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
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
Fertility and reproductive health; Child survival; Family and gender issues; Health behavior of young adults. Countries: South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Philippines, Nepal, Indonesia, United States
Senior Fellow
808-944-7509
Formulation and implementation of policy and institutions in support of sustainable national and regional development; Development and implementation of disaster management and humanitarian aid programs; Assessment and mitigation of social, cultural and environmental impacts of resource development; Integration of disenfranchised groups into economic development decision making and planning; 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.
Adjunct Fellow, EWC; Assistant Specialist (Economist), College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resource, University of Hawaii-Manoa
808-956-4136
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; the role of cultural values in the perception of environmental, health, and financial risks; the role of feedback in coupled natural systems and responses to environmental and health risks; risk communication; and aging and decision competence.
Senior Fellow
808-944-7248
Land cover/land-use change; forest fragmentation and degradation; spatial information technologies; local peoples and systems for managing forest resources in South and Southeast Asia.
Senior Fellow
808-944-7518
Population, urbanization and development in Asia;
Regional impacts of climate and environmental change and adaptation policies
Adjunct Fellow; Professor, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii
808-944-7218
China's political and economic transformation; China's foreign trade and foreign investment policy; China's Internet and telecommunications policy; China's automobile industry development
Adjunct Fellow; Economist, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
63-2-632-6449
Economic reforms and labor markets; development and inequality; productivity growth
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 economics and human resource; Consequences of government influence on labor markets and economic development; Focus on the impact of government policies on wage differentials, aging, fertility, and education.
Director, Research Program
808-944-7245
health and development, the geography of health and disease, human ecology, the environment, gender, climate change and human health, and the human dimensions of global change, and sustainability science.
Adjunct Sr. Fellow
808-944-7411
Environmental tipping points; Ecological control of mosquito-borne diseases.
Senior Fellow, EWC; Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii
808-944-7455
Economic development and population change; Economics and aging; Intergenerational transfers.
Non-resident Fellow
Comparative and institutional political economy (Varieties of Capitalism), international political economy, international relations, the political economy of development.
Adjunct Fellow; Chief, Population Policy Section, United Nations
917-367-4632
Changing Lifestyles and Emerging Health Threats; Reproductive and Child Health; Fertility and Family Planning; Effects of Air Pollution on Health; Human Impacts on the Environment.
Distinguished Visiting Senior Fellow
808-944-7523
Asian Economic Development, Japan-U.S. relations, Regional Trade Cooperation, Industrialization and Trade Policies of ASEAN Countries, Development Finance, Hawaii’s Economy
Senior Fellow, Economics; Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Political economy of US trade policy; US economic relations with Asia; economies of Japan, China and Korea; North Korea and the prospects for Korean unification.
Senior Fellow, Economics; Carl J Shapiro Professor of International Finance, International Business School, Brandeis University
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; Senior Fellow
808-944-7403
Fertility and family planning; Infant and child mortality; Populations of India, Nepal and Japan; Population aging in Japan; Population change and human evolution.
Senior Fellow
808-944-7402
Fertility and family demography; Migration; Population and the environment; Land cover/land use change.
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
Adjunct Fellow
808-587-6218
Coastal Resource Management in Asia and the Pacific (emphasis on the Philippines); Conservation, ecology, economics and institutional arrangements for marine protected ecosystems in Southeast Asia.
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.
Senior Fellow
808-944-7265
Climate economics and policy; energy and environmental economics; energy and environmental policy in China; trade and the environment