Family Physician; Speaker of the House, Board of Directors, National Association of Community Health Centers; Co-Founder, HEAL Trafficking

Kimberly S.G. Chang, MD, MPH, is a Family Physician with over 25 years of experience working in community health centers. In 2015, Dr. Chang completed the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Policy Leadership at Harvard, examining the role of federally qualified health centers in addressing human trafficking. Previously, Dr. Chang was the inaugural Clinic Director of the Frank Kiang Medical Center and provided care for many commercially sexually exploited children. She trained thousands of front-line multidisciplinary professionals on the human trafficking healthcare connections, provided invited expert testimony to the US Helsinki Commission on “Best Practices in Rescuing Trafficking Victims”, served on the National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States, and co-founded HEAL Trafficking. She is the Speaker of the House on the Executive Board of Directors for the National Association of Community Health Centers. She has been featured in the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, PBS Newshour, the Sacramento Bee, and several podcasts. Dr. Chang received her BA from Columbia University, her MD from the University of Hawaii, specialized in family medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and earned her MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is the recipient of many awards and honors including national recognition with a Physician Advocacy Merit Award from the Institute on Medicine as a Profession, the Harvard 2020 Emerging Public Health Professional Award, and the UCSF 2021 Alumni Humanitarian Service Award.