Jonathan B. Singer
Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW, is a professor at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Social Work, past president of the American Association of Suicidology, and coauthor of two editions (2015 and 2024) of the best-selling text, Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner’s Guide to Multi-level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention.
Dr. Singer is a two-time winner of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Media Award (2012 and 2016). He was a 2014 visiting scholar at Fordham University, the 2017 Lucille N. Austin Scholar at Columbia University, and the 2018 distinguished lecturer at Weber State University. In 2023, he was named an NASW “Social Work Pioneer” for introducing podcasting to social work.
A well-regarded international speaker, Dr. Singer has given over a thousand continuing education workshops, keynote addresses, and presentations on youth suicide, ethics, technology, adolescent development, and attachment-based family therapy in the U.S., Latin America, Asia, and Europe.
He is an NASW Expert, a Healio Psychiatry Peer Perspective Board member, and has served on several national youth advisory boards including Sandy Hook Promise, JED Foundation, and the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. He is honored to serve on the Suicide Prevention Resource Center Steering Committee.
The author of over 90 publications, Dr. Singer’s research has been featured in national and international media outlets like NPR, BBC, Fox, Time Magazine, and The Guardian. His article, co-authored with Arielle Sheftall and John Ackerman, about the news media’s reporting on the suicide deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain won the prestigious 2019 SDX prize for research on journalism. His research collaborations have been funded through private and public sources, including the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the National Institute of Mental Health.
At the forefront of the integration of technology and social work, Dr. Singer is a founding member of the online suicide prevention social media community #SPSM, past treasurer for the international Human Services Information Technology Association (husITa), co-lead for the Social Work Grand Challenge initiative Harness Technology for Social Good, and a member of the Council on Social Work Education’s Technology Advisory Group.
Dr. Singer is the creator and host of the award-winning Social Work Podcast. Founded in January 2007, the Social Work Podcast is the first podcast by and for social workers, with over 50,000 followers on social media, listeners in 208 countries and territories, and over 8 million downloads. He lives in Evanston, Ill., with his wife and three children and can be found on X/Twitter as @socworkpodcast and Facebook at facebook.com/swpodcast.