Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS

LATHA PALANIPPAN, MD, MS, is an internist, and clinical and population researcher. Her research has focused on the study of diverse populations, chronic disease and prevention, and seeks to address the gap in knowledge of health in Asian subgroups and other understudied racial/ethnic minorities. She was awarded a Stanford Impact Labs Leave in Service to pursue chronic disease prevention in India for Social Good. She is the Faculty co-Director of Stanford Biobank, designed to accelerate translatable scientific discoveries and co-founder for the Stanford Center for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Research and Education (CARE). CARE has established health related research collaborations in Asia, including student exchange programs in Hong Kong and Vietnam, and research collaborations in India, Japan, and Singapore. She has recently received a Fulbright Future Scholar Award and worked with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization on implementation of Precision Health in Australia.