Elizabeth Tung, MD, MS

Dr. Elizabeth Tung is a Co-Investigator of the “Harmonizing Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs with a Novel Medical-Legal Partnership for Equity in the Social and Structural Determinants of Health” project at University of Chicago and is a member of the 1. Community Engagement Workgroup, 2. Data & Methods Workgroup, 3. Policy, Implementation and Evaluation Workgroup, and 4. the Communication and Dissemination Workgroup.

Dr.Tung is a social epidemiologist and practicing internist in the Section of General Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago. Dr. Tung’s research focuses on the impact of social conditions on health, with a special interest in race, place, and poverty. She has participated in community-based strategies to improve health on the South and West Sides of Chicago, which has led to a vested commitment to advancing health equity and eradicating disparities. Her current research focuses on intersections between community violence, trauma, and chronic disease. She brings conceptual expertise and detailed knowledge of place-based measures of social risk, and uses geospatial analytical methods in addition to traditional clustered regression techniques in her quantitative work. Her work plays a vital role in bridging the worlds of violence epidemiology and health. Her K23 award, funded by the National Heart Lung Blood Institute (NHLBI), examines violence as a social risk factor for metabolic and cardiovascular diseases.