Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Kee Chan, Assistant Professor

Health Sciences

Kee Chan is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Her research program will focus on evaluating the policy development on innovative medical technologies in children’s health by studying the relationships between genetic and psychosocial determinants during perinatal period, infancy and adolescence. As a fellow in the Graduate Partnerships Program at National Institutes of Health, Kee Chan conducted her research at the National Human Genome Research Institute while completing her PhD in epidemiology of microbial diseases from Yale University School of Public Health. Her specific aims were to develop a newborn screening test for severe combined immunodeficiency, understand T cell diversity during gestation and the neonatal period and evaluate the costs and benefits of newborn screening. She received both her Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Master of Science in Biology from the University of California, San Diego.