Anita Palepu
MD, MPH, FRCPC, MACP
UBC Division of General Internal Medicine
UBC Rank: Professor
Areas of
Focus
Dr. Palepu is interested in co-creating a strong health data science ecosystem to improve the care we provide.
The social determinants of health, particularly housing has a significant impact on health outcomes and interventions that improve residential stability are of interest as well.
- Data Science and Health
- Urban health research – housing, homelessness, and health
- Medical editing – Associate Editor for Annals of Internal Medicine
Affiliations & Awards
- Head, UBC Department of Medicine and Eric W. Hamber Chair
- Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS)
- Canadian Society of Internal Medicine (CSIM)
- Canadian Medical Association (CMA)
- American College of Physicians (ACP)
- Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2021)
- Providence Health Care Research and Mission Award (2020)
- UBC Department of Medicine Shelley Naiman Award for Outstanding Teaching by Faculty (2019)
- UBC Department of Medicine Inaugural Graydon Meneilly Award for Excellence in Mentoring (2017)
- Master of the American College of Physicians (convocation May 2016)
- UBC Department of Medicine Master Teacher Award (2015)
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