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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. Completed
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

Dhanani LY, Brook D, Hall OT, Chang JE, Franz B (2025).
Health care professional willingness to treat opioid use disorder vs type 2 diabetes in primary care
JAMA Network Open, 8 (9), e2534680. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.34680. PMCID: PMC12485638 .

Lindenfeld Z, Franz B, Fenstemaker C, Lai AY, Pagan JA, Cronin CE, Chang JE (2025).
Implementation strategies to enhance safety-net hospitals’ adoption of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment for opioid use disorder
Journal of General Internal Medicine [Epub 2025 Aug 4]. doi: 10.1007/s11606-025-09785-z.

Lindenfeld Z, Cantor JH, Chang JE (2025).
Identifying and characterizing models of substance use treatment in outpatient substance use treatment facilities
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 86 (4), 641-650. doi: 10.15288/jsad.24-00157.

Zein D, Cronin CE, Puro N, Franz B, McNeill E, Chang JE (2025).
Hospital decision-making and adoption of health-related social needs programs in US hospitals
JAMA Network Open, 8 (6), e2516351. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.16351. PMCID: PMC12175011.

Krawczyk N, Miller M, Englander H, Rivera BD, Schatz D, Chang J, Cerda M, Berry C, McNeely J (2025).
Toward a consensus on strategies to support opioid use disorder care transitions following hospitalization: A modified Delphi process
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 40 (5), 1048-1058. doi: 10.1007/s11606-024-09108-8. PMCID: PMC11968597.

Dr. Chang's ResearchGate Profile