Elena Yu, Ph.D. Awards & Grants

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Honors, Fellowships, and Awards

	2000	Most Outstanding Alumna Award for Community Service, Cebu Eastern College (formerly called Cebu Chinese High School), Philippines
	1996-97	Recipient of the National Institute on Aging Post-doctoral Traineeship on the Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
	1996	Recipient of the Award for the Most Outstanding Faculty in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, California
	1995	The Golden Apple Best Teaching Award, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, California.
	1995	Vice President's Quest for The Best Faculty Award, San Diego State University, California.
	1995	Special Award for Services to the Filipino Community from Project Kalusugan, Inc.
	1993-95	Recipient of the Shannon Award from the National Institutes of Health.
	1992	Member of the Second Delegation of American Sociologists which visited China in June and July under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Scholarly Communication with the P.R.C. and funded by the Ford Foundation.
	1991	Elected to Phi Beta Delta Honor Society.
	1989	Elected to Phi Tau Phi International Honor Society.
	1988-89	John Nuveen Center for International Affairs Award for Outstanding Volunteer Work with the International Scholars and Visiting Faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
	1987	Listed in The World's Who's Who of Women, ninth edition. London: International Biographic Centre.
	1985	Gerontological Society of America Fellowship Award.
	1984	Appreciation Award from Yonsei University College of Medicine for Contribution to the Kwangha Psychiatric Epidemiological Study.
	1981-83	National Health Services Research Fellowship Award, National Institute of Mental Health.
	1977-78	Listed in American Men and Women of Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
	1973-74	Arthur Schmidt Dissertation Fellowship Award.
	1968-72	Social Science Training and Research Laboratory Fellowship recipient, University of Notre Dame.
	1968	Graduated summa cum laude in Economics, University of San Carlos, Philippines.
	1964-68	Recipient of University Scholarship, University of San Carlos, Philippines.

Grants Received

Recipient of the Shannon Award from the National Institute of Health, for research on caregiving.

Co-P.I. of a grant from the National Institute on Aging, entitled: The Incidence and Course of Dementia in Shanghai.

P.I. of a grant from the National Institute on Aging, entitled: "The Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia in China."

P.I. of Developmental Research in Cancer Control among Asian Americans, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes for Health.

Co-P.I. of a pilot grant from the MacArthur Foundation to supplement a contract from the City of Chicago Department on Aging and Disability for a Needs Assessment Survey of 12 Ethnic Groups in Chicago.

Co-P.I. of a pilot grant from the Chicago Community Trust to supplement a contract from the City of Chicago Department on Aging and Disability for a Needs Assessment Survey of 12 Ethnic Groups in Chicago.

Co-P.I. of a pilot grant from the Retirement Research Foundation to supplement a contract from Chicago Department on Aging and Disability for a Needs Assessment Survey of 12 Ethnic Groups in Chicago.

P.I. of a contract from the City of Chicago Department on Aging and Disability to conduct an Ethnic Elderly Needs Assessment Survey in Chicago. The sample includes Greeks, Lithuanians, Polish, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Ethnic Chinese from Indo-China.

Co-Principal Investigator of a Minority Aging Developmental Grant funded by the National Institute on Aging.

Contract with Illinois State Board of Education. Secondary analysis of state education data.

Co-Principal Investigator for 2 contracts to analyze the 1980 Asian-White Mortality Differentials. National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.

Canada Council Faculty Research, University of Victoria. For preparation of the book, Kinship and Fertility in the Philippines.

Canada Council Faculty Research, University of Victoria. pilot study of widows and widowers in Victoria.