Biography

Dr. Chung is Principal Investigator of Employment and Family Leave Among Parents of Newborn or Chronically Ill Children, a K23 career development project funded by NICHD that examines how parents choose between work and family when confronted with a child's birth or serious illness and explores how family leave programs might affect these choices. He is also Principal Investigator of Alcohol Advertising and Adolescents, a project funded by a Pfizer Faculty Scholars grant that examines adolescent exposure to alcohol advertising on television. Dr. Chung is Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Schuster on Paid Family Leave and Parents of Chronically Ill Children, an R21 project funded by NICHD that examines uptake and effects of California's first-in-the-nation paid family leave insurance program among this group of vulnerable parents.Dr. Chung is Director of the UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA, Senior Natural Scientist at RAND, and Faculty Affiliate of the California Center for Population Research. He is the University Research Representative of the Los Angeles County Children's Planning Council, the county's principal policy group for children and families.