Tim BROWN, Ph.D. University of Hawaii, 1984. He is a Senior Fellow in Population and Health Studies at the East-West Center. He is currently working with UNAIDS, FHI and other regional partners to develop estimation and projection tools and methodologies for global and Asia-specific application, implement more comprehensive integrated policy analysis of Asian HIV epidemics and responses, and support the development of 2nd generation surveillance systems in Asia and the Pacific. His research interests include public policy for HIV/AIDS prevention, mitigation and treatment, HIV and children, infectious disease epidemiology, HIV related behaviors, and modeling and projection of HIV and its impacts.

Murray CHAPMAN, Ph.D. University of Washington, 1970. He is an Emeritus Professor of Geography and Population Studies. His research interests include population geography, human mobility, generational change and identity, field methods, and Melanesia.

Jiajian CHEN, Ph.D. University of Western Ontario, 1991. He is a Senior Fellow at Population and Health Studies, East-West Center. His responsibilities include conducting collaborative demographic and epidemiological research with China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), State Population and Family Planning Commission, Family Health International and Provincial Center for Disease Control in Yunnan and Guangxi provinces on issues related to population dynamics, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS epidemic in China. He has taught a full graduate core course on Methods of Demographic Analysis at UH this spring 2006. Currently he is working with senior fellows at EWC and senior specialist at NBS on a joint report of provincial fertility analysis using the 1990 and 2000 census data. He is also working with senior fellow (Tim Brown, PI at EWC) and Yunnan CDC on a joint report of synthesis report of HIV/AIDS epidemic in Yunnan. He has also been the secretary of the Association of National Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia, and the Pacific (ANCSDAAP), responsible for organizing the Population Census Conferences for three years. Before working at EWC, he was previously a senior researcher and chief working at the health statistics division of Statistics Canada.

Lee-Jay CHO, Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1965. He is an Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Economics, and Chairman, Northeast Asian Economic Forum. His main interests include regional economic cooperation in Northeast Asia; Globalization and institutional development; Population policy and demography.  He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago, a doctorate in economics from Keio University, and a doctorate in demographic science from the University of Tokyo.

He is the founding chairman of the Northeast Asia Economic Forum, and his research interests include issues of population, development, and regional economic cooperation among China, Japan, the Korean peninsula, Mongolia, and the Russian Far East.

A representative selection of his books includes A Vision for Economic Globalization in the Twenty-First Century:  Impact and Consequences for East Asia and Korea; The Challenge of Post-demographic Transition:  Implications for the Global Economy; Industrial Globalization in the Twenty-First Century:  Impacts for Korea and East Asia; The Multilateral Trading Systems in a  Globalizing World; Ten Paradigms of Market Economies and Land Systems;  Tradition and Change in the Asian Family;  Economic Development and Population Dynamics in Asia and the Pacific Region (in Japanese); and Population Dynamics and Policy in the People's Republic of China.

Minja Kim CHOE, Ph.D. University of Hawaii, 1983. She is a Senior Fellow at East-West Center. She received Master’s Degree in Mathematics from University of Chicago and Ph.D. degree in Epidemiology-Biostatistics from University of Hawaii. Her current research interests include Family and Gender Issues, Health Behavior of Adolescents and Young Adults, Fertility and Reproductive Health, Child Survival, and Statistical Analysis of Demographic Process.

Arnaud DELLIS, Ph.D. Cornell University, 2004. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Hawai'i - Manoa. His research fields are political economics and population/public economics. Recent research topics are: micro-modelization of retirement decisions; family taxation; delays in the adoption of (socially beneficial) reforms; and theoretical comparisons of electoral systems.

C. Michael DOUGLASS, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1982.  He is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, and the Director of Globalization Research Center.  He has taught at universities in Japan, Thailand, Holland, England and the U.S. (UCLA and Stanford) and has lived and worked for many years in Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Thailand where he has been a consultant for the UN, World Bank, OECD, USAID, World Resources Institute as well as national and local governments. Current research on globalization in Pacific Asia: inter-city competition in the New Economy; international migration; new forms of urban poverty and the Asian crisis; livable, sustainable cities; the globalization of civic spaces. UH has identified him as one of ninety fabulous faculty.

