Jerome Singh Academy of Science of South AfricaSouth Africa

Jerome Amir Singh (BA, LLB, LLM, MHSc, PhD) serves as the Principal Investigator of the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE), which operates under the auspices of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He currently serves as a Consultant to the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Climate Change, Health, and Ethics. He is Adjunct Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Howard College School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He serves on several advisory and oversight bodies related to research, policy, humanitarian, and emergency issues, including the International Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), WHO’s Emergencies Ethics Review Committee, and the WHO Technical Advisory Group for Emergency Use Listing. Dr Singh chairs the Ethics Working Group of the US NIH-funded HIV Prevention Trial Network, serves as a member of the South African National AIDS Council Legal and Human Rights Technical Task Team, and the Bioethics Advisory Panel of the South African Medical Research Council. He has previously provided support to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), BMGF partners, and BMGF grantees.