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:
Through her research, Dr. Palepu advocates for populations affected by homelessness/underhousing, poverty and addictions. As Program Director for the General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of British Columbia, she has also worked to create better integration and availability of research and community engagement opportunities within traditional postgraduate training.
Dr. Palepu’s other areas of interest are: Health and Underhousing, Addictions and substance use, and Access and resources to Health care.
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