Eftitan Akam, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Eftitan (Efi) Akam is an internal medicine and pediatrics hospitalist at Boston Medical Center. Her professional interests are at the intersection of health equity, climate change, and health policy. Dr. Akam focuses on understanding how institutional and governmental policies can lessen the effects of climate change on the health of marginalized communities. Dr. Akam received her BA from Harvard College, her MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and her MPH from Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her Med-Peds residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where she served as Chief Resident. In 2023, Dr. Akam graduated from the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University.

Publications

  • Published 9/12/2025

    Anekwe CV, Cano A, Mulligan J, Ang SB, Johnson CN, Panay N, Schaedel Z, Akam EY, Porterfield F, Wang E, Nappi RE. The role of lifestyle medicine in menopausal health: a review of non-pharmacologic interventions. Climacteric. 2025 Sep 12; 1-19. PMID: 40937901.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 2/17/2022

    Akam EY, Nuako AA, Daniel AK, Stanford FC. Racial Disparities and Cardiometabolic Risk: New Horizons of Intervention and Prevention. Curr Diab Rep. 2022 Mar; 22(3):129-136. PMID: 35175453.

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  • Published 5/24/2021

    Knight MG, Anekwe C, Washington K, Akam EY, Wang E, Stanford FC. Weight regulation in menopause. Menopause. 2021 May 24; 28(8):960-965. PMID: 34033603.

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  • Published 4/21/2021

    Malhotra S, Czepiel KS, Akam EY, Shaw AY, Sivasubramanian R, Seetharaman S, Stanford FC. Bariatric surgery in the treatment of adolescent obesity: current perspectives in the United States. Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2021 May; 16(3):123-134. PMID: 33879013.

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  • Published 8/6/2019

    Barnard ME, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Milne GL, Akam EY, Chan AT, Eliassen AH, Rosner BA, Shu XO, Terry KL, Xiang YB, Zheng W, Tworoger SS. Urinary PGE-M Levels and Risk of Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 11; 28(11):1845-1852. PMID: 31387969.

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Education

  • Vanderbilt University, MD
  • Harvard School of Public Health, MPH
  • Harvard College, BA

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