Wendy Chan, assistant professor in the human development and quantitative methods division of Penn GSE, was awarded a grant from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for $21,456 for “Reducing Disparities in Behavioral Health Treatment for Children in Primary Care.” This study assesses the impact of a behavioral therapy program on patient-
centered outcomes for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The study will focus primarily on low-income households.

Dr. Chan specializes in applied educational statistics, and her research projects and interests are at the leading edge of work on statistics methods in field contexts, including scaling up interventions. With partial identification, her work examines the role of alternative assumptions to strong ignorability of sample selection in making inferences on population parameters. With small area estimation, Dr. Chan’s work considers use of small area models in improving the precision of estimators when there is limited sample size. Aside from her work on generalization, Dr. Chan’s research has ventured into power analyses and analyzed the extent to which analogies in design parameters can be made.