Vishnu Laalitha Surapaneni, MD, MPH

Dr. Laalitha Surapaneni is an assistant professor of internal medicine with a public health degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a practicing hospitalist at the East Bank campus of M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis.

Dr. Surapaneni’s areas of interest are impacts of climate change on health equity, sustainable healthcare delivery, and the role of physician advocacy in developing science-based policy. At the University, she co-chairs the Climate Health Action Program, a sustainability initiative within the Department of Medicine and is an associate at the Institute on the Environment. She is a member of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change United States Brief workgroup through the University’s Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility. She is the faculty advisor for Health Students for a Healthy Climate, an inter-professional health student group focused on climate action. 

• MPH Field Experience Award, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2009)
• Best Oral Presentation Award, SGIM Mid-Atlantic Region, Regional Meeting (2011)

• American Public Health Association
• American College of Physicians
  

Areas of Interest

• Impacts of climate change on health equity
• Sustainable healthcare delivery
• Physician advocacy in developing science-based policy

• Surapaneni VL, Hochman ME, Hochman SD, Swiger K, Boueiz A, Thomas JR. 50 Studies Every Internist Should Know, edited by Hochman ME, Hochman SD, Swiger K, Thomas JR. 2015, Oxford University Press.
• Book Chapters 12,13,22,43, and 44