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Merrill Singer is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their primary field of study is medicine, with significant contributions across various subfields including organizational behavior and human resource management, health toxicology and mutagenesis, infectious diseases, modeling and simulation, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their research covers multiple main topics including global public health policies and epidemiology, climate change and health impacts, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, zoonotic diseases and public health, health disparities and outcomes, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and HIV/AIDS research and interventions.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Merrill Singer include the following:

  • Whither syndemics?: Trends in syndemics research, a review 2015-2019, 2020, Global Public Health
  • The Syndemics and Structural Violence of the COVID Pandemic: Anthropological Insights on a Crisis, 2020, Open Anthropological Research
  • Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19, 2021, Annual Review of Anthropology

They have frequently collaborated with co-authors such as Nicola Bulled, Hans A. Baer, Bayla Ostrach, Maya Negev, and S. Natour.

Merrill Singer's publications often appear in academic venues including Global Public Health, Medical Anthropology, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Open Anthropological Research, and Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS.

In addition to journal articles, their book publications include titles released by notable publishers such as Springer Texts in Social Sciences and Rowman & Littlefield. These include:

  • The Anthropology of Human and Planetary Health, 2025
  • Introducing Medical Anthropology, 2020

Their work integrates socio-medical perspectives with a focus on syndemics, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to complex epidemic events. The combination of anthropology, public health, and clinical research informs their exploration of structural violence, disease interactions, and health inequities within diverse populations.

Best Publications

  • Syndemics and the biosocial conception of health

    Merrill Singer;Nicola Bulled;Bayla Ostrach;Emily Mendenhall

  • Syndemics and public health: reconceptualizing disease in bio-social context.

    Merrill Singer;Scott Clair

  • The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users.

    Tim Rhodes;Merrill Singer;Philippe Bourgois;Samuel R. Friedman

  • Introduction to Syndemics: A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health

    Merrill Singer

  • A Dose of Drugs, a Touch of Violence, a Case of Aids: Conceptualizing the Sava Syndemic

    Merrill Singer

  • AIDS and the health crisis of the U.S. urban poor: The perspective of critical medical anthropology.

    Merrill Singer

  • Syndemics, sex and the city: understanding sexually transmitted diseases in social and cultural context.

    Merrill C. Singer;Pamela I. Erickson;Louise Badiane;Rosemary Diaz

  • Critical Medical Anthropology

    Merrill Singer;Hans A. Baer

  • Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past, Present, and Future

    Barbara Rylko-Bauer;Merrill Singer;John Van Willigen

  • Toward a critical medical anthropology

    Hans A Baer;Merrill Singer;John H Johnsen

  • African-American Religion in the Twentieth Century: Varieties of Protest and Accommodation

    Hans A. Baer;Merrill Singer

  • Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action

    Merrill Singer;Hans A. Baer

  • "Nobody gives a damn if I live or die": Violence, drugs, and street-level prostitution in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut

    Nancy Romero-Daza;Margaret Weeks;Merrill Singer

  • Beyond the Ivory Tower: critical praxis in medical anthropology.

    Merrill Singer

  • Reinventing medical anthropology: toward a critical realignment.

    Merrill Singer

  • Medical anthropology and the world system

    Hans A. Baer;Merrill Singer;Ida Susser

  • Unhealthy health policy : a critical anthropological examination

    Arachu Castro;Merrill Singer

  • Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health: Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions

    Hans A. Baer;Merrill Singer

  • Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective

    Hans A. Baer;Merrill Singer;Ida Susser

  • A Methodological Model for Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation: The RARE Program in Public Health:

    Robert T. Trotter;Richard H. Needle;Eric Goosby;Christopher Bates

  • The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change

    Emily Mendenhall;Merrill Singer

  • Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

    Janie Simmons;Merrill Singer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean J. Schensul
Jean J. Schensul University of Connecticut
Ricky N. Bluthenthal
Ricky N. Bluthenthal University of Southern California
Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego
Celia B. Fisher
Celia B. Fisher Fordham University
Traci C. Green
Traci C. Green Brown University
Linda B. Cottler
Linda B. Cottler University of Florida
Carl G. Leukefeld
Carl G. Leukefeld University of Kentucky
Sherry Deren
Sherry Deren New York University
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith British Antarctic Survey
Claire E. Sterk
Claire E. Sterk Emory University

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