Michael Chao-Jung Chang

Michael Chang is a Chartered Town Planner and leading authority on healthy placemaking, with over 20 years shaping the relationship between the built environment and public health. He is co-author of Public Health Spatial Planning in Practice: Improving Health and Wellbeing (Policy Press, 2022) — widely described as the definitive text in its field.

Currently Healthy Planning Lead at NHS Property Services and PhD researcher at the University of Bristol, Michael holds honorary posts at UCL, UWE's WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, and Teesside University. He has published extensively across Cities & Health, Journal of Planning Literature, and Town & Country Planning.

A Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute and Royal Society for Public Health, he received the Faculty of Public Health President's Medal in 2025. He teaches at UCL, UWE, and the University of Birmingham, and speaks internationally on healthy cities, planning reform, and health inequalities.