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Peter Chang was born in Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong and worked for two years at the only psychiatric hospital in Hong Kong at the time. When he was 26 years old, he relocated to Canada and pursued psychiatry training at the University of Toronto. Upon finishing his training, Chang went to work in Thunder Bay as part of an underserviced area program under the Ontario Ministry of Health.
Chang began to notice the gaps in services for the Asian population, and in 1983, he was one of the three founding members of the Hong Fook Mental Health Association and Foundation, which strives to provide culturally sensitive services in five Asian languages and address the stigma of mental illness in the Asian community.
After decades in the psychiatry field, he decided to go back to school at the age of 45 and graduated with a degree in law from the University of Toronto. He was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 2018 for his work improving East Asian communities’ access to mental health services.
He resides in his retirement in Thornhill.
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Created by Alston So, March 2026.