Tammy Chang
Associate Professor and Co-Director, National Clinician Scholars Program at the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
Dr. Tammy Chang is a health services researcher and practicing family physician with a passion for adolescent health, specifically, breaking the cycle of poverty and poor health among adolescent mothers and their children.
Her NIH-sponsored research is focused on improving access to reproductive health care and promoting healthy pregnancy weight gain among at-risk adolescents using text messaging, social media mining, and natural language processing. She is also the founding director of MyVoice, a national text-message poll of youth age 14-24 that uses mixed methods and natural language processing with the goal of informing local and national policies in real-time.
Chang is a co-director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Michigan, where she trains junior faculty clinicians in health services research and teaches a master’s level course in leadership and communication. She actively mentors numerous high school students, undergraduate students, graduate students, medical students, and post-doctoral fellows to fill the pipeline of future health services researchers.
Chang is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and a practicing physician at the Corner Health Center and the Regional Alliance for Healthy Schools. She has received several national awards including the Academy Health Presidential Scholarship for New Health Services Researchers, the North American Primary Care Research Group Distinguished Trainee Award, and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Distinguished Paper Award. She has served on committees and working groups at the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and has co-authored two consensus reports on the health and development of adolescents.
She currently serves on the NASEM’s Board on Children Youth and Families. Chang has also served on the board of directors of both the North American Primary Care Research Group and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine where she served as the Chairperson of the Research Committee. Chang is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and conversant in Spanish.
MD University of Michigan Medical School; MPH University of Michigan; MS University of Michigan.