Nina ETKIN, Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis, 1975. She is Professor of Anthropology and Graduate Chair at the University of Hawaii, and one of the faculty of the Medical Anthropology concentration. She is appointed as well to the Cancer Research Center and the Department of Ecology and Health (UH Medical School); and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and Past President of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology.  She is best known for her pioneering work on the pharmacologic implications of plant use, especially the interrelations among medicines and foods.  Professor Etkin’s research addresses both the cultural and the pharmacologic aspects of botanicals and human cultures, including polypharmacy and the role of CAM (complementary and alternative medicines) in integrative medicine in the US.  She has field and laboratory experience in northern Nigeria (among Hausa), eastern Indonesia (Maluku), and contemporary Hawaii.  She links in-depth ethnography with laboratory studies through an interdisciplinary perspective that links physiology, culture, and society to understand the dialectics of nature and culture in diverse ecologic and ethnographic settings.  Professor Etkin has regular invitations to present keynote addresses at, and serve on the scientific advisory boards of, international conferences.  She has published extensively on indigenous medicines and ethnopharmacology, recently completied a book on food pharmacology, and has edited four others on plant medicines, medicinal foods, and pharmaceuticals.  She was awarded the University of Hawaii Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Research.  Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Social Science Research Council, National Geographical Society, American Heart Association, Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards, the Howe Foundation, and the Bush Foundation.   She has published extensively in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Social Science and Medicine, Africa, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Medical Anthropology, Nature, and the American Journal of Public Health.  She was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Reviews in Anthropology, and serves on the Editorial Board of 10 professional journals.

Gary FULLER, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1972.  He is an Emeritus Professor of Geography and Population Studies. His main interests include consequences of population growth (especially political stability), geography of fertility and fertility control.

Timothy HALLIDAY, Ph.D. Princeton University, 2004. He joined the faculty of the University of Hawai’i at M­­anoa as an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the department of economics and the school of medicine.  His research interests lie at the nexus of development economics, health economics and population economics with a strong emphasis on rigorous econometric work.  Some topics that he has researched in the past include the use of migration as a means mitigating the impact of economic risk in developing countries, the empirical modeling of the evolution of health over the life-cycle and the impact of economic shocks on morbidity and mortality.  Currently, he is starting to do work on the impact of skewed sex ratios on economic and health outcomes in Hawai’i in the period of 1900 to 1930 with Sumner La Croix.  In addition, he is also commencing work on the measurement of per capita living standards using survey data when the household’s underlying demographic structure changes during the survey period.  Finally, with colleagues at the medical school, he has been collaborating to design and implement cost-effective analyses which will gauge the efficacy of various medical interventions.  

Muthusami KUMARAN, Ph.D. University of Madras, 1991, and University of Louisville, Kentucky, 2002. Currently he is an  Assistant Professor in Public Administration. His main research interests include community development, civil rights issues and policies, deliberative democracy, and nonprofit management. Well developed expertise as well as advanced academic and professional background in Public Administration; Public Policy Making; Urban Planning and Development; Urban Politics and Administration; Policy Analysis/Evaluation; Neighborhood Revitalization/ Development Planning; Strategic Planning for Community Development; Non-profit Management; and Affirmative Action.

