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Ji E Chang

Ji Chang

Ji E Chang

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Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management

Professional overview

Ji Eun Chang, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Policy and Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health, where she also serves as the public health policy and management concentration director for the Ph.D. program. Professor Chang uses mixed-methods research designs and draws from qualitative, quantitative, and geospatial data to demonstrate disparities and highlight barriers faced by safety net providers and underserved patients in accessing equitable care.

Professor Chang is the principal investigator of the AI4Healthy Cities Initiative in New York City, a multi-city collaboration between the Novartis Foundation, Microsoft AI4Health, and local health officials to reduce cardiovascular health inequities through big data analytics. Dr. Chang is also the co-principal investigator of an NIH NIDA-funded study to support implementing transitional opioid programs in safety net hospitals. Dr. Chang received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. in Public Administration from New York University in 2016.

Education

BA, Economics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
MS, Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
PhD, Public Administration, New York University, New York, NY

Honors and awards

Governor’s Scholar (2007)
Regents and Chancellors’ Scholar (2005)

Areas of research and study

Cardiovascular Disease
Health Disparities
Health Equity
Public Health Management
Public Health Management
Safety Net Providers and Patients
Substance Use Disorders

Publications

Publications

Association of Telehealth Utilization Among Patients with Heart Disease with Fewer Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations during COVID-19 Pandemic

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Barriers and Facilitators to Establishing Partnerships for Substance Use Disorder Care Transitions Between Safety-Net Hospitals and Community-Based Organizations

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Barriers and Facilitators to Establishing Partnerships for Substance Use Disorder Care Transitions Between Safety-Net Hospitals and Community-Based Organizations

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Comparing Rates of Undiagnosed Hypertension and Diabetes in Patients With and Without Substance Use Disorders

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Comparing Rates of Undiagnosed Hypertension and Diabetes in Patients with and without Substance Use Disorders 

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Discrimination in Medical Settings across Populations: Evidence From the All of Us Research Program

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Examining the relationship between social determinants of health, measures of structural racism and county-level overdose deaths from 2017-2020

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Examining the relationship between social determinants of health, measures of structural racism and county-level overdose deaths from 2017–2020

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Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017-2021

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Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017-2021

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Identifying and Characterizing Models of Substance Use Treatment in Outpatient Substance Use Treatment Facilities

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Initiatives to Support the Transition of Patients With Substance Use Disorders From Acute Care to Community-based Services Among a National Sample of Nonprofit Hospitals

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Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City

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Rural-urban disparities in the availability of hospital-based screening, medications for opioid use disorder, and addiction consult services

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Rural-urban disparities in the availability of hospital-based screening, medications for opioid use disorder, and addiction consult services

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Rural-urban disparities in the availability of hospital-based screening, medications for opioid use disorder, and addiction consult services.

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Suicide ideation and behavior disparities among high school students: Examining Asian and multiracial race/ethnicity groups

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Telehealth use during the early COVID-19 public health emergency and subsequent health care costs and utilization

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The Ecology of Economic Distress and Life Expectancy

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The Ecology of Economic Distress and Life Expectancy

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Toward a Consensus on Strategies to Support Opioid Use Disorder Care Transitions Following Hospitalization : A Modified Delphi Process

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Trends in the availability of comprehensive services within outpatient substance use treatment facilities from 2018 to 2022

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Trends in the availability of comprehensive services within outpatient substance use treatment facilities from 2018 to 2022

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Academy Health Annual Research Meeting Health Disparities Special Session Coordinator and Moderator: AI Applications in Health and Public Health: Cross-Sector Strategies to Mitigate Bias

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An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health

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Contact

ji.chang@nyu.edu 708 Broadway New York, NY, 10003