Ajay Singh

I have been a journalist since 1988 on the staff of the Wall Street Journal Asia, the Associated Press and Time Inc. I chronicled India's AIDS crisis and successive cholera epidemics following devastating cyclones in Bangladesh for the AP in the early 1990s. In 1995, I reported on an outbreak of plague in Western India for Der Spiegel magazine and the Times of London. I have reported on the avian flu epidemic in China and written about life-threatening hospital blunders in Hong Kong for Time Magazine. Since relocating to Los Angeles in 2000, I have written about the health benefits of laughter therapy for the Los Angeles Times and about the brilliant research and analysis that L.A. journalist Greg Critser conducted in his definitive book about America's obesity epidemic, "Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World." In 2007, I founded AsiaScoop (www.asiascoop.com), a website about Asian affairs aimed at fostering a dialogue among Asia's diverse communities -- as well as between Asia and the West. I am also a development journalism consultant to the Tiziano Project (www.tizianoproject.com), dedicated to the memory of the famous Italian journalist Tiziano Terzani and devoted to developing top-notch collaborative journalism on a global scale by directly empowering people in developing nations to report and write journalistic stories for international news agencies as well as local publications.