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2025
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Rajinder Sonia Singh
Assistant Professor
Also affiliated: Portland State University (2014); Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (2025); United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2020–2022); Bowling Green State University (2016–2020); Veterans Health Administration (2022); Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (2011); University of Benghazi (2011); Mental Health Foundation (2011); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2019–2025); Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (2019–2024); Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (2024–2025)
Faculty Researcher
PSY Psychiatry, College of Medicine
17 h-index
48 pubs
972 cited
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OverviewAI-generated summary
Rajinder Sonia Singh's research focuses on health equity and implementation science within the Veterans Health Administration, with a particular emphasis on LGBTQ+ affirming care. Singh has investigated barriers and facilitators to implementing such policies in the southern United States, as indicated by a 2024 publication. Additional work includes adapting interventions for veterans in emergency departments and exploring methods to increase consumer engagement in quality improvement efforts. Singh has also examined conceptual barriers and recommendations for measuring intersectional microaggressions and for justice-based treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder with sexual orientation and gender themes. Their scholarship metrics include an h-index of 17, 48 total publications, and 950 total citations. Singh collaborates with several researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Sara J. Landes and JoAnn E. Kirchner, with whom they share nine publications.
Metrics
- h-index: 17
- Publications: 48
- Citations: 972
Selected Publications
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Evaluating a tailored communication tool to increase advance care planning among Alaska Native and American Indian people in primary care: A type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial protocol (2026)
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Using Self-Identified Gender Identity Data to Advance Health Equity Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration (2025)
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Collaborative Implementation Planning to Jumpstart Advance Care Planning with Alaska Native and American Indian peoples in Primary Care (2025)
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Improving health care through the U.S. Veterans Health Administration’s nationwide LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator Program (2025)
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Recommendations for promoting affirming healthcare for gender and sexual minorities with intersecting marginalized identities (2025)
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Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States (2024)
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Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts (2023)
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Engaging frontline workers in policy development to support the implementation of measurement-based care: Lessons learned from a field-based workgroup (2022)
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Building a multicultural peer-consultation team: Planning, implementing, and early sustainment evaluation (2022)
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Assessing researchers’ capabilities, opportunities, and motivation to conduct equity-oriented dissemination and implementation research, an exploratory cross-sectional study (2022)
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Call to Action: Recommendations for Justice-Based Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder With Sexual Orientation and Gender Themes (2021)
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Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study (2021)
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Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations (2021)
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A more practical guide to incorporating health equity domains in implementation determinant frameworks (2021)
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A pilot study of acceptance and commitment therapy for sexual minorities experiencing work stress (2020)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Sara J. Landes
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
7 shared publications
In database
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Engaging frontline workers in policy development to support the implementation of measurement-based care: Lessons learned from a field-based workgroup
- Improving health care through the U.S. Veterans Health Administration’s nationwide LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator Program
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
JoAnn E. Kirchner
Quality Enhancement Research Initiative
6 shared publications
In database
- A more practical guide to incorporating health equity domains in implementation determinant frameworks
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Engaging frontline workers in policy development to support the implementation of measurement-based care: Lessons learned from a field-based workgroup
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Eva N. Woodward
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
4 shared publications
In database
- A more practical guide to incorporating health equity domains in implementation determinant frameworks
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Assessing researchers’ capabilities, opportunities, and motivation to conduct equity-oriented dissemination and implementation research, an exploratory cross-sectional study
- Building a multicultural peer-consultation team: Planning, implementing, and early sustainment evaluation
Traci H. Abraham
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (US)
3 shared publications
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Engaging frontline workers in policy development to support the implementation of measurement-based care: Lessons learned from a field-based workgroup
Cathleen E. Willging
Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest (US)
3 shared publications
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Recommendations for promoting affirming healthcare for gender and sexual minorities with intersecting marginalized identities
Jillian C. Shipherd
VA Boston Healthcare System (US)
3 shared publications
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Improving health care through the U.S. Veterans Health Administration’s nationwide LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator Program
- Using Self-Identified Gender Identity Data to Advance Health Equity Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration
Michael R. Kauth
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
2 shared publications
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Improving health care through the U.S. Veterans Health Administration’s nationwide LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator Program
Christopher Piromalli
2 shared publications
- Collaborative Implementation Planning to Jumpstart Advance Care Planning with Alaska Native and American Indian peoples in Primary Care
- Evaluating a tailored communication tool to increase advance care planning among Alaska Native and American Indian people in primary care: A type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial protocol
Ryan Mortenson
2 shared publications
- Collaborative Implementation Planning to Jumpstart Advance Care Planning with Alaska Native and American Indian peoples in Primary Care
- Evaluating a tailored communication tool to increase advance care planning among Alaska Native and American Indian people in primary care: A type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial protocol
Jennifer L. Shaw
University of Alaska Fairbanks (US)
2 shared publications
- Collaborative Implementation Planning to Jumpstart Advance Care Planning with Alaska Native and American Indian peoples in Primary Care
- Evaluating a tailored communication tool to increase advance care planning among Alaska Native and American Indian people in primary care: A type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial protocol
Phiwinhlanhla Ndebele‐Ngwenya
Philander Smith College (US)
1 shared publication
- A more practical guide to incorporating health equity domains in implementation determinant frameworks
Andrea Melgar Castillo
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (US)
1 shared publication
- A more practical guide to incorporating health equity domains in implementation determinant frameworks
Kelsey S. Dickson
San Diego State University (US)
1 shared publication
- A more practical guide to incorporating health equity domains in implementation determinant frameworks
Yash Bhambhani
Montefiore Medical Center (US)
1 shared publication
- Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations
Matthew D. Skinta
Roosevelt University (US)
1 shared publication
- Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations
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