Janice Tzeng

Janice Tzeng is a public health research analyst in RTI’s Patient and Family Engagement Research Program in the Center for Communication Science. She currently works on multiple projects for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Ms. Tzeng has over a decade of experience implementing both qualitative and mixed methods research, including designing case studies and program evaluations, conducting in-depth interviews, focus groups, and literature reviews, and leading large-scale qualitative coding efforts.  Ms.Tzeng has extensive experience planning and leading qualitative research with consumers, patients and providers on topics such as cancer survivorship, chronic disease prevention and care, and prescription drug promotion, use and safety.

Prior to joining RTI, Ms.Tzeng conducted cancer survivorship research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, focusing on patient-reported outcomes and patient expectations of early-phase oncology trials. She also conducted risk communication research on genomic testing while in graduate school at the Gillings School of Global Public Health.