Tushara Surapaneni, MD

Tushara Surapaneni, MD, is a clinical instructor and Global Health and International Emergency Medicine fellow at Yale University. 

She earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California. Dr. Surapaneni’s current responsibilities span clinical care, teaching, research, and international collaboration. 

Dr. Surapaneni's scholarly work applies spatial epidemiology methods to analyze access to care and climate-related health risk, and her broader research focus include health systems access and accessibility modeling, violence against health care in conflict-affected settings, and predictive outbreak modeling. 

Her honors include the Yale University Public Voices Fellowship with The OpEd Project, the Chadwick Trust Postgraduate Travelling Fellowship, the Jeroen Ensink Fellowship, and a SAEM Global Emergency Medicine Academy scholarship for ARMED.