Anita Palepu (Health and Underhousing)

Anita Palepu

Current Roles:
Internal Medicine specialist, St. Paul’s Hospital

Program Director for the General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program, University of British Columbia

Researcher – Dr. Palepu is a researcher at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences at St. Paul’s Hospital. Her research interests include: urban health, substance use, harm reduction, addiction treatment, social determinants of health such as housing and homelessness, and quality of life

Description:

Dr. Palepu is the Vancouver site’s Principal Investigator for the CIHR-funded Health and Housing in Transition Study, which is a longitudinal study of homeless and vulnerably housed persons in Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto. Her research longitudinally follows 200 homeless and 200 vulnerably housed persons to assess housing transitions and its impact on physical and mental health, substance use, and quality of life.

Dr. Palepu’s other areas of interest are: Addictions Health, Access and Resources to Health care, and Health Education and Advocacy.

Get involved – Dr. Palepu is interested in connecting with students, practitioners, and members of the community to provide mentorship, opportunities in advocacy work, research, academic conversations, idea generation, and knowledge translation. She invites all the relationships that may come from the Social Medicine Network and is excited to see what develops.

Contact:
apalepu@hivnet.ubc.ca
Telephone: 604-682-2344 ext 63194

One response to “Anita Palepu (Health and Underhousing)”

  1. Dear Anita

    I am a Phd student in health science from Morocco and i would like to use the DUQOL Scale for my study. In this perspective I would like to have your authorization to use this scale to test it with drug users hospitalized in addiction center in Morocco.

    Best regards

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