The Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (PID) is a recently expanded department of the Institute of Tropical Medicine. We work on a wide range of diseases with special attention on pediatric infectious diseases including pneumonia, diarrhea, dengue and malaria. Our research interests include integration of clinical and environmental epidemiology at international, national and local levels.
2024/11/28--NEW
Professor Lay-Myint Yoshida and Associate Professor Michiko Toizumi, in an international collaboration with Professor Kim Mulholland and Professor Stefan Flasche from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and Professor Dang Duc Anh from the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Vietnam, demonstrated that after catch-up vaccination of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) to children under three years of age and 3.5 years after PCV introduction, a two-dose PCV vaccination schedule (1p+1) was not inferior to the WHO-recommended three-dose schedule (2p+1 or 3p+0) in controlling vaccine serotype pneumococcus carriage in Vietnamese children.[Abstract][Nagasaki University: Press release][Nagasaki University: Research Japanese・English]
2021/06/14
Assistant Professor/Research Fellow Positions of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Nagasaki University, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases is recruiting researchers who would like to join and participate in the department’s clinical-epidemiological field work and laboratory research activities in Vietnam and Japan. [Link]
2021/02/02
2nd February 2021 - Prof. Lay-Myint Yoshida was awarded for his achievement and contribution to scientific research and international collaboration by the People's Committee of Khanh Hoa, Vietnam.
2020/10/01
Adewuyi Sunbo Oludare joined the PID. Welcome Sunbo!
2020/06/09
Announcement for Assistant Professor/Research Fellow Positions
Under the AMED (Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development) program, our department is conducting emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases researches in Vietnam. We are currently recruiting researchers who have experience in microbiology or molecular biology or epidemiology to conduct laboratory-based research and/or field epidemiology research activities and participate in our research activities in Japan and Vietnam. [Link]
2019/11/11
Toizumi was awarded Pediatric Medical Research Fund 2019 from The Mother and Child Health Foundation for research titled "Follow-up of Neurological and Sensory Development of Children with Congenital Zika Infection in Vietnam".
