Vishnu Laalitha Surapaneni, MD

Dr.Surapaneni is an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine. She holds a public health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr.Surapaneni’s area of interest is climate change and its impact on human health. At the Academic Health Center, she is the climate champion for the medical school. She works with an interprofessional group of champions to educate students about climate and health. She is the faculty advisor for Health Students for a Healthy Climate.

She was invited to provide expert testimony at the Minnesota State Capitol on the public health impacts of climate change. As a science communicator, she gives regular talks to the general public about how climate impacts health, and was interviewed by MPR and City Pages.

• 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
  

• Climate change and health

• 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