Charlotte Chang, DrPH, MPH 2123 West Street, Berkeley, CA 94702 510-333-0089 cychang@berkeley.edu EDUCATION 2006 2010 DrPH University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA Evaluation and Adaptations of a Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership in San Francisco s Chinatown Meredith Minkler (Dissertation Chair), Irene Bloemraad, Cheri Pies, Thomas Rundall 2004 2006 MPH, Health Behavior and Health Education University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 1994 1998 BA, Public Policy, Chinese minor College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA RESEARCH INTERESTS Community-based participatory research, evaluation, immigrant health, worker health, research translation and dissemination, research partnerships, civic participation. RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2010 Post-Doctoral Scholar, Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP), Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. 2007 2010 Evaluator, Worker Health and Safety in Chinatown Restaurants: A CBPR Study, San Francisco, CA (Meredith Minkler, DrPH, Principal Investigator, funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) 2009 present Researcher, Scientific Advisory Committee on Community-Based Participatory Research, University of New Mexico. 2009 2011 Research Consultant, Cognitive Testing of HRQOL Items Using Asian Sample, L&M Policy Research under contract to Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. 2008 Student Researcher, Learning Civic Engagement: Political Socialization in Chinese, Vietnamese and Mexican-Origin Families with Mixed Citizenship Status, Berkeley, CA, (Irene Bloemraad, PhD, Principal Investigator, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation) 2006 2007 Student Coordinator, Health and Im/Migration Graduate Student Workshop Series, University of California, Berkeley
C Chang page 2005 2006 Research Assistant, Center for Health Communications Research, University of Michigan Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI (Victor Strecher, PhD and Jean Shope, PhD, Principal Investigators) 2005 MPH Intern, Asian Health Services (AHS), Oakland, CA 2004 2005 Program Assistant, Older Adult Services, Ann Arbor, MI 2000 2003 Senior Consultant/Consultant, Health Practice, BearingPoint, Inc., McLean, VA 2000 2003 Treasurer/Board Member, Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project, Washington, DC 1999 2000 Research Assistant, American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC 1999 Program Assistant, Asian Cultural Council, Hong Kong, SAR 1998 Program Fellow, US/China Links, Qingdao, Wuhan, China TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2010 Lecturer, Division of Community Health and Human Development, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. Course: Theories of Health and Social Behavior Spring 2009, 2010 Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley Course: Introduction to Community Health and Human Development Instructor: William Satariano, PhD, MPH Fall 2007, 2008, 2009 Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley Course: Public Health Core Breadth Course Health and Social Behavior Instructor: Meredith Minkler, DrPH 1997 1998 Teaching Assistant, College of William and Mary Courses: Beginning and Intermediate Chinese Instructors: Xiaobin Jian, PhD; Yanfang Tang, PhD PUBLICATIONS Minkler, M., & Chang, C. (In press). Participatory research and action. In I. Kawachi (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chang, C., Salvatore, A., Lee, P., Liu, S. S., & Minkler, M. (In press). Popular education, participatory research, and community organizing. In M. Minkler (Ed.), Community Organizing and Community Building for Health. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Gaydos, M., Bhatia, R., Morales, A., Lee, P., Chang, C., Salvatore, A., et al. (2011). Promoting Health Equity and Safety in San Francisco s Chinatown Restaurants: Findings and Lessons Learned from a Pilot Observational Survey. Public Health Reports, 126(Suppl. 3), 62-69.
