Keith Chan, PhD, LMSW, is Co-Chair of the Aging Curriculum, Chair of the Policy Curriculum, Social Welfare Policy Chair, and Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, City University of New York. As a social worker, scholar and educator, his research focuses on the social determinants of physical and mental health for vulnerable populations, in particular for Asian Americans, immigrants and older adults, as well as the impact of the opioid epidemic across the lifespan.
His research has been funded by the Minority Fellowship Program, the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute of Aging, and the John A. Hartford Foundation. He is currently serves as co-Investigator of the NIMHD-funded Rutgers-NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity (CAHPE), Community Engagement Core and the NIA-funded Research Center for Alzheimer's and Dementia Research in Asian and Pacific Americans (RCASIA). In addition, since 2020, he has provided his research expertise as Congressional Fellow through the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, Democratic Staff, on issues related to mental health, disability, and population health data.
Dr. Chan’s social work practice experience is primarily with persons diagnosed with serious mental illness within minority, immigrant and older adult populations. Beginning in 2018, he was appointed by the Office of the Governor of New York to serve as a Council Member of the New York State Interagency Geriatric Mental Health and Chemical Dependence Planning Council. At Silberman Social Work at Hunter College, he teaches Social Work Research and Clinical Practice with Older Adults.
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