Megan Kirk Chang

Megan Kirk Chang is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, specializing in digital health interventions, psychophysiological biomarkers, and clinical trial design. She holds a PhD in Kinesiology from York University (Canada) and an Advanced Doctoral Diploma in Health Psychology. Her work focuses on optimizing clinician and patient outcomes through mobile health applications, wearable technology, and remote self-monitoring.

Education: PhD in Kinesiology & Health Sciences (York University, Toronto), Advanced Doctoral Diploma in Health Psychology (York University). Postdoctoral training at Yale School of Medicine's Center for Emotional Intelligence. Extensive experience across Canada, USA, and the UK in academic and healthcare settings including CAMH and Toronto General Hospital.

Research interests include mental/physical health optimization via digital tools, trauma recovery, and biomarker identification for mental health conditions. She leads NIH-funded multi-site trials and directs the Health Behaviours Team. Beyond academia, she mentors early- and mid-career researchers (EMCRs) through 'CuppaCoach' sessions and offers mindfulness instruction to 18,500+ global students through her 'The Wisdom of Our Wounds' course on Insight Timer.

Her articles emphasize systematic reviews/meta-analyses on behavioral interventions, diet effects on cognitive health, and digital therapy efficacy. Current work explores ketogenic diets for treatment-resistant depression and PTSD detection via pupillometry.