Sumner J. LA CROIX, Ph.D. University of Washington, 1981. He is Professor in the Department of Economics, and Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Economics Study Area at the East-West Center, and an affiliate faculty member with the Center for Chinese Studies. Dr. La Croix has held visiting positions at the University of Canterbury, the Australian Graduate School of Management, Fudan University, the University of California-Berkeley, Barnard College – Columbia University, and Johns Hopkins University-Bologna. His research focuses on the economic history, development, and current state of economies in the Asia Pacific region, with an emphasis on issues pertaining to institutional change, property rights, and organization and regulation of industry. He is co-editor of Japan’s New Economy: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press 2001) and Institutional Change in Japan (Routledge 2006), a contributor to Historical Statistics of the United States, millennium edition (Cambridge University Press 2005), and co-author of Government and the American Economy from Colonial Times to the Present (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2006). Current research projects include projects on intellectual property rights and trade agreements; China’s international trade; baseball in Japan; property right in Dutch South Africa; economic education in Hawaii; and the economic history of Hawaii.

Hye-Ryeon LEE, Ph.D. Stanford University, 2000. She is an Assistant Professor, Speech Communication Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  She is also on faculty of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, the Center for Korean Studies, and the Population Studies Program at the University of Hawaii.  Before her move to Hawaii, she was a research faculty at the Arizona Cancer Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson. 

Hye-ryeon is a graduate of Ewha Women’s Univeristy.  She received her Ph.D. in Communication and M.A. in Political Science from Stanford University.  She also has a M.A degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from University of Wisconsin at Madison. 

Her primary teaching and research interests are in health communication and health policy research.  Specifically, she is interested in studying the process through which interpersonal and mass-mediated communication influences individual perceptions about social norms and expectations regarding health behaviors.  She has directed many research projects in the area of tobacco use prevention and control, participated in a project to develop school based multi-media tobacco cessation program, worked on various evaluation projects to assess effectiveness of community-based interventions for tobacco, youth violence and HIV prevention in Arizona and California.  

Hye-ryeon is currently working on several projects including an exercise-based smoking cessation programs for college students, and a community intervention to develop a minimum infrastructure for smoking cessation and health promotion within the Korean immigrant community.  She is also in the process of conducting independent evaluations of the statewide media campaign of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund in Hawaii.

Sang-Hyop LEE, Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1998. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, an Affiliate Member of the Center for Korean Studies at UH Manoa, and an Adjunct Fellow of the Population and Health Program at the East-West Center. His research encompasses labor economics, population economics, human resources, and applied econometrics. He received his Ph.D. from the Michigan State University in 1998.

Dr. Lee has studied several aspects of the consequences of government influence on labor markets, human resources, and population. Currently he is working with Dr. Andrew Mason to examine the -relationships between aging, labor-force dynamics, generational transfer, and economic development. His work has been published numerous peer reviewed journals, as well as in prestigious handbook series and edited volumes. His most recent articles appeared in journals such as Labor Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Industrial Relations, Demographic Research, and Review of Economics of the Household and in books such as Handbook of Agricultural Economics and Handbook of Asian Aging. He is also co-editor of two recent books on Korea. He has been investigator of numerous funded projects.

Yean-Ju LEE, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1990. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the current Director of Population Studies Program. Her main interests include aging, gender stratification, family issues, and East Asia.

Jay MADDOCK, Ph.D. University of Rhode Island, 1999. He is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  He holds a doctoral degree in Psychology from the University of Rhode Island.  Professor Maddock’s has led the evaluation of the Healthy Hawaii Initiative, a statewide program to reduce chronic disease risk factors since 2000.  He is an author of over 90 scientific articles, chapters and abstracts on community level health promotion and is the Associate Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Health Promotion.  He is also chair of the Hawaii Board of Health and Immediate Past Chair of the Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii.

Andrew MASON, Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1975. He is Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.  He is a member of the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Harvard Program on the Global Demography of Aging.  He was a Visiting Professor, Institut d’Etudes de Politique de Paris in 1998 and a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983-84.   He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1975.

His research addresses the long-term inter-relationships between demographic and economic change, particularly the macroeconomic implications of changes in age structure.  He is co-directing (with Ronald Lee) an international project involving researchers from more a dozen countries developing a comprehensive approach to measuring and studying the systems countries use to meet the economic needs of children and the elderly.  When completed, National Transfer Accounts will be used to study the evolution of familial support systems, public pension, health care, and education systems and their influence on economic growth, generational equity, and other features of the macroeconomy. 

