Professor Tetsuji Yamada is a Health Economist, and former Department Chair in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University, New Jersey; Research Associate for the Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University. He also was a Research Scholar at Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Hamamatsu University in Japan, and a Researcher with the ASIA Health Policy Program, Stanford University.

In the past, Dr. Yamada has served for many other positions, including health economist at the International Leadership Center on Longevity and Society in New York, representative of the Japan Economic Federation, research associate of the NBER, health economics adviser of the WHO, research associate of the Center for the Pacific Basin of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, associate professor of Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

His research fields emphasize health economics-related studies, including health behaviors, health disparity, demand for healthcare services and outcomes, elderly care, preventive care, accessibility of healthcare services, effectiveness of government healthcare policy, alcohol and drug abuse, hospital cost analysis, and pharmaceutical policies.

Dr. Yamada has published more than 100 research papers, been internationally active in presenting research papers at various professional conferences, and serve as editors, associate editors, referees and reviewers for various professional journals, books, and research funding organizations.