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Dr. Singh is a health care economist and Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at Brown University School of Public Health. Her areas of interest and expertise include consolidation, vertical integration, and private equity in health care markets. Her current research examines how acquisitions of physician practices by private equity funds change physician practice patterns and the downstream effects on health care spending, access, and quality. She is particularly interested in research questions that will inform evidence-based policy during a time of rapid transformation in the organization and ownership of health care delivery systems in the United States.  

Dr. Singh's research has been published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals including Health Affairs and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network, featured in major media outlets such as Vox, Politico, Bloomberg Business and is frequently cited in policy discourse. She was awarded an international research award from the International Health Economics Association in 2023, the Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award from Brown University in 2024, and the Outstanding Dissertation Award from AcademyHealth in 2024.

Dr. Singh holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University, a graduate degree in international finance from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from Bryn Mawr College. In addition to her academic career, she has extensive private sector experience working in the Antitrust and Competition practice of National Economic Research Associates (NERA) Economic Consulting.

How does your research, teaching, or other work relate to data or computational science?

I am trained as an applied economist and use large datasets, applied econometrics, and causal inference techniques in my research. I am starting a new project that uses natural language processing to analyze public sentiments about emerging trends in health care consolidation by private equity investors.