Iris Chang
Health Policy and Management
Iris Sung Ah Chang is a first-year doctoral student in FSPH’s Department of Health Policy and Management. Her research agenda addresses the health and social policy of aging and long-term care, in addition to differences in access to care and health outcomes among vulnerable populations. Chang’s recent scholarship, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), examines cross-national governance and quality assurance frameworks within long-term care systems. Chang holds an MPH in Health Policy from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a BA and a BBA from Ewha Woman’s University in South Korea. Her academic trajectory is informed by nine years of policy practice at South Korea’s National Health Insurance Service (NHIS).
Pearl Anson-Tsang
Economics
Pearl Anson-Tsang is a first-year doctoral student in UCLA‘s Department of Economics. Her research spans applied microeconomics, including public economics, development economics, and political economy, with a primary focus on taxation and state capacity in low-income settings. Anson-Tsang’s thesis modeled strategic information transmission between taxpayers and tax authorities, examining how enforcement and delegation shape reporting behavior. Prior to joining UCLA, she was a Predoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University. Anson-Tsang holds an MS and BS in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.