His most recent books are Sharing the Wealth: Demographic change and economic transfers between generations, Oxford University Press, co-edited with Georges Tapinos, and Population Growth and Economic Development in East Asia: Challenges Met, Opportunities Seized, Stanford University Press. 

Karen Oppenheim MASON, Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1970. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. A university professor and researcher for most of her career, she was the Director for Gender and Development at the World Bank from 1999 through 2004.  She is a past president of the Population Association of America (1997) and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Southampton in 2001. Throughout her career, her work has focused on women’s and gender issues, initially in the United States, then in Asia and the Pacific and, more recently, globally. Trained as a sociologist, Mason’s research has also focused on population change and changes in family systems.

Alvin T. ONAKA, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1975. Currently he is the State Registar of Vital Statistics, and Chief, Office of Health Status Monitoring, Department of Health, State of Hawaii. His primary interests include social demography, public health assessment, Asian-American issues, Hawai'i, and Japan.

Robert RETHERFORD, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1970. He is Coordinator of Population and Health Studies at the East-West Center. He joined the East-West Center in 1970 after receiving his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. His current research focuses on below-replacement fertility and population aging in East Asia, a variety of maternal and child health issues in South Asia, and innovative uses of multivariate survival models for analyzing fertility. At one  time or another, he has taught most of the courses offered by the U. H. Population Studies Program. In Fall 2006, he will teach Population Studies 650 (Introduction to Human  Population), which is one of two core courses required for the Population Studies Certificate.

Gerard RUSSO, Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1989. He is an Associate Professor of Economics, and Adjunct Fellow, Population and Health Studies at the East - West Center.  His research interests include health economics, applied microeconomics, consumer expenditure analysis; economics of AIDS/HIV prevention; and Southeast Asia.

Carolyn STEPHENSON, Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1980.  Associate Professor of Political Science.  She is a member of the Policy Committee of the Program on Conflict Resolution, and directs the Hawai'i Model United Nations.  Before coming to UH in 1985, she was Director of Peace Studies at Colgate University, and a Scholar-in-Residence at Radcliffe.  She worked with UNESCO in 2001, and in 2002 was a Fulbright Fellow in Cyprus.  Dr. Stephenson’s major research is in three areas:  1) alternative international security systems, including mediation, sanctions, nonviolent action, and peacekeeping, 2) non-governmental organizations and United Nations conference diplomacy in the areas of environment, women, and disarmament, and 3) gender, conflict and conflict resolution.  She teaches international organization, conflict resolution, and gender, population, and the environment, among other courses.

Peter XENOS, Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1970. He is a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center; Affiliate Graduate Faculty, Department of Sociology and Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii.

Dr. Xenos has had a continuing interest in long-term social change across Asia, reflected in reflected in a line of research aimed at depicting changes over many decades of the twentieth century He has employed the methods of historical demography to study long-term social and demographic change in the Philippines based on that country’s local, Roman Catholic parish records. He has published a collection of essays in Philippine historical demography and is currently completing another volume on historical demographic change in Southeast Asia.

Dr. Xenos also has focused in recent years on research into the living conditions, problems, behaviors and contribution to development of youth in Asian societies. Against the background of a rapidly changing social demography of youth, he has examined issues relating to the emergence of adolescence as a social condition and stage of life, on the policy-recognition of this emergence, and particularly on topics relating to the rise of pre-marital sexuality and other forms of youth risk-taking behavior. These research activities have involved a network of Asian and U.S. investigators into youth reproductive health issues. This network’s accumulation of experience in data collection and analysis has led to two further lines of activity. On the substantive side, is comparative investigation of Asian youth issues based on the surveys listed above and others. On the methodological side, carrying out national surveys in a variety of cultural and political settings has generated many lessons, both positive and negative, that are being codified and disseminated to other researchers through workshops such one on Researching Sensitive Issues in Sexuality and Reproductive Health.

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