Arvind Singhal, Ph. D.

The First Entertainment-Education and Positive Deviance Trans-Media Storytelling Initiative Launched In India- Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hun- I, A Woman, Can Achieve Anything.

• Honorary Professor Conferred on Singhal by Amity University (2020).  

• Singhal gives distinguished public lecture at Campbell University, North Carolina (February, 2019).  

• Singhal on Campbell Now TV, Campbell University, North Carolina (February, 2019).  

• Singhal in conversation with Gary Gunderson on Stakeholder Health Podcast on Positive Deviance (2019).  

• Singhal delivers the Andrew M Mellon Lecture at Hendrix University (2018).  

• Singhal honored with co-author Wang with the Best Paper (Editor’s Choice) in the American Journal of Public Health.  

• Singhal delivers the 2017 Anna Endowment Distinguished Lecture, Anna University, Chennai, India.  

• Singhal’s co-authored piece on East Los High honored with the American Journal of Public Health, Editor’s Choice 2017 Award for Best Publication.   

• Singhal interviewed on Connect (August, 2017), a publication of the Sehgal Foundation.

• Singhal’s 2015 TEDx presentation on The Positive Deviance Approach to Solving Complex Problems

• Singhal delivers the 2015 Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture on the Positive Deviance Approach at the 2015 National Communication Association. A printed version of the lecture is available here.

• Singhal gives lecture in Victoria, Canada, connecting the dots in hindsight on his scholarship of positive deviance

• Singhal invited to UK Houses of Parliament for global health policy deliberations

• Singhal transforms learning experiences by using Liberating Structures in his classrooms. A video by Center for Teaching and Learning, UTEP.

• Singhal Awarded Prestigious Elizabeth G. Andersch 2014 Award for Outstanding Teaching, Scholarship, & Mentorship in the Communication Discipline

• Singhal Chases End of the Scourge of Polio – UTEP News Story

• Singhal Documents India’s Epic Triumph Over Polio through Unprecedented Macro and Micro Communication Planning at Scale

• Singhal Launches Just Legends Film Series in 2013 Featuring Albert Bandura, Jerry Sternin, and Linda Rusch

• Singhal and UTEP colleagues launch the FIRST DRUM ROLL Documenting the History and Actions of Social Justice Initiative, Department of Communication

• Singhal Takes Liberating Structures Global, UTEP News March 2013

• Seventeen Media Changemakers’ Videos Produced by Singhal on Positive Deviance, Liberating   Structures, and Just Legends.

• Singhal's work with Alejandra Diaz on Positive Deviance and Teenage Pregnancy Featured in Psychology Today (2012)

• Singhal's work on Global Polio Eradication Board featured in the Standford Social Innovation Review (2012)

• Singhal's work on Entertainment-Education featured in the New York Times, 2012

• Singhal to give keynote at the 2011 Global Conference on Entertainment-Education and Social Change

• Singhal to lecture and serve as Schomburg Distinguished Fellow at Ramapo College

• Singhal brings innovative approach to Clinton School of Public Service

• Arvind Singhal's work with global polio eradication effort and local implications for his UTEP classes

• Singhal to serve on Global Polio Eradication Board.

• Singhal appointed to the Corporate Advisory Board of Cause Entertainment.

• Singhal leads Social Justice Initiative in becoming a founding member of a Global Consortium on Entertainment-Education.

• Peter Block's Foreword on Arvind Singhal's new book, Inviting Everyone: Healing Healthcare through Positive     Deviance.

• Singhal launches Entertainment-Education and Social Change Wisdom Series for the Oxfam-Novib led global E-E consortium.

• Singhal and Lucia Dura author a book on Positive Deviance and Child Protection.

• Singhal appointed William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellow at the Clinton School of Public Service.

• Singhal delivers 2009 Berkitt Williams Distinguished Lecture at Ouachita Baptist University.

• Singhal serves as CommerzBank Professor at University Technology of Chemnitz in Summer, 2009.

• Singhal Awarded first Everett M. Rogers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment-Education.

• Singhal Wins Prestigious SSRC-ICA 2009 Award, Making it Two in a Row.

• Singhal co-authors a monograph Pop culture with a Purpose: Using Edutainment Media for Social Change.

• Singhal cited in The New Yorker (June 5, 2006).

• Singhal cited in Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter, 2008).