Elena S. H. Yu, Ph. D.

ESHY Chinese Name

  

San Diego State University

SDSU Graduate School of Public Health

 

Faculty Positions & Employment History

  1990-date Full Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, California. Courses taught: Introduction to Epidemiology, Writing Epidemiologic Papers, Methodological Issues in Research on Special Populations, and Ethnicity and Health Seminar, Case-Control Method, Cohort Studies, Grantwriting, and Critical Readings in Epidemiology.
  1986-90 Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago. Taught Asian American Studies, Psychosocial Epidemiology, Advanced Seminar in Depression Research, and Cross-Cultural Studies of Mental Illness.
  1983-90 Research Associate at the Pacific/Asian American Mental Health Research Center, with joint appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago.
  1981-83 Post-doctoral Fellow, Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit, Columbia University, New York City.
  1979-81 Visiting Fellow, Division of Epidemiology and Analysis, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland. Analyzed U.S. infant mortality data for Chinese, compared with Japanese, white, black, and American Indians and Native Alaskans.
  1975-80 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Victoria. Taught Sociology of Health and Medicine, Marriage and the Family, Sociology of the Life Cycle (Sex Roles and Aging), Socialization and Interaction, and Introduction to Sociology.
  1974-75 Assistant Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Modern Chinese Language Languages, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Taught and helped to establish the Junior-Year-in-Taiwan Program.
  1973-74 Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, N.B., Canada. Promoted to Assistant Professor in 1974. Taught Social Psychology, Introductory Statistics, Sociology of Education, and Honors Seminar.
  1970-71 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Fu-jen University, Taiwan. Taught Social Psychology and Research Methods.

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Recent Consulting Experience (1997 - 2000)

  2000 Reviewer, Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
  1998-date Reviewer, American Journal of Public Health.
  1999 Reviewer, National Center for Health Statistics, Minority Health Research Grants Applications authorized by Congress under the Disadvantaged Minority Act.
  1999 Reviewer, Middle East Cancer Consortium, A Scientific Review Group Affiliated with NIH.
  1999 Consultant, ASPH Minority Health Leadership Workshop, sponsored by the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) , October 20, 1999, School of Public Health and Psychiatric Institute, the University of Illinois-at Chicago.
  1997 Consultant to Department of the Army, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, with regards to the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs aimed at strengthening the biomedical/behavioral research infrastructure in the minority scientific community.
  1997 Reviewer for Research on Aging.

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Research Experience (1984 - 2000)

  1999-2000 Analysis of data on smoking among Asian Americans and Cancer Control.
  1992-96 Co-P.I. of a grant from the National Institute on Aging, "The Incidence and Course of Dementia." Principal Investigator: R. Katzman, M.D. The project will provide precise data on the accuracy of clinician's diagnosis, estimates the age-specific incidence of dementia and AD, examines the effect of education, gender, and differential mortality on the prevalence of dementia, and describe the clinical characteristics and course of dementia in Chinese society.
  1991-93 P.I. of a grant from the National Institute on Aging, "The Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia in China." This project continues the analysis of data on the health and aging of a cohort of Chinese elderly, 55 years and older, who were interviewed in 1987-90 as part of a population-based epidemiologic survey of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in China.
  1989-93 P.I. of a grant from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health, entitled "Developmental Research in Cancer Control among Asian Americans." The purpose of this project was to develop a culturally appropriate cancer control instrument in the Chinese and Korean languages and to conduct a population-based community survey in Chicago's Chinatown and Koreantown using the instrument developed from this project.
  1988-89 Co-P.I. on an NIA-funded project of the acculturation, health, nutrition, and psychological well being of Asian Americans (Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans) in Chicago's subsidized housing for the elderly.
  1988-89 P.I. of a contract to assess the service needs of eleven groups of non-English speaking ethnic elderly in Chicago (Polish, Greeks, Lithuanians, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Ethnic Chinese, and Cambodians), funded by McArthur Foundation, The Retirement Research Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust, and the City of Chicago Department on Aging and Disability. The survey questionnaire was published as an example of minimizing misclassification in the assessment of immigration status. See Loue S, Bunce A. The Assessment of Immigration Status in Health Research. Vital and Health Statistics 1999; 2(127): Appendix 10. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/sr2_127.pdf
  1987-90 Co-P.I. on the first phase of a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's Disease among Chinese elderly populations in Shanghai, China.
  1987-89 Analysis of psychiatric epidemiologic data based on 3,000 household interviews in Shanghai using the DIS, conducted in collaboration with the Shanghai Psychiatric Hospital.
  1987-89 Comparative analysis of suicides and homicides between Chinese and white Americans using the 1979-81 U.S. mortality and Census data.
  1986-87 P.I. of a contract from the Illinois State Board of Education to examine and analyze existing data on Asian American education in Illinois. Prepared a report for the State of Illinois Governor's Office on the educational needs and mental health status of Asians in Illinois. The report was intended for the Governor's Office to formulate and guide policies pertaining to the elementary and high school education of Asian Americans.
  1985 As a Gerontological Society of America Post-doctoral Fellow, assisted the University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics in a study of the use of emergency room services by the elderly. The project was funded by the Gerontological Society of America, Retirement Research Foundation, and the Department of Medical Social Work, College of Associated Health Professions, University of Illinois at Chicago's Health Sciences Center.
  1984-85 P.I. of a contract from the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health, to analyze the U.S. death certificate data compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics, 1979- 81, for the purpose of understanding the mortality differentials between Asians and white Americans.
  1984 Analysis of the use of health services and mortality differentials by the Asian/Pacific American elderly using data based on death certificates, the National Health Interview Survey, and the National Ambulatory Medical Care Services Programs managed by the National Center for Health Statistics.

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Services to the University and the Community (1995 - 2000)

  2000-03 Member of Faculty Senate, San Diego State University.
  2000-03 Member of campus-wide Personnel Committee, San Diego State University.
  2000-03 Member of campus-wide Faculty Development Subcommittee, San Diego State University.
  1999-date Member of Steering Committee, Joint Doctoral Program in Epidemiology for San Diego State University and the University of California at San Diego.
  2000-01 GSPH Library Representative, San Diego State University.
  2000-01 Member of Search Committee for Full Professor in Epidemiology, Joint Doctoral Program in Epidemiology for San Diego State University and the University of California at San Diego.
  2000-01 Member of Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Maternal and Child Health, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University.
  1999-2001 Member of Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Epidemiology, Joint Doctoral Program in Epidemiology for San Diego State University and the University of California at San Diego.
  1999-2001 Member of Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University.
  1999-date Member of Planning Committee for Convocation Reception of GSPH Graduates, San Diego State University and the University of California at San Diego.
  1990-00 Member of Scholarship Committee, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University.
  1999 Graduate Teaching Assistant to Drs. Haroute Armenian and Donald R. Hoover, in Epidemiology 340.604: Case-Control Studies, Department of Epidemiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
  1998-99 Student Representative, Academic Standards Committee--a school-wide faculty committee at the School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
  1998-99 Student Representative, Deans for Students' Network Committee--a school-wide faculty committee at the School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
  1998-99 Organizer and Coordinator of a journal club "chat-list" to discuss U.S. minority health issues on the internet (minority@jhsph.edu) at the School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
  1997-98 Member of the March Task Force, National Cancer Institute, which is devoted to addressing issues of community outreach in cancer research and preparing for a nation-wide March to Conquer Cancer, scheduled for September of 1998.
  1995-96 Member, Personnel Committee (for Faculty Promotion and Tenure Review) of the Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University.
  1995-date Member, Board of Directors, Kalusugan, Inc.

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