EDUCATION

• 2009 ~ 2013 | Aging Studies (Gerontology), University of South Florida

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• June 16, 2025- current | Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• February 2025 ~ June 15 2025 | Associate Professor, Global Health and Health Security, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University
• August 2020 ~January 2025 | Assistant Professor, Global Health and Health Security, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University
• March 2018 ~ March 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Ageing Research Institute for Society and Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• June 2015 ~ June 2017 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre for Ageing Research and Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
• August 2014 ~ May 2015 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Basic and Social Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, NY, USA

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• The health and health behaviors of the aging population in the United States
• Sleep health
• Social determinant of health
• Disability and physical performance
• The health and occupational well-being of older workers

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• 2025-2026 Senior Fulbright Research Grant (USD$ 35,000); Project: Utilizing objective sleep measures to study and promote healthy aging; Host: Orfeu M. Buxton, Elizabeth Fenton Susman Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, USA

PUBLICATIONS

Domingo, D. G. C., Chen, T. Y., Cruz, G. T., Mgabhi, P. S., Lim, K. L., Mandiwa, C., Saito Y. (Accepted). Food insecurity and sleep deficiency among older Filipinos: The mediating roles of depressive symptoms and frailty phenotypes. Journal of Global Health. ISSN: 2047-2978; SSCI/SCI

Mandiwa, C., Chen, T. Y., Cruz, G., Vu, C. N., & Saito, Y. (Accepted). The associations of sleep deficiency and frailty with multimorbidity among community-dwelling older adults in the Philippines and Viet Nam. Psychology, Health & Medicine. ISSN: 1354-8506; SSCI/SCI

Chen, T. Y., Lee, S., & Buxton, O. M. (2025). Late-life disability may increase with more frequent insomnia symptoms and sleep medications use over time. Sleep. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsaf098; ISSN: 2352-7218; SCI

Magabhi, P. S., Chen, T. Y., Cruz, G., Vu, C. N., & Saito, Y. (2024). Falls among community-dwelling older Adults in the Philippines and Viet Nam: Results from nationally representative samples. Injury, 111336; doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2024.111336; ISSN: 0020-1383; SCI

Chen, T. Y., Lee, S., Hsu, K-W., Buxton, M. O. (2024). Poor sleep health predicts the onset of a fear of falling among community-dwelling older adults. Sleep Health, 10:137-143. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2023.10.007; ISSN: 2352-7218; SCI

Chen, T. Y., Rajan S. I., & Saito, Y. (2023). Nutritional status predicts injurious falls among community-dwelling older adults: Does sex matter? Journal of Applied Gerontology. doi: 10.1177/07334648231184950; ISSN: 0733-4648; SSCI

Chen, T. Y., Lee, S., & Buxton, O. M. (2022). Multidimensional sleep health is associated with physical frailty in a national sample of Taiwanese community-dwelling older adults: Sex matters. Sleep Health. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2022.05.003. ISSN: 2352-7218; SCI

Cho, E., Chen, T. Y., Cheng, G., & Ho, R. M-H. (2022). Work-family balance self-efficacy and work-family balance during the pandemic: A longitudinal study of working caregivers of older adults. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. doi:10.1037/ocp0000321 ISSN: 1076-8998; SSCI

Chen, T. Y., & Janke, M. C. (2022). Change in leisure participation among older adults after falling. Leisure Sciences. doi: 10.1080/01490400.2018.1536568; ISSN: 0149-0400; SSCI

Chen, T. Y. & Kim, G. Y. (2021). Racial/ethnic differences in the longitudinal effects of fear of falling on falls: Results from the NHATS. Gerontology. ISSN: 0304-324X; SCI

Chen, T. Y., & Saito, Y. (2021). Longitudinal effects of nocturnal insomnia symptom subtypes and nonrestorative sleep on the incidence of depression among community-dwelling older adults: Results from the Health and Retirement Study. Sleep Medicine. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2021.01.003; ISSN: 1389-9457; SCI

Cho, E., Chen, T. Y., & Janke, M. C. (2021). A 2-year longitudinal relationship between work-family conflict and health among older workers: Can gardening help? Journal of Applied Gerontology. doi: 10.1177/0733464820934678; ISSN: 0733-4648; SSCI

Cho, E., & Chen, T. Y. (2020). The bi-directional relationships between effort-reward imbalance and sleep problems among older workers. Sleep Health, 6, 299-305. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2020.01.008; ISSN: 2352-7218

Chen, T. Y., Chan, A., Andersen-Ranberg, K., Herr, M., Fors, S., Jeune, B., Herrmann, F. R., Robine, J-M., Yasutuki, G., Saito, Y., & the 5-COOP group (2020). Prevalence and correlates of falls among centenarians: The results from the Five Country Oldest Old Project (5-COOP). The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Medical Sciences, 75, 974-979; ISSN: 1079-5006; SSCI/SCI

Chen, T. Y., Lee, S., Gray, M., Saito, Y., Chan A., & Buxton, O. M. (2019). Longitudinal relationship between sleep deficiency and pain symptoms among community-dwelling older adults in Japan and Singapore. Sleep, 42, zsy219. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsy219; ISSN: 0161-8105; SCI

Chen, T. Y., Edwards, J. D., & Janke, M. C. (2019). Examination of the psychometric properties of the Geriatric Fear of Falling Measure among community-dwelling older adults in the US. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 38, 791-804. doi: 10.1177/0733464817716969. ISSN: 0733-4648; SSCI

Ang, S., & Chen, T. Y. (2019). Going online to stay connected: Online social participation buffers the relationship between pain and depression. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Social Sciences, 74, 1020-1031. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gby109. ISSN: 1079-5014; SSCI

Cho, E. & Chen, T. Y. (2018). The effects of work-family experiences on health among older workers. Psychology and Aging, 33, 993-1006. doi: 10.1037/pag0000293. ISSN: 0882-7974; SSCI