Shim, Eunyoung, Youngtae Cho. (forthcoming) "Widening social disparities in alcohol-attributable deaths among middle-aged Korean men." International Journal of Public Health (corresponding author).
Son, Mia, Youngtae Cho, Juhwan Oh, Ichiro Kawachi, Soonman Kwon, and Junhyuk Lee. 2012. “Social Inequalities in Life Expectancy during the Transition Period of Economic Crisis (1995-2005) in Korea.” International Journal for Equity in Health 11:71 (corresponding author).
Cho, Youngtae, Robert A. Hummer, Sungwon Jung, and Yoonjung Choi. 2011. “Late Childbearing and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Korea.” Maternal and Child Health Journal 15: 431-437.
Cho, Youngtae, Gil-Sung Park, and Samuel Echevarria-Cruz. 2005. "Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics and the Health of Adult Koreans." Social Science & Medicine 60(6): 1285-1297.
Cho, Youngtae, W. Parker Frisbie, Robert A. Hummer, and Richard G. Rogers. 2005. “Nativity, Duration of Residence, and the Health of Hispanic Adults in the United States.” International Migration Review 38(2): 184-211.
Steering Committee Member of Asia-Pacific Regional Global Action and Networks for Equity in Health (AP HealthGAEN), (August 2011 - present)
Consultant for Samsung Electronics Company (Health and Life Section) (March 2012 - present)
Funded by: Samsung Electronics and Statistics Korea
Role: Primary Investigator
Period: September 2012 - June 2013
Title: Impact of Religion on the Marriage Age and Patterns in South Korea
Funded by: Korea National Research Foundation
Role: Primary Investigator
Period: May 2012 - April 2013
Title: Improvement of quality of life and health promotion through tackling health inequality in South Korea
Funded by: Korea National Research Foundation
Role: Co-PI
Period: September 2010 - August 2013
Title: Unequal impact of air pollution on individual health
Funded by: Korea National Research Foundation
Role: Primary Investigator
Period: May 2010 - April 2011
Youngtae Cho is associate professor of health demography at the School of Public Health, Seoul National University. Before joining SNU, he was assistant professor at Utah State University, USA. He achieved his Ph.D. in demography from the University of Texas - Austin, USA. His research interests include social determinants of health and health inequality, health of migrant population, and policy reactions to very low fertility in Korea. Youngtae has served as a member of various advisory committees of the central and local governments in Korea regarding the issues of low fertility and health inequality. He served as a commentator for a social determinants of health project of WHO Western Pacific Regional Office in 2011. Recently, he has expanded his interest in the information and communication technology and its influence on the population processes. Currently, he serves as a director of the Center for Smart Technology and Public Health at Seoul National Unviersity.