Tammy Chang – The Conversation
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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 (NLP). She is also the founding director of MyVoice (www.hearmyvoicenow.org) a national text-message poll of youth age 14-24 that uses mixed methods
and NLP with the goal of informing local and national policies in real-time.
She currently serves on the NASEM’s Board on Children Youth and Families. Dr. 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.