C Chang page Minkler, M., Lee, P. T., Tom, A., Chang, C., Morales, A., Liu, S. S., et al. (2010). Using community-based participatory research to design and initiate a study on immigrant worker health and safety in San Francisco's Chinatown restaurants. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 53(4), 361-371. Minkler, M., Breckwich Vasquez, V., Chang, C., & Miller, J. (2008). Promoting healthy public policy through community-based participatory research: Ten case studies. Oakland: PolicyLink. Strecher, V.J., Shope, J., Bauermeister, J.A., Chang, C., Newport-Berra, M., Giroux, A., & Guay, E. (2006). Predictors of safe driving behaviour: towards an integrative model. Behavioural Research in Road Safety 2006: Sixteenth Seminar. London: UK Department of Transport. Cherry, K., Bradshaw, A., Crelia, S., Quinn, R., Thompson, V., and Chang, C. (2001). Social marketing and aging Americans: Formative research to direct a national campaign about long-term care. Social Marketing Quarterly 7(3), 89-92. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Chang, C., Lee, P.T., Liu, S.S., Tom, A., Salvatore, A., Gaydos, M., Baker, R., and Minkler, M. (In preparation). Adapting to context in CBPR: Participatory starting points in a Chinese immigrant worker community. Chang, C., and Minkler, M. (In preparation). Review of community-based participatory research principles using an evaluation perspective. PRESENTATIONS 2011 (Poster) Chang, C. Salvatore, A., Lee, P.T., Liu, S., Tom, A., Gaydos, M., Baker, R., and Minkler, M. Community contexts & participatory starting points : Adapting community-based participatory research to improve health & working conditions of immigrant workers. American Public Health Association, Washington, DC. 2011 Baker, R., Chang, C. and Bunting, J. A Research to Practice Initiative in Construction Safety and Health. American Public Health Association, Washington, DC. 2011 Chang, C. Research to Practice (r2p): Theory and Application. Western Occupational Network Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. 2011 Chang, C., Salvatore, A., and Lee, P.T. Engaging Community Partners in Designing Study Instruments, Collecting Data and Interpreting Findings: A Case Study with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco s Chinatown. CBPR Summer Institute, San Francisco, CA. 2011 Chang, C. Spectrum of Community-Based Participatory Research. Community- Engaged Research Partnership 101, Health Research Partnerships in Asian Communities, Fremont, CA. 2009 Chang, C., Lee, P.T., Tom, A., Liu, S., Gaydos, M., Salvatore, A., Baker, R., Krause, N., Bhatia, R., and Minkler, M. Conducting CBPR in a Chinese immigrant worker
community: Benefits, challenges, and adaptations. Asian American Health Conference, New York, NY. C Chang page 2008 The Chinatown Restaurant Worker Health & Safety Project: A Community-Based Participatory Research Collaboration. Prospective Student Spring Visit Day, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health. 2007 Minkler, M., Chang, C., Lee, P.T., Salvatore, A. Mar, G., Tom, A., and Bhatia, R. Developing a CBPR partnership with Chinatown restaurant workers: Lessons from the beginning of the story, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC 2007 CBPR: What s It All About? Training conducted for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, San Francisco, CA PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES 2008 present National Advisory Committee on Community-Based Participatory Research, Member 2006 present American Public Health Association, Member 2009-2010 City of Berkeley Community Health Commission, Commissioner 2009-2010 Faculty Search Committee, UC Berkeley School of Public Health Department of Health and Social Behavior, Student Member 2004 2006 Asian American Public Health Student Association, University of Michigan School of Public Health (President/ Community Outreach Chair) AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2009 Invited Young Investigator Mentee, Advancing the Science of Community Intervention Conference, Chicago, Illinois 2009 UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award 2006 2010 Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study, University of California, Berkeley 2005 Department of Health Behavior and Health Education Field Placement Scholarship, University of Michigan School of Public Health 2005 Zeitz Family Field Placement Award, University of Michigan School of Public Health 2004-2006 Dean s Office Merit Scholarship, University of Michigan School of Public Health 1998 Phi Beta Kappa, College of William and Mary 1998 Golden Key International Honor Society 1994-1998 James Monroe Scholar, College of William and Mary LANGUAGE Fluent Mandarin Chinese, intermediate reading and writing
OTHER ACTIVITIES C Chang page 2003 2004 Travel and language study in China and Southeast Asia 1996 Study abroad, Chinese language and culture, William and Mary Program at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China