Kyoto University School of Public Health

Departments・Courses

医療統計学

Biostatistics

  • Professor: Tosiya Sato
  • We are looking for students interested in biology and medicine, good with mathematics and statistics, who are interested in a statistics approach.

 

 

教授: 山本　洋介

Healthcare Epidemiology

  • Professor：Yosuke Yamamoto, MD, PhD
  • Visualizing various health conditions to solve medical and social problems

 

 

教授: 川上　浩司

Pharmacoepidemiology (Professional Degree Course / Latter Doctral Course)

  • Professor: Koji Kawakami
  • Conducting a variety of research rooted in the questions from the industries, the researchers and students from diverse backgrounds in our laboratory area very unique group.

 

 

教授: 松田　文彦

Genome Epidemiology

  • Professor: Fumihiko Matsuda
  • Analysis of disease using the information written in the genome, in the post-genome projects, is one of the most important issues.

 

 

プログラム・ディレクター: 福原　俊一

Master Program for Clinical Research（MCR）

  • Program director: Shunichi Fukuhara
  • Medical research should promote clinical research, at the same time as promoting life science research.

 

 

今中雄一教授

Healthcare Economics and Quality Management

  • Professor: Yuichi Imanaka
  • ”Healthcare quality and economic efficiency
    From problem-solving to innovative creation

 

 

Professor: Yusuke Inoue

Healthcare Ethics

  • Professor: Yusuke Inoue
  • Ethics of the public where diverse lives gather
    Considering consensus and norms regarding healthcare, science, and policies

 

 

Professor: (Vacant)

Medical Genetics (Genetic Counsellor Course)

  • Professor: (Vacant)
  • Beginning with a personalize healthcare based on pharmacogenetics, and healthcare using genomic and genetic information, we train talent with a high level of specialized knowledge and technology, as well as communication skills in order to become the interface between understanding the patients and families and providing them with new healthcare treatment.

 

 

Health Informatics

  • Professor: Takeo Nakayama
  • When facing life, aging, disease and death, what’s the kind of information” and “communication” that can comfort people.

 

 

准教授: 岩隈 美穂

Medical Communication

  • Associate professor: Miho Iwakuma
  • If people are involved, there will be communication. We conduct research to understand healthcare and medicine from a communication point.

 

 

Management of Technology and Intellectual Property

  • Professor: Chikako Saotome
  • We are looking to foster future intellectual property directors who utilized the life sciences research results in society.

 

 

Health and Environmental Sciences

  • Professor: Hiroshi Nishiura
  • We excel into infectious disease epidemiology and theoretical epidemiology. We would like to welcome anyone who would like to be expert of data analysis in the event of an epidemic crisis.

 

 

教授: 古川 壽亮

Health Promotion and Human Behavior

  • Professor: Toshiaki Furukawa, MD, PhD
  • We are waiting for people who want to apply cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and clinical epidemiology (EBM) in their medical practice. Why not research to change the world’s clinical practice together?

 

 

教授: 岩見　拓

Preventive Services

  • Professor: Taku Iwami
  • Department of Preventive Services aim to produce evidence to resolve familiar clinical questions and improve clinical practices in any stage of diseases including health promotion, preventive medicine, and resuscitation against cardiac arrests.

 

 

教授: 岩見　拓

Occupational Medicine

  • Professor: Yu Sakagami
  • Chronic stress is implicated in the development of many diseases. Occupational medicine plays a crucial role in preventing diseases caused by stress and fatigue. We aim to work with researchers from various fields to conduct general research on stress.

 

 

教授:近藤 尚己

Department of Social Epidemiology

  • Professor：Naoki Kondo
  • We study social determinants of health and how to achieve health equity. Social determinants of health at the levels of society and community include income inequality, economic crises, and social capital; and those at individual level include income, educational attainment, occupation, and interpersonal relationships. We have also conduct intervention studies aiming to achieve health equity in the community.

 

教授: 山崎　渉

Ecology with Emphasis in the Environment（Center for Southeast Asian Studies）

  • Professor: Wataru Yamazaki
  • Using an ecological approach, we analyse the correlation of a variety of factors related to infectious diseases caused by individual pathogens

 

 

Field Medicine

  • Professor: Kozo Matsubayashi
  • “Field Medicine” is the research area that attempts to re-capture disease and aging in the context of culture and natural environment