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. In that role, 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 UMass
Boston’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. 

Research Reports

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A Survey of Health Services and Identification of Needs for Asian American Elderly Women in the Greater Boston Area (with Lin Zhan), Institute for Asian American Studies Publications (2002)

Over one hundred Asian American and mainstream health care providers in the greater Boston area...