Glenn T. Fujiura, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, DHD
Center Director, Center on Epidemiology and Demography of Disability
Phone 312-413-1977
Fax 312-413-4098
Email gfujiura@uic.edu
Office 246 IIDD
Bio
Glenn Fujiura serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the MS program, and was appointed the interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the College of Applied Health Sciences in 2010. His research includes studies of fiscal structure and demography 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 been the principal investigator of 30 grants totaling over $15 million in federal funding. He has served 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, a member of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation during the Clinton administration, and NIDRR's Long Range Plan Steering Committee. He is currently chairing a joint CDC and AUCD planning committee on issues of health surveillance and intellectual disabilities, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the External Evaluation of NIDRR.