Jasvinder Singh, MD, MPH

Birmingham, Alabama

Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Representing: Researchers
Term Ends August 2024

Jasvinder Singh is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and holds the Musculoskeletal Outcomes Research Endowed Professor of Medicine. Singh has served as Director of the Rheumatology Research at the Birmingham VA Medical Center since 2009. Singh has also been the Director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group Satellite Center since 2013; and the Director of the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation gout clinic since 2014.

Singh currently serves on the Food and Drug Administration’s Arthritis Advisory Committee, and on the executive committee of Outcomes Measures in Rheumatology Trials. Singh is the current chair of the Department of Veterans Affairs Rheumatology Field Advisory Committee and the Chair of the Health Services Research Grant Review Committee of the Rheumatology Research Foundation.

Singh’s research has been continuously funded by federal agencies (National Institutes of Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute [PCORI]) and is focused largely on outcomes of arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases. Singh has authored more than 550 manuscripts, 20 book chapters, and 34 editorials.

Singh serves as investigator on multiple research grants focused on patient-reported outcomes, health disparities, and comparative effectiveness research in gout, osteoarthritis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and total joint replacement. Singh has collaborated with colleagues across several disciplines such as orthopedic surgery, rehabilitation, genetics, and oncology.