上田 路子（政治経済学術院・准教授）
（1）専門領域
自殺予防学、公衆衛生学、社会疫学、アメリカ政治、選挙制度
（2）経歴と自己紹介
Michiko Ueda is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University. Prior to joining Waseda, she was a research assistant professor at Syracuse University and an assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology and a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo, Waseda University, and the Economic and Social Research Institute in the Cabinet Office. Although she is a political scientist by training, she is also interested in suicide prevention, and has published articles in the areas of suicide prevention, public health, and political science. Her current research interests include social media and mental health, and the prevention of railway suicide. She has received the 56th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science as well as the Best Paper Award by the Japanese Association of Electoral Studies and the Jewell-Loewenberg Award by the Legislative Studies section of the American Political Science Association. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006.
（3）主要業績
Ueda M., Mori K. Matsubayashi T. Sawada Y.(2017)
Tweeting celebrity suicides: Users' reaction to prominent suicide deaths on Twitter and subsequent increases in actual suicides.
Social Science and Medicine (in press) ,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.06.032
Tetsuya Matsubayashi Michiko Ueda.2016
“Suicides and Accidents on Birthdays: Evidence from Japan.”
Social Science & Medicine ,159: 61-72.
Tetsuya Matsubayashi Michiko Ueda.2015
“Relative Age in School and Suicide among Young Individuals in Japan: A Regression Discontinuity Approach.”
PLOS ONE.
Michiko Ueda., Yasuyuki Sawada, and Tetsuya Matsubayashi. 2015.
“The Effectiveness of Installing Physical Barriers for Preventing Railway Suicides and Accidents: Evidence from Japan.”
Journal of Affective Disorders ,178: 1-4.
澤田康幸・上田路子・松林哲也 2013. 『自殺のない社会へ』 有斐閣（第56回日経・図書文化賞受賞）
Book manuscript, “Toward Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention: Perspectives from Economics and Political Science.”
(with Yasuyuki Sawada and Tetsuya Matsubashi), Yuhikaku (2013); an updated English version is forthcoming from Springer in 2017
(“Economic Analysis of Suicide Prevention: Towards Evidence-Based Policymaking”).