Arvind Singhal, Ph.D.: Spreading PD through the World

Professor Arvind Singhal, Professor of Communication and Director of the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP). Singhal teaches and conducts research on the Diffusion or Innovations, the Positive Deviance, organizing for social change, the entertainment education strategy, and liberating structures. Under his leadership UTEP has become the leading global hub on the teaching, research and practice of the Positive Deviance approach. Arvind is an internationally acclaimed passionate advocate and promoter of the use of the PD approach in many fields. He has written extensively on his and others work using the PD approach. His recent work has taken him to Japan, Jamaica, Norway and India among others. Domestically he has been instrumental in the spread of the PD approach in public health, corporate citizenship among others. Singhal has excelled at promoting the use of the PD approach in applied research with students and fellow academics in many universities throughout the world. Learn more about his work here! http://www.utepmagazine.com