Dr. Renu Singh

Renu Singh, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor within the Division of Public Policy and a Junior Fellow at the Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Singh is also a Scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and a DAAD Research Ambassador for the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service. As a political scientist and microbiologist by training, she aims to bridge the worlds of science and policy through her research on comparative social policy, global health security, and the political economy of health. Dr. Singh’s interests are inspired by her time working as a Fulbright Fellow in Berlin, as a DAAD Scholar for the Helmholtz Zentrum and the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich, for the Environmental Investment Organization and LSE Enterprise in London, and for Senator Edward M. Kennedy in DC. Her research has been published by the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, BMJ Global Health, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Foreign Policy Magazine, among others. Dr. Singh received her PhD and MA in Political Science from the Department of Government at Georgetown. She also has an MS in Public Policy and Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BS in Microbiology and BA in Political Science (summa cum laude) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Sub-specialities:
Obesity, nutrition, HIV policy, pandemics, COVID-19, EU politics and harmonization, German politics, science expertise, WHO, global health security, global health governance