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Sara Jean Singer, Ph.D.

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Biography
2003 - 2007
Fellowship
2005 - 2007
Fellowship
2007
Most Outstanding Abstract
2008
Runner-up Best Paper
2009
Best Paper Award
2009
Most Outstanding Abstract
2009
Best Paper Award
2010
Best Paper Award, Theory to Practice Category
2011
Best Paper Award, Theory to Practice Category
2012 - 2013
Junior Faculty Sabbatical

Overview
My research in the field of health care management and policy focuses on how organizational leadership and culture impact efforts to implement health delivery innovations, integrate patient care, and improve performance of health care organizations. A key feature of this research is the development of survey instruments that measure provider and patient perspectives on key interpersonal and organizational factors, enabling benchmarking and comparative effectiveness studies, rapid and reliable feedback about the effectiveness of delivery system innovations, and broader dissemination of more successful interventions. In my work, I use organizational and leadership theory and mixed quantitative and qualitative methods.

I developed and teach a course at the Harvard School of Public Health, entitled Health Care Organizations and Organizational Behavior: Leadership and Management for Learning, Innovation, and Performance Improvement, which is offered twice a year. I also teach in the Harvard PhD in Health Policy core course on the subject of “Patient Safety, Safety Culture and Safety Leadership.” In addition, I serve as advisor or dissertation committee member for Masters and Doctoral students at the School of Public Health and for junior faculty recipients of career development awards.

Previously I co-founded and served as Executive Director for the Center for Health Policy at Stanford, where I was also a Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer (1993-2003). I also served as Staff Director for the California Managed Care Improvement Task Force (1997-98), a Senior Legislative Assistant for Health Policy in the US House of Representative (1994), and Health Policy Analyst at the Office of Management and Budget (1992).

Research
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  1. R01MD017870 (SINGER, SARA JEAN) Jul 21, 2023 - Jan 31, 2028
    NIH
    Implementing Scalable, PAtient-centered Team-based Care for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes and Health Disparities (iPATH)
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. P30HS024453 (SINGER, SARA JEAN) Sep 30, 2015 - Sep 29, 2021
    NIH
    Engineering Highly Reliable Learning Lab
    Role: Principal Investigator
  3. R18HS019631 (SINGER, SARA JEAN) Sep 30, 2010 - Jul 31, 2014
    NIH
    Factors Associated with Effective Implementation of a Surgical Safety Checklist
    Role: Principal Investigator
  4. U18HS011114 (BAKER, LAURENCE C) Sep 30, 2000 - Aug 31, 2004
    NIH
    DEVELOPING BEST PRACTICES FOR PATIENT SAFETY
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator

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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.