AUCD Experts

Glenn Fujiura, PhD

Center:

IL-Institute on Disability & Human Development, UCEDD/LEND

Contact Information:

312-413-1977

[email protected]

Leadership:

Primary Activity Coordinators:

Research

Discipline Coordinators:

Project/Program/Clinic Contacts:

Director of Graduate Studies, PhD Program in Rehabilitation; Certificate Program in Management and Leadership in the Non-Profit Disability Organization Certificate;
Center on the Epidemiolgy and Demography of Disability;

Discipline(s):

Epidemiology
Disability Studies

AUCD Council Membership:

Council on Research and Evaluation
Multicultural Council

Vita/Bio:

Glenn Fujiura is a Professor of Human Development in the Department of Disability and Human Development, College of Applied Health Sciences, and Director of the College's PhD Program in Rehabilitation Sciences. He has returned full time to DHD after serving as interim Dean and Associate Dean for the College. His research includes studies of the fiscal structure and demographics of the disability service system, on family policy, evaluation of long-term care services, poverty and disability, ethnic and racial issues in disability, and on the statistical surveillance of disability. Dr. Fujiura has received over $6.7 million in external grant support as a principal investigator and $9.5 million as a co-investigator through 2012. Winner of numerous college teaching awards, he has also been active on the national policy scene, serving as Chair of the U.S. Administration on Developmental Disabilities Commissioner's Multicultural Advisory Committee, was a 1999 recipient of the National Rehabilitation Association's Switzer Scholar award, member of the Cultural Diversity Advisory Committee for the National Council on Disability, as a member of the President's Committee on Intellectual Disabilities during the Clinton administration, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the External Evaluation of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Service:

Linked Projects

Center on Emergent Disability

Disablement in the 3rd World: Demography of Living Standards

National Study of Demographic Social and Economic Trends in Disability

Family Needs Assessment

Center on Emergent Disability

Disablement in the 3rd World: Demography of Living Standards

Family Needs Assessment

Disablement in the 3rd World: Demography of Living Standards

Status and Prospects of People with Intellectual Disabilities: An Exploratory Study of 12 Nations

RRTC on Health: Measurement Workgroup Expert Panel