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Ji Chang
Ji E. Chang, PhD
NYU School of Global Public Health - Assistant Professor, Public Health Policy and Management
Email: ji.chang@nyu.edu
Education
PhD, Public Administration, New York University
MS, Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
BA, Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Research Interests
Care coordination, Integration of services, Patient engagement
BIO
Ji Chang is a management and policy researcher who has experience researching healthcare organizations, healthcare delivery reform, and patient engagement in care. She uses a mix of research methods from quantitative data analysis and statistical modeling to qualitative interviews and geo-spatial mapping.

Dr. Chang’s work has three key lines of inquiry:
  1. To understand how health care provider organizations can best coordinate and integrate care delivery across settings and organizations.
  2. To examine how health care payment and delivery reforms may affect care for disadvantaged populations and the safety net.
  3. To examine factors that influence patient engagement in care.
Projects
Principal Investigator, Developing Implementation Strategies to Improve Access to Transitional Opioid Programs in Safety Net Hospitals. Active
Principal Investigator, Operationalizing Substance Use Harm Reduction Strategies in Medical Settings. Completed
Principal Investigator, Opioid Use Treatment in Primary Care: Examining Organizational Barriers to Medication Assisted Treatment Initiation and Retention in Resource Constrained Settings. Completed
Principal Investigator, Racial Disparities in Access to Hospital-based Opioid Services Before and During COVID-19. Completed
Publications

Recent

Lindenfeld Z, Franz B, Lai AY, Pagan JA, Fenstemaker C, Cronin CE, Chang JE (2024).
Barriers and facilitators to establishing partnerships for substance use disorder care transitions between safety-net hospitals and community-based organizations
Journal of General Internal Medicine. doi: 10.1007/s11606-024-08883-8.

Wang VH, Cuevas AG, Osokpo OH, Chang JE, Zhang D, Hu A, Yun J, Lee A, Du S, Williams DR, Pagan JA (2024).
Discrimination in medical settings across populations: Evidence from the All of Us Research Program
American Journal of Preventive Medicine [Epub 2024 Jun 4]. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2024.05.018.

Lindenfeld Z, Silver D, Pagan JA, Zhang DS, Chang JE (2024).
Examining the relationship between social determinants of health, measures of structural racism and county-level overdose deaths from 2017-2020
PLoS One, 19 (5), e0304256. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304256. PMCID: PMC11115243.

Franz B, Cronin CE, Lindenfeld Z, Pagan JA, Lai AY, Krawczyk N, Rivera BD, Chang JE (2024).
Rural-urban disparities in the availability of hospital-based screening, medications for opioid use disorder, and addiction consult services
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 160, 209280. doi: 10.1016/j.josat.2023.209280. PMCID: PMC11060933.

Krawczyk N, Rivera BD, Chang JE, Lindenfeld Z, Franz B (2024).
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
Journal of Addiction Medicine, 18 (2), 115-121. doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000001250. PMCID: PMC10939963.

Dr. Chang's ResearchGate Profile