Victoria Fan

Dr. Victoria Fan is a health economist and data scientist working in the areas of health policy and global health. She joined the Center for Global Development as a senior fellow in 2022, and is an associate professor of health policy (with tenure, on leave) in the College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

She founded the Pacific Health Analytics Collaborative (PHAC), which developed the Hawaii Behavioral Health Dashboard and supported the Hawaii Pandemic Applied Modeling (HiPAM) work group. From 2020 to 2022, she served as executive director of Hawaii CARES, a 24/7 integrated behavioral health call center. She has published over a hundred peer-reviewed journal articles, technical reports, and other writings.

She earned her doctor of science in global health and population from Harvard School of Public Health and bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is born and raised in Hawaii.