Elizabeth Singer
MD, MPH
Mount Sinai Human Rights Program, Icahn School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA

Elizabeth Singer, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the departments of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, an attending clinician at Morningside/ West, and faculty in the EM Global Health Division.

She is also the Executive Director of the Mount Sinai Human Rights Program which serves asylum seekers to the U.S. who have suffered human rights violations and provides forensic medical evaluations, continuity medical care, and social services. Over the past two decades, she has worked with PHR, the ACLU’s National Prison Project, and HealthRight International addressing systemic forces of oppression. She currently serves as a healthcare provider for torture survivors, a trainer of clinicians in trauma-informed care, an educator of students and residents, and a contributor to research/policy agenda. She is dedicated to improving policies and conditions in U.S. immigration detention centers and their impact on the health of asylum seekers.

Globally, she has worked in Cambodia with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and Ministry of Health on reproductive health care, in Peru, India, and Romania improving emergency healthcare access, and in Tanzania as an expert medical advisor for an NGO addressing education and health inequalities in vulnerable children.