Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND, and Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Joan Chang is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and doctoral candidate at Pardee RAND Graduate School. Prior to joining RAND, she taught languages in East Asia, studied science and public health in the United States, and researched health care in South Asia. Her professional experience includes fieldwork with the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences, policy research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and community advocacy and humanitarian strategy. Her research on the experiences of rural community care and well-being received the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Global Healthcare.
With formal training in quantitative and qualitative research, she earned certificates in Japan and Taiwan and graduate degrees in the U.S. in health and policy as well as recognition in Singapore. At RAND she has worked on health, safety, technology, social equity, sustainable development, international relations, and law and ethics, with particular attention to fellow vulnerable populations. Her comparative analysis of policymaking in the US and Asia is supported by the Pardee RAND Cazier Initiative and the Atsuhiko Tateuchi Foundation. Presently she contributes to interdisciplinary research projects and engages in international policy teamwork.
M.Phil. in public policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.S. in global health, UCSF; B.S. in sciences and humanities, UC Berkeley
