Ilina Singh is a

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of Neuroscience & Society at the

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. She is also a co-director at the

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Centre for Ethics and the Humanities, and a research fellow at the

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(NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre.

Research career

Singh obtained a

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from

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. Before joining at the University of Oxford, she was a Professor of Science, Ethics & Society at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at the

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(KCL), England, UK. Singh was a Reader at the

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before joining KCL. Her current research focuses on the social and ethical side of neuroscience and psychiatry. She is interested in studying translational impacts for children and families, and developing qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection & presentation. According to

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, Singh has published more than 88 research documents with over 2000 citations, and currently has an

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of 23.

International policy-making board member

* Scattergood Foundation Program for Behavioral Health Ethics,

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, USA. * ELSA programme of the

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Consultant to health policy groups

* UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). * National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Hastings Center Working Group on Drugs in Pediatric Psychiatry.

Editorial activities

* Co-Editor:

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(journal). * Editorial Board member: The American Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience (journal)''.''

Awards

2013: Fellow of the Hastings Centre, the oldest bioethics institution in the world.

References

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