Yu-Ping Chang, PhD, RN, FGSA, FIAAN, FAAN, is the Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Endowed Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship, and Division Chair for Family, Community, and Health Systems Sciences at the University of Buffalo School of Nursing.

Dr. Chang's research advances the science in some of today's most pressing health care topics, such as health inequities, opioid addictions, and mental health. She has utilized technological solutions and data science approaches in conjunction with nursing innovations to address and improve health outcomes. Her current research areas include promoting high-value, integrated behavioral health and primary care services for underserved populations, using telehealth technology to address behavioral health in primary care, and using wireless innovation such as mobile apps to improve health and well-being for underserved populations.

She also focuses on developing and testing primary care-based behavioral interventions to reduce opioid use disorder in older adults, family caregiving for people with dementia from home care to institutional care, using community engagement strategies to establish community-academic partnerships to promote mental health, and creating innovative inter-professional educational modules for behavioral health delivery designed to train nursing and behavioral health professionals. Through her work, she hopes to strengthen the behavioral health workforce and increase access to behavioral health services, especially for disadvantaged and underserved populations.

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