Nalini Singh
Nalini Singh
M.D., M.P.H.
Professor Emeritus
School: Milken Institute School of Public Health
Department: Global Health
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Nalini Singh
Nalini Singh, MD, MPH, is in the Division of Infectious Disease at Children's National Health System. Dr. Singh’s research interests include the prevention of healthcare-associated infections, molecular diagnostics related to multi-drug resistant organisms, and global health initiatives related to infection prevention. She is an invited speaker to national and international conferences and is a Fulbright Scholar.
Dr. Singh was appointed to membership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and served on the committee from 2003-2008. On this committee, she helped develop guidelines for the prevention of transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms and in the review of the compendium on the prevention of healthcare-associated infections. She is a preceptor and advisor for candidates in the Masters in Public Health program and mentors medical students, fellows, and junior faculty. She is chair of Children's Infection Control Committee.
- MPH, 1994, George Washington University
- Fellowship Program, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 1982, National Institutes of Health
- Residency Program, Pediatrics, 1979, University of Massachusetts Medical Ctr
- Internship Program, Flexible Internship, 1976, Boston University Hospital
- BS, Pre-Med, 1969, Benares Hindu University
- MBBS, 1969, Benares Hindu University
- Changing Epidemiology of Clostridium DifficileAssociated Disease in Children, (2007) Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology
- Control of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, (2005) Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology
- Epidemiology of Clostridium Difficile in Infants Younger than Two Years of Age, (2008) Society of Healthcare Epidemiology
- Epidemiology of Infection and Colonization with VancomycinResistant Enterococci and Frequency of Cocolonization with MethicillinResistant Staphylococcus Aureus in Children, (2007) Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology
- Epidemiology of Invasive Group A Streptococcus Infections in Children Society of Pediatric Research, (2008) Pediatric Academic Societies
- Molecular and Descriptive Epidemiology of Multidrugresistant Enterobacteriaceae in Hospitalized Infants, (2008) Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology
- Society of Healthcare Epidemiology, (2008) Clinical and economic impact of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on patients in the neonatal intensive care unit
- Society of Pediatric Research, (2008) The Increasing Incidence of Community-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Hospitalized Neonates
- St Judes Pediatric Society Meeting, (2008) The Evolution of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Neonates