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E-Shien Chang, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of Gerontology in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York City, New York, United States


E-Shien “Iggy” Chang, PhD MA is an Assistant Professor of Gerontology in Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. A multidisciplinary social scientist and health equity researcher, Dr. Chang’s research centers on the social and structural determinants of elder mistreatment with a particular emphasis on supporting marginalized older adults and their caregivers. Moving beyond a focus on individual-level risk factors, her research considers how structural mechanisms, including ageism and racism, play a significant role in shaping the risk and responses to elder mistreatment across community, clinical, and public health systems. To advance elder justice nationally and internationally, she has served in many advocacy and advisory roles including her most recent role as a science contributor to the World Health Organization’s Global Report on Ageism. Dr. Chang’s methodological expertise is grounded in population-based observational studies using large international, national, and survey databases. She also frequently employs both qualitative and quantitative approaches in her community-based participatory research work. Dr. Chang currently holds a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to investigate the role of race/ethnicity in resident-to-resident aggression among increasingly racially/ethnically diverse long-term care populations to inform a novel staff education intervention. Dr. Chang completed a NIA-funded T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. She received PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Yale School of Public Health and her MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.

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