Joel Singer


School of Population and Public Health (SPP)

In 1990 Dr. Singer was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) to head the Data and Methodology Program at the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN). He continues as head of the program and is now a Professor at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health.

He has played an important role as the lead methodologist on numerous HIV clinical trials which have resulted in major publications in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and JAMA. At the same time, he has collaborated with researchers in a number of clinical disciplines, including rheumatology, neonatology, nephrology, intensive care, and emergency medicine to secure grants from major national and international agencies and to produce numerous publications in highly prominent journals. He has served on a number of national committees, including the Clinical Trials Review Panel at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the acting chair of the Safety and Efficacy Review Committee of the CTN, and a member of the Data Safety Monitoring Board at the National Cancer Institute of Canada.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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