Wan-Ting Chen, Ph.D.

Wan-Ting Chen is a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development, Translational Center for Child Maltreatment Studies. Her research program leverages administrative data and advanced quantitative methods to 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 doctoral research examines the trajectories of substance-exposed infants in the child protection system, employing quantitative methods to analyze over a decade of linked administrative data on millions of births in California. As a postdoctoral scholar, she continues to investigate health and safety outcomes among substance-affected children in the child welfare system.