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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

Krawczyk N, Miller M, Englander H, Rivera BD, Schatz D, Chang J, Cerda M, Berry C, McNeely J (2024).
Toward a consensus on strategies to support opioid use disorder care transitions following hospitalization: A modified Delphi process
Journal of General Internal Medicine [Epub 2024 Oct 22]. doi: 10.1007/s11606-024-09108-8.

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, 67 (4), 568-580. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2024.05.018.

Lindenfeld Z, Mauri A, Chang JE (2024).
Examining the relationship between local governmental expenditures on the social determinants of health and county-level overdose deaths, 2017-2020
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice [Epub 2024 Sep 13]. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001983.

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, 39 (12), 2150-2159. doi: 10.1007/s11606-024-08883-8. PMCID: PMC11347514.

Lindenfeld Z, Cantor JH, Chang JE (2024).
Trends in the availability of comprehensive services within outpatient substance use treatment facilities from 2018 to 2022
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse [Epub 2024 Jul 30]. doi: 10.1080/00952990.2024.2370462.

Dr. Chang's ResearchGate Profile