Jennifer Singh

Courses Taught

Sociology of Medicine and Health
Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018
HTS 3086
This course will introduce the sociology of medicine and health (also known as medical sociology or sociology of health and illness), which is a broad field examining the social production of health, wellness, illness and mortality.
Race, Medicine, and Science
Fall 2019
HTS 3088

The primary objective of this course is to study the interrelationship of race, medicine, and science drawing on various literatures such as history, sociology, and anthropology.

Health Inequalities
Fall 2016
HTS 3823

This course is designed to investigate social conditions such as poverty, social isolation, and segregation, as well as ascribed characteristics of gender and race that are predictive of a battery of contemporary chronic diseases and causes of premature death.

Reflections authored

Linking Biomedical Engineering and Sociology

Big Ideas

Social and Environmental Determinants of Health- The Social Lens