Tarun Katapally

Biography

Dr. Tarun Katapally is a physician and a population health policy researcher. After obtaining clinical experience in India and the United Kingdom, Dr. Katapally went on to diversify his career towards health administration and population health policy. Apart from his clinical degree, he has a masters in health administration from Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia and a PhD in population health science from the college of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Katapally brings a global perspective to policy research by combining his clinical experience with interdisciplinary epidemiological methods. His research network spans across diverse institutions both within and outside Canada. Currently, he holds an adjunct faculty position in the college of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan and is a research affiliate with the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre and the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture. Internationally, he is the India lead for the generation of the Global Report Card on physical activity of children, a knowledge translation endeavour to inform policy on active living across 40 countries. Dr. Katapally’s expertise is in linking advanced mixed-methods and complex analytical techniques with community-based participatory research to understand the impact of policy and policy-driven contexts and systems on health and wellbeing of populations. Increasingly, his focus is on the usage of digital epidemiological tools in informing active living policy through integrated knowledge translation to promote the health of vulnerable populations such as Indigenous youth.

Research Interest

Population health policy interventions, Active living policy, Indigenous health, Child and youth health, Health policy, Health geography, Digital epidemiology, Computational epidemiology, Mixed-methods, Community-based participatory research,  Integrated knowledge translation