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Biography
Tetsuji Yamada earned his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Health Economics from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. Dr. Yamada is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and a Faculty Fellow of Civic Engagement, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, U.S.A. In addition, he was a former Chairperson of Department of Economics, an Associate Faculty for the Graduate Faculty of M.A. and Ph.D. programs for the Department of Childhood Studies, and a Research Associate for the Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, USA.
Dr. Yamada was an Invited Research Scholar at Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan, was Research Scholar at Hosei Institute on Aging, Hosei University in Japan; and was a Researcher with the ASIA Health Policy Program, Stanford University.
Prior to his current position at the Rutgers University, Dr. Yamada served as a health economist at the International Leadership Center on Longevity and Society in New York, as a representative of the Japan Economic Federation, as a health economics research associate of the NBER, as a member faculty of the Research Fellows of NBER, as a health economics adviser of the WHO, as a visiting research scholar of the University of Tsukuba (Japan), as a research associate of the Center for the Pacific Basin of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, as an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Economics & Management at the Peking University, an associate professor of Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, as a faculty associate of the Walter Rand Institute in Rutgers University, and as an associate member in the Institute of Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research in Rutgers University.
His research fields emphasize health economics-related studies: health behaviors, health disparity, demand for healthcare services and outcomes, elderly care, preventive care, healthcare policy and health equity/disparity, accessibility of healthcare services, effectiveness of government healthcare policy, alcohol and drug abuse, hospital cost analysis, pharmaceuticals, and government policy, etc.
Dr. Yamada has published more than 100 research papers, been internationally active in presenting research papers at various professional conferences, and serve as editors, associate editors, referees and reviewers for various professional journals, books, and research funding organizations. His numerous publications appear in the health economics and public health fields.