Our Program
NOMURA Kyoko
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Professor, Chair, Department of Environmental Health Science and Public Health, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine
NOMURA Kyoko, MD, MPH, Ph.D, is Professor, Chair, Department of Environmental Health Science and Public Health, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine. In 1993, she graduated from School of Medicine, Teikyo Univercity and passed national board exam and registered as a medical doctor(Medical Registration# 358285).
She started the initial training at Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine. After working at Teikyo University Ichihara hospital and several other hospitals as a physician, she obtained a Fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, FJSIM (Registered FJSIM# 4704) in 1999. She then entered doctoral program, School of Medicine, Teikyo University. During PhD course, she completed Master course at Harvard School of Public Health and obtained a Master of Public Health (Quantitative methods) in 2002. She completed doctoral program and obtained Ph.D. in 2003. In the same year, she obtained a Fellow of Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine (Registered# 895) and became assistant at department of Hygiene and Public Health, School of Medicine, Teikyo University. In 2012, she was promoted to associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, Teikyo University. In 2013, she served as Initial Director of Teikyo University Support Center for Women Physicians and Researchers. In 2014, she was promoted to associate Professor of department of Hygiene and Public Health, School of Medicine, Teikyo University. In August of 2017, she became chair professor of department of Environmental Health Science and Public Health, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine.
Other titles: Industrial physician/The Medical Advisor in industrial Health, Social medicine specialist/Medical Advisor, Certified Senior Epidemiologist of Japan Epidemiological Association, Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine Expert, Japanese Society of Public Health Expert
Expectations for the Program
Japan, which used to be an economically affluent country, is now facing unprecedented difficulties such as a declining population, aging society with fewer children, economic stagnation, the arrival of emerging infectious diseases such as novel corona virus infection, global warming, and climate change. The policies that have been put in place to solve these social problems might not have been sufficiently and scientifically verified. For example, in the case of corona virus infection, scientific evidence is needed to determine how much a certain policy will save lives at the cost of economic losses. This is because policies without scientific evidence can sometimes endanger the lives of the socially vulnerable populations including working population, particular occupational cohorts, pregnant women, children, and elderly people. In this program, we hope to adopt more research projects that will lead to social implementation while ensuring scientific verification, and to send out many projects to real world to improve the quality of society, economy, medical care, welfare, environment, and education in Japan. Of course, we, the advisors, will keep pace with you and spare no effort to ensure the smooth progress of your proposed programs. We look forward to working with you.
Related Links
Department of Environmental Health Science and Public Health, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine HP
https://www.med.akita-u.ac.jp/~pbeisei/
https://www.akita-u.ac.jp/honbu/lab/vol_38.html
http://coffeedoctors.jp/news/2976/
