Faculty and Student Activities and Publications

Faculty Activities

Publication:
2021/August
Professor Stuart Gilmour and Associate Professor Daisuke Yoneoka published research evaluating China’s strategy for controlling COVID-19, in collaboration with colleagues in China.

Article:
Liu Y, Zheng F, Du Z, Li J, Gu J, Jiang M, Yoneoka D, Gilmour S, Hao Y. Evaluation of China’s Hubei control strategy for COVID-19 pandemic: An observational study. BMC Infectious Diseases. 21;820.

Presentation

2021/August
On 20th August prof. Stuart Gilmour participated in a webinar discussing regional progress on COVID-19 vaccination in Japan. He presented an overview of Japan’s COVID-19 policy response and progress on vaccination, and joined a panel discussion on vaccination policy with speakers from China, the UK, Singapore, Australia and Thailand.

Student Activities

2021/September
Ms. Bibha Dhungel, a current student of the DrPH program, presented her project work at the congress as below.

Conference: World Congress of Epidemiology 2021
Presentation type: Oral presentation (on-demand)
Date: 3-6 September
Title: Trends in method-specific suicide among Japanese adolescents in the past four decades
Authors: Bibha Dhungel, Anushka Thapa, Noelia Lucia Martinez-rives, Pilar Martin, Koji Wada, Stuart Gilmour

Mr. Nobuhisa Morimoto, a current student of the MPH program, presented his study at the congress as below. He was also awarded the JEA-IEAWP Travel Award to attend this conference.

Conference: World Congress of Epidemiology 2021
Presentation type: Oral presentation (on-demand)
Date: 3-6 September
Title: Relationship between dietary fiber to carbohydrate ratio and mortality risk in the NHANES
Authors: Nobuhisa Morimoto, Kevin Urayama, Akira Tanaka, Masumi Ai