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Grace Chan, MD, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology

Grace Chan is an epidemiologist and pediatrician, with expertise in maternal and child health. Her work focuses on the development of health and disease over the life course, using research to develop and implement sustainable clinical and public health interventions. As a perinatal and pediatric epidemiologist, Dr. Chan has led international collaborations with the World Health Organization and Save the Children. She serves on the technical advisory group with the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia.

Dr. Chan is a co-founder of HaSET, a global health and social justice NGO for mothers and children. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at HMS and a practicing physician in the Division of Medical Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is also an honorary faculty member at St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr. Chan is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and trained in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. She earned her PhD as an NIH Clinical Research Scholar from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, completing a post-doctoral fellowship at ICDDR,B in Bangladesh. Dr. Chan has trained health care workers, researchers and policy makers in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Ethiopia; and mentored many talented students and fellows.

Affiliation:

Boston Children's Hopital