Toward Equity in Health Care

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Program(September 9, 2025)

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Day 1 (November 28)

13:00-14:00 Tropical Medicine and Health Editorial Board
14:10-17:10 Board Members Meeting
17:30-19:00 Public Lecture

Day 2 (November 29)

08:50-09:00 Opening Ceremony
09:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture    Chair Lay-Myint Yoshida
  "Equity and Vaccines"
Speaker Kim Mulholland (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
9:55-10:00 Break
10:00-11:30 Symposium 1    Chair Lay-Myint Yoshida, Kaja Abbas
  AMED SCARDA-sponsored symposium
  「Dengue and Lassa fever: Vaccines and new countermeasures in development」
  1)Alex R Cook (Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore)
  2)Laura Skrip (Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University)
11:30-11:35 Break
15:50-17:10 Oral Session 1    Chair Reiko Saito
  1)Murasaki Amano (Vietnam Research Station, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University)
  2)Rokusuke Yoshikawa (Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University)
  3)Yasuteru Sakurai (Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University)
  4)Shuichi Nakamura (Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University)
  5)Fabrice Mambu (Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University)
12:35-13:45 Lunch
  Executive Board Meeting
13:45-15:25 Award Ceremony and Award Lectures
15:25-15:35 Break
15:35-16:55 Workshop 1 "The 18th Clinical Case Workshop: Lessons from Tropical Infectious Diseases"
(Concurrently) Chairs Kei Yamamoto, Fukumi Nakamura-Uchiyama
  1)Hirohito Yamamuro (Department of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital)
  2)Ryo Morita (Department of Infectious Diseases, Osaka City General Hospital)
  3)Special Lecture Yasutoshi Kido (Department of Virology and Parasitology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka Metropolitan University)
15:35-16:55 Workshop 2 "Researchers Across Borders: Realities of Research Environments, Systems, and Cultures"
(Concurrently) Chairs Michiko Toizumi, Osamu Kaneko
  1)Miho Usui (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
  2)Moi Meng Ling (Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
  3)Kazuyo Machiyama (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
16:55-17:00 Break
17:00-18:00
(Concurrently)
Poster Session
17:00-18:30
(Concurrently)
J-Trops (Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine Students' Branch) Organized Session
  "Toward Equitable Healthcare: Practical Strategies to Connect Ideals with Reality"
18:30-20:00 Reception Party

Day 3 (November 30)

09:00-10:30 Symposium 2    Chair Kensuke Takahashi
  "Challenges of providing care for NTDs in resource-limited settings"
  1)Takayuki Kotoku (Médecins Sans Frontières)
  2)Yuka Nagata (Médecins Sans Frontières)
  3)Daisuke Imoto (DNDi Japan Office)
  4)Yuya Kondo (NTDs Youth Organization)
10:30-10:35 Break
10:35-12:05 Symposium 3    Chair Kenji Hirayama
  "Planetary Health and risk management"
  1)Takeshi Nagayasu (Nagasaki University)
  2)Masahiro Hashizume (School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
  3)Ayako Yoshida (Center for Animal Disease Control, University of Miyazaki)
  4)Tomoya Saito (Japan Institute for Health Security)
  5)Hiroko Henker (Interfaculty Initiative for Planetary Health, Nagasaki University)
12:05-13:05 Lunch
13:05-14:05 Oral Session 2    Chair Masahiro Hashizume
  1)Su Myat Han (School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University)
  2)Hyolim Kang (School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University)
  3)Le Nguyen Thanh Nhan (Children's Hospital 1)
  4)Mika Saito (Department of Virology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus)
  5)Sarina Yamashita (Department of Vector Ecology and Environment, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University)
14:05-14:10 Break
14:10-15:10 Oral Session 3    Chair Shinichiro Kawazu
  1)Chukwuma Ezenwanne (Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University)
  2)Yuma Asaki (Laboratory of Vaccine and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University)
  3)Yutaro Yamamoto (Laboratory of Vaccine and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University)
  4)Sirin Kunluang (National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine)
  5)Phoyphaylinh Prasayasith (Graduate School of Health Sciences, Niigata University)
15:10-15:15 Break
15:15-16:45 Symposium 3    Chairs Futoshi Hasebe, Le Thi Quynh Mai
  "Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface: Discussion from Research in Vietnam"
  1)Haruka Abe (Vietnam Research Station, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University)
  2)Kei Sato (Division of System Virology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo)
  3)Kumiko Yoshimatsu (Laboratory of Animal Experiment, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University)
  4)Nguyen Le Khanh Hang (National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology)
  5)Thi Nguyen Hoa-Tran (National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology)
  6)Ryan McCorkell (Department of Global Health, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University)
16:45-16:50 Break
16:50-17:00 Closing Ceremony