Dr Harpreet Singh is Scientist-G and Programme Officer at the Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute for Research in Digital Health, New Delhi. A bioinformatician and digital-health scientist with more than 23 years of experience, his work spans artificial intelligence for health, biomedical informatics, health-data governance, and the design of national-scale data systems. He formerly headed ICMR’s Division of Biomedical Informatics and has coordinated multidisciplinary programmes.
Dr Singh led or supported the development of more than 30 national digital-health platforms, including systems for COVID-19 testing, antimicrobial resistance, leprosy, rare diseases, newborn sickle-cell screening, and medical registries. His current research focuses on AI-ready health datasets, MIDAS 2.0, privacy-aware data governance, and validation frameworks for health large language models. He is Professor at the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, adjunct faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and an Associate at Harvard University’s Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute.
He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-index of 35 and over 5,600 citations. His international research experience includes fellowships and appointments at Harvard University, Cornell University, and the University of Oslo. He contributes to major national policy guidelines.
Current Projects:
Nikusth – A digital Platform for National Leprosy Eradication Program
Development of a AI based tool for prediction of PRNT of Dengue viruses from sequence variations
Development of a quantitive framework for Trustworthy AI
Recent Publications:
Sood A, Mishra D, Surya V, Singh H, et al. Challenges and recommendations for enhancing digital data protection in the Indian medical research and healthcare sector. npj Digital Medicine. 2025;8:48.
Maity D, Satish R, Dharmaraju R, et al. MIDAS: a technology-enabled hub-and-spoke system for the collection and dissemination of high-quality medical datasets in India. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2025;25:252.
Gupta A, Singh H, Sancheti R, Jha S, Rangarajan K. Legalities, ethics and frameworks for healthcare AI in India. Academic Radiology. 2025;32–S77.
Maity D, Satish R, Jadeja DA, et al. MIDAS: a new platform for quality-graded health data for AI-enabled healthcare in India. Nature Medicine. 2024;30:2704–2705.
Kaur J, Singh H, Sethi T. Emerging trends in antimicrobial resistance in bloodstream infections: a multicentric longitudinal study in India, 2017–2022. The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia. 2024;26.
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Dr Singh welcomes interdisciplinary collaborations on AI-ready biomedical datasets, validation and governance of health large language models, privacy-preserving health analytics, and equitable digital-health infrastructure for low- and middle-income countries.
