lisa A.; Singh, Prabhjot (2019-07-09). "Trust Between Health Care and Community Organizations". JAMA. 322 (2): 109–110. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.1211. ISSN 1538-3598. PMID 31180461. S2CID 182949313.
  55. ↑ Liu, Anne; Sullivan, Sarah; Khan, Mohammed; Sachs, Sonia; Singh, Prabhjot (May 19, 2011). "Community Health Workers in Global Health: Scale and Scalability". Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine: A Journal of Translational and Personalized Medicine. 78 (3): 419–435. doi:10.1002/msj.20260. PMID 21598268.
  56. ↑ Singh, Prabhjot (2014-08-18). "Health in a Time of Ebola | by Prabhjot Singh". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  57. ↑ Singh, Prabhjot; Chokshi, Dave A. (September 5, 2013). "Community Health Workers — A Local Solution to a Global Problem". New England Journal of Medicine. 369 (10): 894–896. doi:10.1056/nejmp1305636. PMID 24004115.
  58. ↑ "Mount Sinai global health institute accused of gender and age discrimination," Crains's New York Business, 3 May 2019; https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-care/mount-sinai-global-health-institute-accused-gender-and-age-discrimination
  59. ↑ "Mount Sinai academic steps down after discrimination lawsuit," Crain's New York Business, 3 July 2019, https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-care/mount-sinai-academic-steps-down-after-discrimination-lawsuit
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