Larry William Chang

Associate Professor
Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Johns Hopkins University
United States of America

Biography

Dr. Larry Chang is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise is infectious diseases, with a special focus on HIV. He also holds joint appointments in epidemiology and international health in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Chang received his medical degree and a master’s in public health from Emory University. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at the University of California-San Francisco and completed his fellowship in infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2009. His primary research interest is HIV implementation science with a focus on how best to implement HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention interventions in resource-constrained settings. He is a PI of the Rakai Health Sciences Program in Uganda. Dr. Chang is Director of the Inter-Center for AIDS Research Sub-Saharan Africa Working Group and Director of the the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research Implementation Science Scientific Working Group. He is a founder and Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative. Dr. Chang is a member of the International AIDS Society, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Research Intrest

HIV implementation science; HIV/AIDS Systematic Reviews and Guideline Development

List of Publications
Linas BS, Latkin C, Westergaard RP, Chang LW, Bollinger RC, Genz A, Kirk GD. "Capturing illicit drug use where and when it happens: an ecological momentary assessment of the social, physical and activity environment of using versus craving illicit drugs." Addiction. 2015 Feb;110(2):315-25.
Ferrada MA, Chang L. "A man with skin lesions and ataxia: a case of disseminated varicella zoster." Int J Infect Dis. 2015 Apr;33:55.

Linas BS, Latkin C, Genz A, Westergaard RP, Chang LW, Bollinger RC, Kirk GD. "Utilizing mHealth methods to identify patterns of high risk illicit drug use." Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 Jun 1;151:250-7.