Connie S.  Chan

PhD, Boston University

Chair,

Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs

  

Research Interests and Specialties:
Mental Health Policy, Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, and Ethics.

Connie Chan is Chair of the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs and Program  Director of the Public Policy Ph.D. program.  She is also Professor of Human Services in the College of Public and Community Service at UMass Boston. 

Professor Chan has held several administrative positions within the University, most recently as Interim Dean of the College of Public and Community Service.  She was Co-Director of the UMass Boston Institute for Asian American Studies for ten years from 1993-2003. As Co-Director, she helped to create the Institute’s applied research and policy agenda focusing on the needs of the Asian-American population in Massachusetts and the United States.  In 2002, she was awarded a Polly Logan Research Fellowship by UMB’s Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy for her research study, “Health Needs Assessment of Chinese American  Elderly Women in the Boston area”.

A licensed clinical psychologist, Professor Chan has served on the staffs of the Boston Children’s Hospital, Westborough State Hospital, South Cove Community Health Center, and as a consulting psychologist for the Boston Juvenile Court and the MBTA Police. She presently serves as a supervising clinical psychologist for the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology at Boston Medical Center.

Professor Chan is author of the book, If It Runs in the Family: At Risk for Depression (Bantam Books) and has published many book chapters and journal articles on the mental health and health of Asian Americans. Most recently she published "Psychological Issues of Asian Americans" in Teaching Gender and Multicultural Awareness: Resources for the Multicultural Classroom (American Psychological Association), and "Counseling Chinese American lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals" in Asian Voices: Emerging Needs of Asian Americans (Jones and Bartlett).

A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Professor Chan has served as President of APA’s Division 44, as associate editor for the APA journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, and as chair of the Boston Women's Fund Board of Directors.  She is currently a member of the Ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association.

Office Location: McCormack Hall, third floor, room 427
Telephone: 617-287-7231

Email address: connie.chan@umb.edu connie.chan@umb.edu

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