Epidemiology professor named Distinguished Early Career Scholar

Parvati Singh receives Provost’s Professorship, joins prominent cohort

Parvati Singh

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Parvati Singh was nominated into the Provost’s Distinguished Early Career Scholar Program, a new initiative out of the Office of Academic Affairs that aims to attract and retain the highest caliber early-career faculty candidates who have demonstrated exceptional promise.

Singh, who joined the College of Public Health in 2021, is an expert in psychiatric epidemiology whose research explores how sudden changes in socioeconomic and health policies affect population-level mental health and health care use, with a focus on vulnerable communities.

Her Provost’s Assistant Professorship will last five years, and she will receive an annual research fund of $50,000 and one year free of teaching duties to pursue innovative research and scholarship.

Recommendations for Provost’s Scholars are confidentially submitted by college deans and reviewed by a campus-wide faculty committee.