Wan-Ting Chen (she/her/hers)

Wan-Ting Chen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work and a research assistant with the Children’s Data Network. Her program of research leverages administrative data and advanced quantitative methods to better document and understand variations in national and state responses to child maltreatment, and accompanying health disparities that may emerge. Wan-Ting has led and participated in collaborative projects between interprofessional scholars and practitioners, both in the U.S. and internationally. Informed by her interdisciplinary training and experience working with large datasets, Wan-Ting’s dissertation examines the trajectories of substance-exposed infants in the child protection system, employing advanced quantitative methods, including time-varying covariates and Cox proportional hazard models, to analyze over a decade of linked administrative data on millions of births. In addition to her research, Wan-Ting has teaching experience with graduate social work courses in macro social work practice and program evaluation. She received her Master of Science in Public Health from National Yang-Ming University (Taiwan) and has secured competitive funding to support her doctoral program.