Keith Chan, PhD, LMSW

Keith Chan, PhD, LMSW, is a social worker, scholar and educator and Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. His research focuses on Asian Americans, immigrants and older adults, as well as the impact of the opioid epidemic across the lifespan. He 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 currently serves as co-Investigator of the NIMHD-funded Rutgers-NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion and Excellence (CAHPE), Community Engagement Core, and the P30 Resource Center for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research in Asian and Pacific Americans (RCASIA). In addition, he provides 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.