Research Staff
Senior Fellow
808.944.7476
Infectious disease and behaviorial epidemiology, risk behaviors and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and STDs in Asia and the Pacific; Public policy for HIV/AIDS prevention and care; International collaboration on health issues, children and HIV/AIDS; Modeling of HIV/AIDS transmission and impacts.
Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiatives (AGDI)
808.944.7427
Democratic governance for Human Development in Asia and the Pacific; Civil society engagement, and electoral and parliamentary processes; Cross-border governance, civil service reform, and anti-corruption strategies
Adjunct Senior Fellow
808.944.7426
Measuring and evaluating the health of populations; Infant, child, adult, and senior health and mortality; Immigrant and internal migrant health; Fertility and reproductive health in China; Integrated analysis and advocacy to improve HIV/AIDS responses.
Senior Fellow
808.944.7475
Family and gender issues; Health behavior of adolescents and young adults; Fertility and reproductive health
Senior Fellow
808.944.7509
Disaster management and humanitarian assistance programs; Policy and institutions in support of sustainable national and regional development; Social, cultural and environmental impacts of large-scale resource development; Regional, national and project level assessment of social risks and resilience
Adjunct Fellow, EWC ; Ancker Distinguished Professor for the Humanities, and Director, Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley
808.944.7236
Legal history, international humanitarian law, war crimes trials; human rights.
Senior Fellow
808.944.7321
China’s industrial and innovation policies and their impact on the U.S. economy; Global production networks and R&D internationalization in high-tech industries and Asia’s emerging knowledge economies; Comparative study of intellectual property rights regimes and standardization policies in Asia (especially China) and the United States
Senior Fellow
808.944.7527
Energy policy and planning in Asia; OPEC and the global outlook; Oil and gas market analysis and the downstream petroleum sector.
Senior Fellow
808.944.7254
Cognitive, emotional, and socio-psychological factors affecting human judgment and decision making; Cultural values and the perception of environmental and health risks; Climate change risk perception and communication
Senior Fellow
808.944.7248
Land cover/land-use change in Southeast Asia; Forest fragmentation and degradation; Community-based management of natural resources in South and Southeast Asia
Adjunct Senior Fellow
808.944.7518
Challenges of climate change for Asian cities; Regional impacts of climate and environmental change and adaptation policies; Population, urbanization and development in Asia
Adjunct Fellow
808.944.7218
China’s political and economic transformation; China’s foreign trade and foreign investment policy; China’s automobile industry development and telecom policy
Software & Applications Development Coordinator-NOAA IDEA Center
808-944-7251
Architect and build out the information technology elements of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Integrated Data and Environmental Applications (NOAA IDEA) Center being incubated at the East West Center.
Fellow
808.944.7220
Integrated climate, land, and hydrological systems simulation; Effects of climate variability on water supply, agriculture, and natural resources; Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of natural systems modeling
Senior Fellow
808.944.7435
Globalization and regionalization; Economic relations in the Asia Pacific region; Electricity and telecommunications cooperation in East Asia.
Research Fellow, EWC Washington
202-327-9753
International relations theory, security studies, causes of war, international politics of the Asia-Pacific, and US foreign policy.
Adjunct Fellow, EWC; Associate Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii
808.944.7428
Labor and human resources; Aging and the elderly labor force; Child education and health
Director, Research Program
808.944.7245
Globalization and the geography of health and disease; Climate change and health; Gender, health and development
Senior Fellow, EWC; Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii
808.944.7455
Economic development and population change; Economic consequences of aging; Intergenerational transfers
Non-resident Fellow
China’s capitalist transition and industrial/financial reforms; International and comparative political economy; East Asia security issues
Senior Fellow, Economics; Carl J Shapiro Professor of International Finance, International Business School, Brandeis University
Trade, finance and international economic integration; Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC); East Asian/Pacific Rim economies
Senior Fellow, Economics; Professor, Economics, SAIS Johns Hopkins, Bologna, Italy
Economic development in Asia and ASEAN; International economic integration; Asia Pacific regionalism
Adjunct Senior Fellow; Visiting Professor, Khon Kaen University
66-43-202-366
Upland development in Vietnam; Environmental perception; Sustainable land use; Global environmental policies.
Emeritus Senior Fellow, Population and Health Studies
808.944.7403
Populations of Japan, China, India, Nepal; Below-replacement fertility; Fertility and family planning, and infant and child mortality
Senior Fellow and Supervisor of POSCO Fellowship Program
808.944.7244
Northeast Asian political and security issues
Fellow
808.944.7249
Environmental health impacts of energy use; Environmental statistics and reporting; Science and informed decision making
Director, NOAA Integrated Data and Environmental Applications Center
808-944-7253
Climate assessment and forecast applications; Environmental science, assessment and public policy; Societal applications of climate and global change research; Ocean and coastal resource management; Science for sustainable development.
Adjunct Senior Fellow; President, Global Environment and Energy in the 21st Century
808-944-7456
India-Pakistan Cooperation in Environment and Energy; Nuclear nonproliferation issues: Water and security in South Asia; Energy and global climate change.
Adjunct Fellow, EWC ; Sr Fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Asia-Pacific international relations, particularly regional security relations. Japanese security planning; theories of international politics and security; Japan's domestic politics; U.S. policy toward Asia Pacific
Senior Adjunct Fellow; Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i.
808-944-7343
International and intercultural education, Cultural policy; Ethnicity and nationalism; World War II in Asia Pacific; Pacific Islands studies.
Adjunct Fellow
808-944-7324
Chinese culture and identity; The globalization of Chinese cuisine; Politics of national identity in cultural policies.
Senior Fellow
808-944-7521
Energy economics, energy demand and supply assessment, and energy studies in the Asia-Pacific region with special emphasis on oil, gas and petroleum refining issues; Oil and gas market analysis; China energy studies, Impact of economic development on fossil energy demand.
Adjunct Senior Fellow
808-944-7265
Climate economics and policy; energy and environmental economics; energy and environmental policy in China; trade and the environment