Our Faculty

Faculty

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  Kiyomi Asahara, PHN, RN, PhD

  • Professor, Division of Global Health Sciences
  • Dean, Graduate school of Nursing Science

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  Email:	asahara@slcn.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Ethics and ethics education in public health nursing
  • Community assessment strategies
  • Caring for mother and child
  • Radiological education in public health nursing
  • Practical radiological protection culture

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  Stuart Gilmour, PhD

  • Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

  Course:	Biostatistics I, Biostatistics Practicum I, Survival Analysis, Advanced Biostatistics, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Advanced Biostatistics Practicum, Mathematical Methods for Public Health
  Email:	sgilmour@slcn.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Quantitative health systems assessment
  • Statistics, simulation, modeling, epidemiology, public health

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  Eri Hoshino, MPA, PhD

  • Visiting Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management

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  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Childhood rare diseases
  • Biliary atresia
  • Economic evaluation of disease

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  Ataru Igarashi, PhD

  • Adjunct Faculty, Division of Health Policy and Management

  Course:	Pharmaco-epidemiology and Pharmaco-economics, Health Economics, Economics Evaluation in Healthcare

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Pharmacoeconomics
  • Health economics and outcome Researches
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Health policy

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  Tsuguhiko Kato, MS, MA, PhD

  • Visiting Associate Professor, Division of Health and Behavioral Sciences

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  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Behavioral science
  • Maternal and child health
  • Social epidemiology

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  Mihye Lee, ScD

  • Associate Professor, Division of Environmental Health

  Course:	Environmental Health, Environmental Epidemiology
  Email:	mhlee@luke.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • PM2.5
  • Air pollution
  • Climate change
  • Geographic information systems
  • Environmental epidemiology

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  Katharina da Silva Lopes, PhD, MSc, MPH

  • Junior Associate Professor, Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences

  Course:	Public Health Nutrition, Maternal and Child Health
  Email:	lopes@slcn.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Public health nutrition
  • Maternal and child health
  • Non-communicable disease prevention
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis

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  Shoji Nakayama, MD, PhD

  • Visiting Professor, Division of Environmental Health

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  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Exposure assessment
  • Contaminants of emerging concern
  • Environmental Health
  • Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS)
  • Exposome
  • Exposure science

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  Erika Ota, RNM, MHS, PhD

  • Professor, Division of Global Health Sciences
  • Professor, Graduate School of Nursing Science

  Course:	Maternal and Child Health, Public Health Nutrition
  Email:	ota@slcn.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Maternal and child health, midwifery
  • Global health policy, global health nursing
  • Nutritional epidemiology
  • EBM/systematic review/meta-analysis

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  Sachiko Ohde, PhD, EdM

  • Professor, Division of Epidemiology

  Course:	Epidemiology Practicum, Clinical Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Introduction to Public Health, Introduction to Health Technology Assessment
  Email:	saohde@luke.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Testing characteristics (e.g. HbA1c, eGFR and blood pressure)
  • Optimal interval for screening strategies in healthy individuals and patient monitoring
  • Generating prediction rules and diagnostic tools utilizing clinical data

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  Norio Ohmagari, MD, MSc, PhD

  • Adjunct Faculty, Division of Global Health Sciences

  Course:	Global Infectious Diseases

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Infectious Diseases Control
  • Global Infectious Diseases

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  Kazunari Onishi, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Division of Environmental Health

  Course:	Environmental Health, Environmental Epidemiology
  Email:	kaznaly@slcn.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Environmental epidemiology
  • Environmental health assessment
  • Climate change and health effect
  • Atmospheric measurement and analysis

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  Kohei Onozaki, MS

  • Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management

  Course:	Health Policy and Management, Hospital Administration
  Email:	koheiono@slcn.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Health Policy
  • Sustainability of Health Systems
  • Healthcare Industry
  • Leadership Development and Human Resource Management

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  Mahbubur Rahman, MD, PhD, MPH

  • Professor, Division of Epidemiology

  Course:	Epidemiological Methods, Epidemiology Practicum, Advanced Epidemiology, Advanced Epidemiology Practicum, Meta-analysis in Clinical medicines and Public Health, Survey Research in Public Health
  Email:	rahman@luke.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Cancer epidemiology and prevention
  • Obesity epidemiology and awareness
  • Vaccine epidemiology
  • Bone health
  • Meta-analysis, decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis

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  Satomi Sato, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Division of Health and Behavioral Sciences

  Course:	Health and Behavioral Sciences
  Email:	satomisa@slcn.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Behavioral Science

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  Koyu Suzuki, MD, PhD

  • Adjunct Faculty, Interdisciplinary Sciences

  Course:	Introduction to Medicine

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Molecular Epidemiology
  • Pathology

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  BT Slingsby, MD, PhD, MPH

  • Visiting Professor, Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences

  Course:	Healthcare Innovation

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Pharmaceutical R&D & Investment
  • EBM & Clinical Epidemiology
  • Global Health & Access to Medicines

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  Emilie Louise Akiko Matsumoto-Takahashi, PhD

  • Junior Associate Professor, Division of Health and Behavioral Sciences

  Course:	Medical Anthropology

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Medical anthropology
  • Malariology
  • Spatial epidemiology using earth observation satellite data

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  Osamu Takahashi, MD, PhD, MPH

  • Dean, Graduate School of Public Health
  • Professor, Division of Epidemiology

  Course:	Epidemiology Practicum, Clinical Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Survey Research in Public Health, Meta-analysis in Clinical medicines and Public Health
  Email:	otakahas@luke.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine
  • Chronic disease screening and monitoring
  • Hospital quality improvement
  • Propensity score analysis
  • Meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis

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  Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, PhD, MPH

  • Visiting Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management

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  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Health policy
  • Health economics
  • Health services research

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  Mari Tsuruwaka, PhD

  • Professor, Division of Health and Behavioral Sciences
  • Professor, Graduate School of Nursing Science

  Course:	Medical Ethics, Public Health Ethics
  Email:	tsuruwaka@slcn.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Advance care planning
  • Applicability of advance medical directives in Japan
  • Bioethics education program
  • Care for former Hansen's Disease patients in Japan and Taiwan

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  Kevin Urayama, PhD, MPH

  • Professor, Division of Epidemiology

  Course:	Molecular Epidemiology, MPH Seminar
  Email:	kevura@luke.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Molecular epidemiology in cancer
  • Childhood cancer epidemiology
  • Genome-wide association study
  • Metabolomics in chronic diseases
  • Gene-environment interactions in disease risk
  • Strategies in Academic Writing

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  Zoie S.Y. Wong, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

  Course:	Health Informatics and Decision-making
  Email:	zoiewong@luke.ac.jp

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Health informatics
  • Infectious disease modelling
  • Patient safety informatics
  • Healthcare system simulation and statistical model
  • Infectious Disease Modeling

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  Junko Yasuoka, DSc, MPH

  • Visiting Professor, Division of Global Health Sciences

  Course:	Global Health

  Research and Professional Interests/Activities

  • Global Health, Behavioral Science