Raja Singh

Dr. Raja Singh has been working in the area of Performance based design of buildings. This ranges from work at the master’s degree level on fire performance of naturally ventilated buildings to the extensive work on Infection Control by Dilution Ventilation at the Doctoral Level. He has led classrooms for architects teaching infection control in the everyday built environment at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi as a visiting faculty in the past. He has received a fellowship from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, PA, USA for work related to toxic indoor pollutants and mesothelioma related work in India. He has been the Secretary of the Scientific and Technical Committee STC34 on IEQ Guidelines of ISIAQ, an international body working on Indoor Air Quality. He has published in internationally reputed journals like Environment International, Indoor and Built Environment, Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, Cities & Health, Cureus Journal of Medical Sciences, Public Health Action, the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, the American Journal of Industrial Medicine and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. He also serves as a peer reviewer for Cureus, Cities & Health and Indoor and Built Environment among others. He has addressed national and international gatherings and conferences and works actively in spearheading policy in this area. In the advocacy role, he has been pushing for airborne infection control in the built environment through judicial action in the Delhi High Court. He has also been Built Environment and Public Health Research Fellow at Tathatara Foundation, Bobbili, India and Advisor, ISAC Centre for Built Environment Policy, India. He currently works as a researcher at The Built. He is also under Research Fellowship (Hon.) in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College/Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.