About me
Taka Yamashita, Ph.D., MPH, MA
Professor of Sociology & Gerontology at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Background, Current & Previous Positions, Education, Certificates, & Major Areas of Interests
Curriculum Vitae (Coming soon)
Twitter @dryamataka
Background
Takashi Yamashita (山下貴司), Ph.D., MPH, MA, is a professor of sociology, and a faculty in the Gerontology Ph.D. program and the Center for Aging Studies at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He also has a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health in the School of Medicine, and serves as an affiliate member of the Center for Research on Aging at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). His areas of research are social determinants of health and well-being over the life course, health literacy, wider benefits of lifelong learning, gerontology education and social statistics education. He has been actively conducting social science research since 2010. To date, he has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and written 15 technical reports.
His teaching interests include social gerontology, medical sociology and introductory/advanced quantitative research methods in social science both at the undergraduate- and graduate-levels. He has been teaching in post-secondary education institutions since 2012.
He is currently a co-principal investigator of the 3-year research project (2017 - present) funded by the Institute of Education Science of the U.S. Department of Education. He is also a UMBC Innovation Fellow and a principal investigator of the 2-year research project (2019 - 2021) funded by the Hrabowski Innovation Fund at UMBC. He serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Gerontology Social Science.
Current & Previous positions
2017-2022: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration and Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
2017-Present: Faculty, Doctoral Program in Gerontology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 2017-2017: Associate Research Scientist, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration and Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD 2012-2017: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 2011-2012: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Oxford, OH 2010-2011: Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Oxford, OH 2007-2010: Doctoral Associate, Department of Sociology & Gerontology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 2005-2007: Graduate Assistant, Fisher Institute for Wellness & Gerontology, Ball State University, IN