Burton H Singer,

Burton Singer is Adjunct Professor in the Emerging Pathogens Institute and Department of Mathematics at University of Florida. From 1993 – July, 2009, he was Charles & Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs at, Princeton University. He was formerly chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and professor of economics and statistics at Yale University (1984 – 1993), and Professor of Statistics at Columbia University (1967 – 1984). He has served as chair of the National Research Council Committee on National Statistics and as chair of the Steering Committee for Social and Economic Research in the World Health Organization Tropical Disease Research (TDR) program. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1994), the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine) (2005) and was a Guggenheim fellow in 1981-1982. Dr. Singer received the BS in Engineering Science (1959) and MS in Mechanical Engineering (1961 from Case Institute of Technology and a Ph.D in.Statistics from Stanford University (1967).

From 2010 – 2020, Dr. Singer was a member of the Research Board of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, focused on both short- and long-term consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. His current research is centered in three principal ar- eas: (i) identification of social, biological, and environmental risks associated with infectious diseases, notably SARS-COV-2, malaria, and polio; (ii) integration of biol- ogy and biography of individual patients with multiple chronic conditions to improve the evidential basis for patient management; and (iii) epidemiology and biology of Huanglongbing (citrus greening) to facilitate introduction of new and improved con- trol strategies. Research in area (i) has been conducted as a collaborative activity with Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Yale University. The clinical medicine fo- cus of (ii) is part of a collaborative network directed by Ralph Horwitz of Temple University. Work in area (iii) has involved collaborations with Department of Math- ematics at UF, the Florida Department of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry, and the Emerging Pathogens Institute at UF.

Contributed to multiple studies of epistemology of clinical medicine.

My current research is centered in three principal areas: (i) identification of social, biological, and environmental risks associated with infectious diseases, notably SARS-COV-2, malaria, and polio; (ii) integration of biology and biography of individual patients with multiple chronic conditions to improve the evidential basis for patient management; and (iii) epidemiology and biology of Huanglongbing (citrus greening) to facilitate introduction of new and improved control strategies. Research in area (i) has been conducted as a collaborative activity with Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Yale University. The clinical medicine focus of (ii) is part of a collaborative network directed by Ralph Horwitz of Temple University. Work in area (iii) has involved collaborations with Department of Mathematics at UF, the Florida Department of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry, and the Emerging Pathogens Institute at UF.