Peishan Yang
Peishan Yang
Professor
Biography
Dr. Peishan Yang is a professor in the Department of Social Work at the National Taiwan University. She has served as the Director of the Research Ethics Center at NTU since 2021, and previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of the NTU Social Work Review from 2022 to January 2026.
She received her BA degree from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at NTU, and then got both her MSW and Ph.D. degrees at Columbia University, School of Social Work. Before she returned to Taiwan and started teaching at NTUSW in 1997, Dr. Yang had worked for over seven years as a Certified Social Worker at Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged in the Bronx, whose current name is the New Jewish Home. Dr. Yang contributed heavily to NTUSW’s initial international practicum by building connections and practicum infrastructures with the renowned Geriatric organization in New York, USA.
Dr. Yang has specialized in gerontology since her early days in social work. Her research topics include digital aging, productive aging, care and work, dementia care, Taiwan Centenarian Study, long term care, and integrated body-mind-spirit health. She also sits in many government committees on senior social welfare or long term care. Dr. Yang has been known for her many innovations for the elderly welfare and services. She co-led a multi-disciplinary research team funded by the National Science and Technology Council, which later became a spin-off company named JUBO in 2018.
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