History
2000
April
- Creation of the Kyoto University Public Health department with the first Japanese high-level Public Health Professional Degrees in 13 different fields: 11 departments (Biostatistics, Theoretical Epidemiology, Pharmacoepidemiology, Genomic Medicine, Public Health Management, Healthcare Economics & Quality Management, Medical Ethics, Health Informatics, Environmental Health, Health Promotion and Behavioral Science, International Health) and 2 cooperative classes (environmental ecology and human ecology).
As the training of educators and researchers in these fields was urgent, the Doctoral course was established at the same time.
2001
September
- The University Establishment Council implemented of an external evaluation.
2002
March
- External evaluation by Prof. Robert S. Lawrence (vice president of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health)
2003
April
- Providing an education combining theory and practice while training highly skilled professionals were the main objectives that led to shift towards a specialization of the Graduate School Professional Degree System. The Master’s Course changed to a Professional Degree course.
- The names of the departments changed from “Theoretical Epidemiology” to “Healthcare Epidemiology”, from “Health System Informatics” to “Health Informatics”, from “International Health” to “Global Health and Socio-Epidemiology”.
- Beginning of the new cooperative classes: “Preventive medicine” and endowed course “Epidemiology Research Administration Informatics”.
- Beginning of the “Intellectual Property Management Course” funded by the Special Coordination Funds for the promotion of Science and Technology.
2004
December
- Organization of the 5 years anniversary symposium “Public Health – Health, Treatment and Society; binding people –” in the Shiran Kaikan’s Inamori Hall.
2005
April
- Creation of the 1 year “Master of Clinical Research (MCR)” for physicians and dentists.
December
- Signature of the memorandum of “Zero-ji prevention health promotion project” between the Medical Research Department and the city of Nagahama. The secretariat is based in the Health Informatics department.
2006
April
- Name change from “Genome Epidemiology” to “Informatics Genome Epidemiology”
- Opening of the “Genetic Counseling and Coordinator Unit” funded by the Special Coordination Funds for the promotion of Science and Technology.
- The Social Epidemiology Department is appointed as UNAIDS (United Nations Joint Programme on AID) joint center.
2007
March
- End of the endowed course “Epidemiology Research Administration Informatics”.
- The Genome Epidemiology department was appointed by France’s INSERM as research unit.
May
- Conclusion of the agreement between the Medical Research Department and Nagahama city’s “Zero-ji prevention health promotion project”.
2008
April
- Intellectual Property Management Course was changed into the “Department of Management of Technology and Intellectual Property” and the MCR Course became the “Master Program for Clinical Research”.
- Creation of the “Department of Medical Communication”.
2010
April
- Genetic Counseling and Coordinator Unit was split into 2 departments, respectively the Department of Clinical Research Administration and the Department of Medical Genetics.
- Creation of a MPH-DrPH Course for physicians and dentists holders of a master degree who passed the 1 year professional degree course.
- The departments of Obstetrics, Pediatrics and the School of Public Health were selected by Ministry of the Environment to conduct the “Japan Environment & Child Study” as Kyoto’s Unit Center.
November
- Organization of the 10 years anniversary symposium and publication of the anniversary magazine.
2011
March
April
- Creation of the 1 year MPH Course for people with on the field experience of Public Health.
October
- First entry in the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) as Japanese School of Public Health.
November
- End of the registrations for Nagahama city’s “Zero-ji prevention health promotion project” with more than 10,000 participants.
2012
April
October
- Helped organizing the World Health Summit in Berlin as a M8 Alliance Members (organization made of medical research institutes and universities around the world).
2013
2014
- Double Degree Program for master’s degree was started with Chulalongkorn University College of Public Health Sciences in Thailand and University of Malaya Faculty of Medicine in Malasia. This program gives students the opportunity to obtain two degrees, MPH from Kyoto University School of Public Health and the related degree from another university, within two years or more (The program with University of Malaya Faculty of Medicine ended in FY 2019).
2015
- Professor Shunichi Fukuhara became the principal of the regional meeting of M8 Alliance, which acted as an academic platform for World Health Summit. The keynote theme was “Meeting emerging challenges: toward responsive and resilient health systems”. Approximately six hundred participants from various countries discussed challenges for aging society, precautions against natural disaster and fostering leadership in the next generation.
2015-2018
- Kyoto Global Conference for Rising Public Health Researchers (KGC) was held every December. KGC is the international conference in the field of global health and includes presentations by teaching staffs from KUSPH, early career researchers and students from schools of public health in Europe and Asia or international institutions. We have organized the following themes.
2015 KGC―“Aging Society and Community Health”
2016 KGC―“Universal Health Coverage and Health Economics”
2017 KGC―“Interdisciplinary approach and collaboration for Health for All”
2018 KGC―“Implementation Research and Science for Health for All”
2016
- Participated in the activities of “Kyoto University Japan Gateway”, which supports the creation of super-global universities, in the field of public health, and started a Super Global Course (SGC) at Kyoto University School of Public Health.
2017
- Double Degree Program for master’s degree was started with National Taiwan University College of Public Health in Taiwan.
2018
- Clinical Biostatistics Course was initiated with the support of Biostatistician Development and Support Initiative by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED).
2019
- Double Degree Program for master’s degree was started with Mahidol University Faculty of Public Health in Thailand.
Number of graduations per year in the Public Health Department (from 2000 to 2014)
| Year | Number of Master courses in Public Health and Professional Degrees |
Number of Doctoral Courses | Number of students in Medical Doctor Course who graduated and were from the Public Health Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | None | ||
| 2001 | 16（Master courses in Public Health） | ||
| 2002 | 19（Master courses in Public Health） | 0 | |
| 2003 | 29（Master courses in Public Health） | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1（Master courses in Public Health） 20（Professional Degrees） |
6 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1（Master courses in Public Health） 33（Professional Degrees） |
6 | 2 |
| 2006 | 20（Professional Degrees） | 4 | |
| 2007 | 32（Professional Degrees） | 4 | 2 |
| 2008 | 32（Professional Degrees） | 2 | 1 |
| 2009 | 38（Professional Degrees） | 9 | 1 |
| 2010 | 28（Professional Degrees） | 5 | 3 |
| 2011 | 28（Professional Degrees） | 6 | 2 |
| 2012 | 28（Professional Degrees） | 5 | 2 |
| 2013 | 26（Professional Degrees） | 6 | 5 |
| 2014 | 28（Professional Degrees） | 11 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 65 | 25 |
＊Post graduate Professional Degrees began in 2003
＊Number of students who were awarded a Master, Professional or Doctoral Degrees