Ameeta Singh, BMBS(UK), MSc, FRCPC, FIDSA

About

Dr. Ameeta Singh is a Clinical Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alberta (Edmonton). She has worked as an adult infectious diseases physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) since 1998 but recently closed her general infectious disease practice. She also closed her HIV/STI practice at the Edmonton STI Clinic in June 2025 but continues to see persons living with HIV at the RAH Northern Alberta Program site . She has served as the Territorial Consultant for STBBI in Nunavut since July 2017. She was the Alberta provincial consultant for STBBI from 1998 to 2008, and the Medical Director of the Edmonton STI Clinic from 1998 to 2014. Dr. Singh’s research areas of interest are bacterial STIs, rapid tests for syphilis and HIV and HIV Biomedical Prevention. She has contributed to the development of a wide range of guidelines, programs, and policies for STBBI and has published extensively in these areas. She was the principal investigator for the PoSH study which led to the recent Health Canada approval of the INSTI Multiplex point of care test for syphilis/HIV.

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Research

Research areas of interest:

Sexually transmitted infections, especially bacterial STIs (syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, Mycoplasma genitalium).

HIV Prevention, including PrEP.

Point-of-care diagnostic tests for syphilis and HIV.

Publications

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Current projects:

CIHR SPOR grant: REACHing Underserved and Undiagnosed Populations Living with Congenital Syphilis and HIV in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba: “Test, treat, and linkage to culturally appropriate care” [Principal Applicant, Alberta region]. 

CIHR Operating Grant: Addressing Infectious and Congenital Syphilis in Canada. Scaling Up Point Of Care Testing And Linkages To Care For Syphilis And HIV In Rural, Remote, And Indigenous Populations In Central Alberta [Nominated Principal Applicant].

Ameeta Eshri Singh, L Alexa Thompson, Jennifer Gratrix, Noel Ives, Kevin Fonseca, Cari Egan, Carla Vetland, Byron M Berenger, Anna Fuezery, A Mark Joffe, Kaitlyn Menard, Laura McDougall, Garret Meyer, Sean B Rourke, Graham Tipples, Stacy Valaire, Allison A Venner, Tom Wong, Hong Yuan Zhou

2025 November; 10.1093/cid/ciaf651

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Norman Barairo, Ameeta E. Singh, Shelley Peterson, Ekua Agyemang, Irene Martin

Microbiology Spectrum. 2025 October; 10.1128/spectrum.01553-25

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Angela Copete, Mariana Herrera, Camilo Suarez-Ariza, Zipporah Gitau, Maria Arango-Uribe, Rotem Keynan, Camila Oda, Ameeta E. Singh, Stuart Skinner, Cara Spence, Will Riaño, Lauren J. MacKenzie, Ken Kasper, Laurie Ireland, Irene Martin, Jared Bullard, Lucelly Lopez, Diana Marin, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Yoav Keynan, Zulma Vanessa Rueda

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 2025 May; 10.3390/tropicalmed10050139

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Jennifer Gratrix, Ameeta E. Singh, Carla Vetland, Noel Ives, Anastasia Eliopoulos, Kevin Fonseca, Byron M. Berenger, Cari Egan, Anna K. Füzéry, A. Mark Joffe, Laura McDougall, Sean B. Rourke, Richelle Schindler, William Stokes, L. Alexa Thompson, Graham Tipples, Stacy Valaire, Allison A. Venner

AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 2025 May; 10.1089/apc.2025.0026

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Jessica Krahn, Jennifer Gratrix, MuhammadNaeem Khan, Garret Meyer, Petra Smyczek, Ameeta E. Singh

Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 2025 January; 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000002068

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Xia Y, Caya C, Morin V, Singh AE, Serhir B, Libman M, Goldfarb D, Wong T, Xiu V, Belanger R, Yansouni C, Maheu-Giroux M

Lancet Reg Health Am. 2024 July; 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100845

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Singh AE, Ives N, Gratrix J, Vetland C, Ferron L, Crawford M, Hale-Balla L, Dong K, Meyer G, Smyczek P, Galli R, Rourke SB, Fonseca K, on behalf of the PoSH Study Team

Clinical Microbiology Infection. 2023 July; 29 (7)

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Singh, Ameeta

Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2019 December; 10.1503/cmaj.191075

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