Our Faculty
Faculty
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Olukunmi Omobolanle Balogun PhD, MSc
- Junior Associate Professor, Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences
Course: Public Health Nutrition, Maternal and Child Health Email: balogun.olukunmi.ja[at]slcn.ac.jp Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Nutrition, nutritional epidemiology
- Maternal and child nutrition and health outcomes
- Social determinants of maternal and child Health
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Joseph Ping Pui Ching, PhD
- Adjunct Faculty, Division of Environmental Health
Course: Air Quality Model Simulations in Public Health Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Atmospheric Science
- Atmospheric Aerosols
- Air Pollution and Public Health
- Climate Change
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Stuart Gilmour, PhD
- Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Course: Biostatistics I, Biostatistics Practicum I, Mathematical Methods in Public Health, Advanced Biostatistics, Advanced Biostatistics Practicum, Biostatistics Seminar Email: sgilmour[at]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
Course: Health Economics 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, Economics Evaluation in Healthcare Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Health economics and outcome Researches
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- Health policy
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Kota Katanoda, PhD, MS
- Visiting Professor, Division of Epidemiology
- Faculty of the Cooperative Graduate School System
Course: Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Descriptive Epidemiology
- Cancer Statistics
- Tobacco Measures
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Tsuguhiko Kato, MS, MA, PhD
- Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
Course: Organization in Public Health, Health Policy and Management 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, Advanced Topics in Environmental Health, Environmental Epidemiology Email: mhlee[at]slcn.ac.jp Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- PM2.5
- Air pollution
- Climate change
- Geographic information systems
- Environmental epidemiology
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Shoji Nakayama, MD, PhD
- Visiting Professor, Division of Environmental Health
- Faculty of the Cooperative Graduate School System
Course: 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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Nobuo Nishi, MD, PhD, MSc, MBA
- Dean, Graduate School of Public Health
- Professor, Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences
Course: Clinical Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Epidemiology Email: nishi.nobuo.24[at]slcn.ac.jp Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Social Epidemiology
- Social Ecological Model
- System Dynamics
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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[at]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: Clinical Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Introduction to Public Health, Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Introduction to Health Technology Assessment Email: saohde[at]slcn.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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Junko Omori, PhD
- Professor, Graduate School of Nursing Science
Course: Email: omori.junko.em[at]slcn.ac.jp Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Culture and health belief, Attachment to the community, Social inclusion
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Kazunari Onishi, PhD
- Associate Professor, Division of Environmental Health
Course: Environmental Health, Practical measurement in Environmental Health, Environmental Psychology, Environmental Epidemiology Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Environmental epidemiology
- Environmental health assessment
- Climate change and health effect
- Atmospheric measurement and analysis
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Yohei Ono, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Course: Email: ono.yohei.m3[at]slcn.ac.jp Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Statistical Science
- Machine Learning
- Data Visualization
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Kohei Onozaki, MS
- Visiting Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
Course: Health Policy and Management, Organization in Public Health Email: koheiono[at]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, Public Health Research Methods, Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses, Advanced Epidemiology, Advanced Epidemiology Practicum Email: rahman[at]slcn.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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Haruka Sakamoto, MD, PhD, MPH
- Visiting Associate Professor, Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences
Course: Introduction of Clinical Medicine Email: sakamoto.haruka.ah[at]luke.ac.jp Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Global Health
- Health Policy
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Satomi Sato, PhD
- Associate Professor, Division of Health and Behavioral Sciences
Course: Health and Behavioral Sciences, Environmental Psychology, Applied Behavioral Science Email: satomisa[at]slcn.ac.jp Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Behavioral Science
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Taichi Shimazu, MD, PhD
- Visiting Professor, Division of Epidemiology
- Faculty of the Cooperative Graduate School System
Course: Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Implementation Science
- Epidemiology
- Cancer Prevention
- Tobacco Control in the Workplace
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Emilie Louise Akiko Matsumoto-Takahashi, PhD
- Junior Associate Professor, Division of Global Health Sciences
Course: Medical Anthropology Email: etakahashi[at]slcn.ac.jp Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Medical anthropology
- Malariology
- Spatial epidemiology using earth observation satellite data
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Mari Tsuruwaka, PhD
- Professor, Division of Health and Behavioral Sciences
- Professor, Graduate School of Nursing Science
Course: Medical Ethics Email: tsuruwaka[at]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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Zoie S.Y. Wong, PhD
- Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Course: Health Informatics and Decision Making, Infectious Disease Modeling, Doctoral Seminar Email: zoiewong[at]slcn.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
- Professor, Division of Global Health Sciences
Course: Global Health Email: yasuoka[at]slcn.ac.jp Research and Professional Interests/Activities
- Global Health, Behavioral Science