Biography
Hidenori Yamatani earned his PhD, MSW, and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.
As the Pitt School of Social Work’s associate dean for research, Yamatani oversees sponsored research, training, and service projects; provides proposal-development assistance for external funding; promotes interdisciplinary research projects; enhances scholarly research and activities; and facilitates faculty mentoring. A full professor, his research specialties include organizational development, strategic planning, program optimization and evaluation, and community research. Yamatani directs Pitt’s Community Enhancement Research Network (CERN), which promotes community development through collaborative applied social work research. CERN includes faculty from the social work school and other Pitt units as well as non-Pitt researchers and community stakeholders.
Selected Funded Grants
- Co-investigators: Larry Davis, Ph.D. and Ralph Bangs, PhD
Evaluation of Allegheny County Jail Collaborative: Cost Benefit Analysis and Assessment of Recidivism by Race: the Human Service Integration Fund (which includes over dozen major philanthropic foundations of Greater Pittsburgh region). - Co- investigator: Rafael Engel, Ph.D. The Faith Factor in Effective Models of Multi-Sector Collaboration: Pew Foundation.
- Co-investigator: Michelle Zorich, MSW, M. Div. Organizational Performance Optimization and Evaluation: Professional Family Care Services, Inc.
- Principal Investigator: Ralph Bangs, Race and Income Effects of Alternative Designs for the Pittsburgh Promise, Funder: The Falk Foundation
Selected Publications
Yamatani, H., Engel, R. & Solveig, S. (2009). Child Welfare Worker Caseload: What’s Just Right?
Social Work (in press)
Yamatani, H. (2009). Overview Report of Allegheny County Jail Collaborative Evaluation Findings. National Institute of Corrections, US Department of Justice.
Yamatani, H. & Solveig, S. (2009). Rescuing US Criminal Justice System: An Efficacy of Collaborative Social Service System (under review by Social Work).