Helen Harber Singer

Helen Harber Singer, MPH, earned her graduate degree at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. She spent many years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Division of Violence Prevention (DVP), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Her work focused on the intersection of research and practice and knowledge translation methodologies. Ms. Singer developed translation products across a range of subject matter including suicide prevention, child maltreatment prevention, the relationship between bullying and suicide, and the intersection of social determinants of health and violence prevention. She and her colleagues developed DVP’s guidance on expanding the definition of “evidence-based practice” to include research evidence, contextual evidence and experiential evidence and created an interactive online training tool based on this work, VetoViolence/Understanding Evidence. In 2016, Ms. Singer took a position in the CDC’s Office of the Associate Director for Policy as a Health Scientist/Policy Analyst. Her work remained focused on knowledge translation while her focus shifted to how best available evidence is used to develop and implement policy across the public health landscape. Ms. Singer is pleased to return to Emory and join the ERPC. As a Senior Research Interviewer, she is part of the data collection team on the Smoke-Free Homes and the Healthy Homes/Healthy Families projects.