National LGBT Cancer Network: People

Ben Singer

Ben Singer, PhD(c), is a trans-identified community advocate and academic who has worked for over 10 years as a consultant and trainer specializing in reducing health disparities. He has written educational curricula, developed evaluation tools, conducted health and human service training and performed qualitative research.

• Ben is the co-founder of the Trans-health Information Project (TIP), a program of Prevention Point Philadelphia and the Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative, with funding by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He served as the organization's director from 2002-2004.
• Ben provided the opening night plenary keynote for FORGE Forward FTM Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 200 with his presentation entitled "From the Medical Gaze to Sublime Mutations: The Ethics of Re-viewing Nonstandard Body Images." He consults with and regularly presents at community conferences, universities, NGO and governmental organizations.
• Ben has organized multiple LGBT health conferences, written several scholarly articles on public health issues regarding trans-health and taught at Barnard College, University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Rutgers University.
• Ben has provided trainings and group facilitation at:
  • Annual Philadelphia Trans-health Conference (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Philadelphia Department of Public Health, AIDS Activities Coordinating Office (Philadelphia, PA)
  • US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau (Rockville, MD)
  • National Coalition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health (Washington, DC)
  • American Public Health Association's 130th Convention (Philadelphia, PA)
• Ben has been a consultant at:
  • National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, GA)
  • George Washington University (Washington, DC)
  • Long Island Lesbian Cancer Initiative (Long Island, NY)
  • Linda Creed Breast Cancer Program, Rainbow Outreach Project (Philadelphia, PA)
• Ben is currently completing his ethnographic doctoral dissertation "Expert Bodies: Regulating Transsexuality Through Public Health," as a Behavioral Science Training Fellow of the National Development Research Institute in New York City.