Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Faculty Member

Jerome Amir Singh BA, LLB, LLM, MHSc, PhD

Research Interests

• Global health governance
• Global health ethics
• Planetary health governance and ethics
• Climate change ethics and governance
• Environmental law and ethics
• Public health law and ethics
• Research ethics
• Health law
• Health and human rights
• International humanitarian law
• Science and ethics
• Technology and ethics

Jerome Amir Singh (BA, LLB, LLM, MHSc, PhD) is Adjunct Professor of Clinical Public Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada. |

Dr Singh serves as the Principal Investigator of the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE), which operates under the auspices of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). Dr Singh serves as an ad hoc Consultant to several United Nations entities, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNAIDS, and UNICEF. He is currently an appointed Consultant to WHO on Climate Change, Health, Ethics, and Equity, and serves as an Honorary Research Fellow at the Howard College School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He has served as a Consultant to the WHO on a wide range of issues, including XDR-TB, HIV, avian flu, COVID-19, gene drive research, adolescent health research, and Artificial Intelligence. He has also served as an advisor to the WHO on identifying and connecting known, new or emerging issues that could significantly impact global health. In 2017, Dr Singh was appointed by the WHO Director-General (DG) to serve as a member of WHO’s International Health Regulations ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’ Expert Roster. In 2020, he was appointed by the WHO DG to serve as a member of the WHO’s Ad Hoc Research Ethics Review Committee (ERC) for COVID-19, which also serves as an emergency review committee for research on other diseases of international health concern, such as Ebola and Monkeypox. He currently serves on the WHO COVID-19 Ethics & Governance Working Group, the WHO’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Emergency Use Listing of COVID-19 vaccines, and the WHO Working Group for Ethics and Monkeypox. He currently serves on several advisory and oversight bodies related to humanitarian and emergency issues, including the International Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Dr Singh co-chairs the US NIH-funded Ethics Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trial Network (HPTN), serves as a member of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) Legal and Human Rights Technical Task Team, and the Bioethics Advisory Panel of the South African Medical Research Council (SA MRC). He has previously co-directed the Ethical, Social, and Cultural Issues Advisory Services of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative.

Primary Teaching Responsibilities

• Global Health Governance (core module of the graduate certificate in Global Health for medical residents and fellows): Global Health Education Initiative, Postgraduate Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• Planetary and Global Health Ethics (graduate course): Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada;
• Bioethics and the Law (graduate course): Howard College School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.