Job title：
Associate Professor
Other affiliations (6)：
University of Washington
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Scientific Council
Global Nutrition Report (GNR)
Independent Expert Group
SEEK Development
Consultant
Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI)
Senior Fellow
The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research
Senior Fellow
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Japan Office
Consultant
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Research keywords (8)：
Global Health Policy
, Global Health Diplomacy
, Global Burden of Disease (GBD)
, Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Prevention and Control
, Nutrition Science and Policy
, Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health EDRM)
, Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPR)
Research theme for competitive and other funds (18)：
2024 - 2027 Natural Disasters and Health Crisis Management in the Reiwa Era: Advancing Research with a Focus on WHO Research Methodology Guidance
2024 - 2027 Reevaluation and Utilization of Disease Burden in Japan: Prefectural Analysis in the Post-COVID-19 Era and Challenges to New Methodologies
2022 - 2026 Empirical Burden of Disease Study for Building a New Health System
2021 - 2025 Research on cancer risk assessment and cancer prevention guideline recommendations based on scientific evidence
2023 - 2024 Research Towards Establishing a Multilayered Infectious Disease Surveillance System in the Era of Medical Digital Transformation
2021 - 2024 Utilization and Empirical Analysis of Disease Burden for Health Care Challenges in the With/Post-COVID-19 Era
2020 - 2023 Calculation of Happy Life Expectancy and Its Application to Environmental and Disaster-Related Health Risk Assessment
2019 - 2022 Empirical research on health policy issues in Japan based on comprehensive burden of disease analysis
2018 - 2021 Development of a Method for Evaluating Health System Performance by Prefecture in Japan
2018 - 2021 Research on cancer risk assessment and recommendations for prevention guidelines through active use of national and international research collaboration infrastructure
2018 - 2021 A comprehensive study on comparative risk assessment of disease burden in Japan and its application to health policy in Japan
2019 - 2020 Exposure to Air Pollution in Japan and Its Impact on Health and Wellbeing
2019 - 2020 Research on nutritional dietary habits using DALYs as an indicator for extending healthy life expectancy
2018 - 2020 A Pursuit of Healthcare Promoting Well-being in Fukushima: Towards the full recovery from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident
2018 - 2020 Medium- and Long-Term Health Impact Assessment of the Nepal Earthquake: Towards a Disaster-Resilient Health Care System
2017 - 2019 Research on Establishing an Effective Presence of Japan at the World Health Assembly, etc.
2016 - 2019 Comprehensive Study of Disease Burden and Its Utilization by Prefecture in Japan
2016 - 2018 Assessment of the Mid- to Long-term Health Effects of Japan's 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Toward disaster-resilient health care systems
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Papers (219)：
GBD 2021 Diseases and Injuries Collaborators. Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet. 2024
GBD 2021 Causes of Death Collaborators. Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet. 2024
GBD 2021 Fertility and Forecasting Collaborators. Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950-2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet. 2024
GBD 2021 Tuberculosis Collaborators. Global, regional, and national age-specific progress towards the 2020 milestones of the WHO End TB Strategy: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2024
GBD 2021 Demographics Collaborators. Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950-2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet. 2024
2013 - 2019 Imperial College London School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2011 - 2013 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine Department of Global Health Policy
2007 - 2011 The University of Tokyo Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
2001 - 2007 Seiko Gakuin Junior & Senior High School
Professional career (3)：
PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Imperial College London)
MSc in Health Science (The University of Tokyo)
BSc in Pharmacy (The University of Tokyo)
Work history (19)：
2024/01 - 現在 Data for Social Transformation Researcher
2024/01 - 現在 Osaka University Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER) Collaborative Researcher
2023/05 - 現在 Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI) Senior Fellow
2022/11 - 現在 University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Scientific Council
2021/10 - 現在 The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research Senior Fellow
2021/06 - 現在 National Institute of Infectious Diseases Infectious Disease Surveillance Center Visiting Researcher
2021/04 - 現在 World Health Organization (WHO) Centre for Health Development Research Advisor
2021/04 - 現在 Shizuoka Graduate University of Public Health Visiting Researcher
2021/04 - 現在 Global Nutrition Report Independent Expert Group
2019/10 - 現在 Keio University School of Medicine, Department of Health Policy and Management Associate Professor
2019/01 - 現在 SEEK Development Consultant
2018/11 - 現在 Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital Research Center for Community Health Researcher
2018/04 - 現在 National Cancer Center Epidemiology and Prevention Group, Center for Public Health Sciences Visiting Researcher
2018/03 - 現在 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Japan Office Consultant
2016/12 - 現在 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine Assistant Professor
2017/07 - 2020/03 National Center for Global Health and Medicine Institute for Global Health Policy Research (iGHP) Researcher
2014/07 - 2014/09 World Health Organization (WHO) Policy, Practice and Evaluation Unit, Emergency Risk Management and Humanitarian Response Department Intern
2013/04 - 2013/09 The University of Tokyo Fellow
2012/08 - 2012/10 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Tajikistan Office Disaster Risk Management Programme Intern
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Committee career (8)：
2023/12 - 現在 Office of Global Health Cooperation, International Affairs Division, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Investigative Commission for Policies Japan Should Implement to Achieve Universal Health Coverage Worldwide
2023/12 - 現在 Japan Center For International Exchange Executive Committee on Global Health and Human Security
2022/08 - 現在 Japan Center for International Exchange 2023 G7 Global Health Task Force
2021/11 - 現在 World Health Organization (WHO) WHO Thematic Platform for Health EDRM Research Network (TPRN)
2020/02 - 現在 言論NPO 地球規模課題10分野「グローバルヘルス」分野評価委員
2021/04 - 2022/03 Japan Center for International Exchange Global Health Governance Study Group
2019/10 - 2021/03 Japan Center for International Exchange Special Commission on Japan's Strategy on Development Assistance for Health
2015/08 - 2017/04 Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Advisory Panel for Global Health
