Dr. Rebecca Singer, DNP, RN, teaches population health at the University of Illinois College of Nursing, drawing on over a decade of experience in global health and community partnerships. She has worked for over 75 months in the field with the humanitarian response organization Doctors Without Borders; most of her work focuses on providing care to survivors of violence, establishing primary health services for displaced persons and refugees, responding to epidemics and establishing emergency preparedness. She works with Grounds for Health establishing community based cervical cancer prevention programming in Latin America and East Africa. Formerly the director of healthcare services at an interdisciplinary center for torture survivors in Denver, Colorado, Dr. Singer provided intensive healthcare case management to asylum seekers and refugees. 

As an outgrowth of her humanitarian work, which brings her into regular contact with human suffering, Dr. Singer is committed to ensuring that healthcare workers engage in self-care that enables them to maintain high levels of compassion satisfaction and avoid compassion fatigue, burnout and long-term impacts of secondary trauma. She believes that continued engagement with the arts and humanities has great potential to help healthcare workers find meaning in their work while enhancing wellness. To that end, Dr. Singer collaborated with Kathryn Kruse, a writer and educator, to develop Tell Well, a creative writing workshop designed to help healthcare workers develop their writing practice.