About CHRT

Dr. Tammy Chang is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan and a practicing family physician. She 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 via community-engaged research.
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. She is also the founding director of MyVoice (www.hearmyvoicenow.org) a national text-message poll of youth age 14-24 years. MyVoice engages youth and
communities typically invisible to researchers and uses mixed methods to inform local and national policies in real-time.
Dr. Chang is also the Director of the Health Behavior Optimization for Michigan (HBOM) Collaborative Quality Initiative, a statewide clinical quality improvement initiative with funding and support from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Through her leadership, HBOM uses cutting-edge behavior change strategies to transform clinical practices and priorities.
Dr. Chang is the 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. She currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Children Youth and Families and 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.