Jennifer Singler is a Research Fellow in Pediatric Tuberculosis Epidemiology in the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change. Dr. Singler is also a pediatrician and neonatal hospitalist at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA, which serves mainly poor and immigrant communities. She has a long-standing interest in global health and served in the Peace Corps in Botswana. Before completing the MD at UCSF, she worked with Partners In Health in Boston and Haiti, where she helped build and implement a laboratory to provide diagnostic testing for sexually transmitted infections for women in rural settlements. After completing the MD degree, she continued her work in Haiti with a focus on child malnutrition. Dr. Singler will work with Prof. Mercedes Becerra.
Posters
Singler J, Jacina M, Estimable B. Community-based treatment of childhood malnutrition in Haiti. 9th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference, Seattle, WA, April 27-29, 2012.
Smith-Fawzi MC, Léandre F, Singler JM, et al. Prevalence and risk factors of STDs in rural Haiti: implications for policy and programming in resource-poor settings. 13th International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 9, 2002.
Singler JM, Smith-Fawzi MC, Lambert W, Léandre F, Nevil P, Bertrand D, Claude MS, Bertrand J, Koenig SP, Farmer PE. Prevalence and risk factors of STDs in rural Haiti: implications for policy and programming in resource-poor settings. Poster accepted for presentation at IHMEC Conference, Cuba, March 2002.
Publications
Young S, Leshabari S, Arkfeld C, Singler J, Danzter E, Israel-Ballard K, Mashio C, Maternowska C, Chantry C. Barriers and promoters of home-based pasteurization of breastmilk among HIV-infected mothers in greater Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Breastfeeding Medicine 2013; 8(3):321-6.
Smith Fawzi MC, Lambert W, Boehm F, Finkelstein JL, Singler JM, Leandre F, Nevil P, Bertrand D, Claude MS, Bertrand J, Louissaint M, Jeannis L, Farmer PE, Yang AT, Mukherjee JS. Economic risk factors for HIV infection among women in rural Haiti: implications for HIV prevention policies and programs in resource-poor settings. Journal of Women’s Health 2010; 19(5):885-892.
Trafton JA and Singler JM. Behavioral Interventions to Decrease the Burdens of Low Birthweight, Large for Gestational Age, and Birth Defects. In: Best Practices in the Behavioral Management of Chronic Disease (Volume III). 3rd ed. Trafton JA and Gordon WP, eds. Institute for Brain Potential: Los Altos, CA, 2007.
Smith Fawzi MC, Lambert W, Singler J, Leandre F, Nevil P, Bertrand D, Claude MS, Bertrand J, Louissaint M, Jeannis L, Ferrer JG, Cook EF, Salazar JJ, Farmer P, Mukherjee JS. Identification of chlamydia and gonorrhoea among women in rural Haiti: maximizing access to treatment in a resource poor setting. Sex Transm Infect 2006; 82(2):175-81.
Smith Fawzi MC, Lambert W, Singler JM, Tanagho Y, Leandre F, Nevil P, Bertrand D, Claude MS, Bertrand J, Louissaint M, Jeannis L, Mukherjee JS, Goldie S, Salazar JJ, Farmer PE. Factors associated with forced sex among women accessing health services in rural Haiti: implications for the prevention of HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases. Soc Sci Med 2005; 60(4):679-89.
Shin SS, Furin JJ, and Singler JM. DOT and Beyond: Comprehensive Management of Tuberculosis. In: Best Practices in the Behavioral Management of Chronic Disease (Volume II, Chapter 2). 1st ed. Trafton JA and Gordon WP, eds. Institute for Brain Potential: Los Altos, CA, 2003-2004.
Smith Fawzi MC, Lambert W, Singler JM, Koenig SP, Leandre F, Nevil P, Bertrand D, Claude MS, Bertrand J, Salazar JJ, Louissaint M, Joanis L, Farmer PE. Prevalence and risk factors of STDs in rural Haiti: implications for policy and programming in resource-poor settings. Int J STD AIDS 2003; 14(12):848-53.
Singler J and Farmer P. MSJAMA: Treating HIV in resource-poor settings. JAMA 2002; 288(13):1652-1653.
Furin JJ, Mitnick CD, Shin SS, Bayona J, Becerra MC, Singler JM, Alcantara F, Castaneda C, Sanchez E, Farmer PE, and Kim JY. Occurrence of serious adverse effects in patients receiving community-based therapy for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001;5(7):648-55