Grace Chan, MD, PhD, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist with expertise in maternal and child health. Her research focuses on the development of health and disease across 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 of the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia.
Dr. Chan is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and a practicing physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She also holds an honorary faculty appointment at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr. Chan has trained health care workers, researchers, and policymakers in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Ethiopia, and has mentored many talented students and fellows.
A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Chan completed her pediatrics training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. She earned her PhD as an NIH Clinical Research Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at ICDDR,B in Bangladesh.
