I am Professor of Global Health Economics and Metrics at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) and the Danish Centre for Health Economics at the University of Southern Denmark.
My research interests lie in the areas of global health, health economics, and health metrics. I am committed to reducing health and wealth inequalities globally through my work, and motivated by the belief that research can provide the inputs needed to inform policies and improve resource allocation, and ultimately, impact population health. See list of publications here.
Currently, my ongoing projects include:
- Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health 3.0, chaired by Dean Jamison
- Measuring adult mortality inequality in low- and middle-income countries (with Julia Callaway, Brendan Lidral-Porter, Carlos Riumallo-Herl, Joseph Dieleman, Ole Norheim)
- Lifespan disparities in low- and middle-income countries, and predicting premature mortality in the Nordics (with Zeke Emanuel, Carlos Riumallo-Herl, Ole Norheim, Sarah Bolongaita, Emily Johnson, and others)
- Measuring experienced burden of disease in Denmark (ExpBoD) (with Liza Sopina, Emily Johnson, Oleguer Ripoll-Plana, Jes Søgaard)
- Defining gender (in)equality in health, in collaboration with the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health (with Virginia Zarulli, Sarah Hawkes, Kent Buse)
- Measuring the gendered impact of climate migration on health and well-being of youth migration, and system capacity in secondary cities in Uganda (with Rawlance Ndejjo, Sarah Ssali, Charles Ssemugabo, Elizabeth Stites, and Kimberly Howe)
I received my master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, doctoral degree from Harvard University, and postdoctoral training at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. I grew up in Taiwan and Japan, and am currently based in Copenhagen. When I am not at work, you will find me at local playgrounds pushing my three daughters on swings (for an unreasonable length of time).
I am also a regular contributor to a popular Taiwanese blog site, Crossing (in Mandarin Chinese).
For inquiry please email achang "at" health.sdu.dk