Department of Global Health Development Policy Sciences
This Department covers under the 11 th tenure interdisciplinary field of Environmental and Social Medicine related to health services and social welfare problems in developing countries. Interdisciplinary approach includes studies in Social Sciences and Humanities. Further, methods and actual means of international cooperation toward developing countries has been sought to utilize in order to promote inter-departmental linkage for information accumulated with specific analysis and professional response to the public, particularly in the field of infectious diseases diagnosis and control. Under this context, basic and applied research have been carried out in the following prospective themes from the view point of environmental and social aspects for the purpose of promoting assistance to minimize health problems in tropical areas:
Members
- Professor Tsutomu Mizota
- Assistant Professor Kensuke Goto
- Assistant Professor Takeshi Yoda
- Research Assistant Rie Ushitani
- Technician Emi Nakayama
- Visiting Researcher Chizuko Suzuki
- Visiting Researcher Susumu Tanimura
- Postgraduate Student Kazuo Minematsu
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Activities
Area of Research Activities:
- Study and analysis on social (incl. life style, political and economical) background which regulates frequency / areas / accumulation of diseases of the presence of epidemics.
- Study on the effect of individual and social environment toward endemic and epidemics.
- Standardization of human security measures in the field of health services from the view points of nutrition and 3 Es ie.economy, environment and education.
- Study on control of communicable diseases among the regional and international health care programs.
- Study on quantitative and qualitative values of medical and health services under the ODA ie. Official Development Assistance programs by Japanese government.
- Feasibility study on comprehensive information filing and network system for the sake of promoting health and social welfare services in developing countries, by epidemics, by regions, by administrative measures.
- Reformation and coordination of health manpower traning program / system to meet the need of tropical area in connection with Risk Management.
- Comparative studies on the control of emerging infectious diseases in tropical Asia such as West Nile and SARS or Avian Flu.
Specific themes of joint cooperative research designated to the Department in FY 2007 under the scheme of Research Institute for Nationally Joint-Use are listed below. The Technical and Management Committee recommended that interdisciplinary research collaboration should be realized from the viewpoint of middle and long-term range and managed not only by single department but also by the whole Institute as one of the important mandates.
Joint Research projects themes:
a) Control and preventive measures for infectious diseases from the view point of the crisis management.
b) Analysis on socio-environmental factors of the control and prevention of infections using the remote sensing and GIS.
Noted results of research projects have often been integrated and fully utilized in the forms of seminar or symposium for covering valuable themes.
We participated in various kinds of national or international meetings regardless of specific field barrier.
