Introduction ofDepartment of international Health
Taro Yamamoto
Dept. of International HealthInstitute of tropical Medicine
Nagasaki UniversityOutline• Organization Chart• Staff of our department• Research activities• Environment and health• Medical ecology– Malaria• Evolution biology• Social responsibility

Organization Chart
Institute of Tropical Medicine

Host and Vector Biology
Microbiology and parasitology

Public Health and Environment

Dept. of Ecological Epidemiology
Dept. of International HealthDept. of Global Health Development Policy Sciences
Dept. of Vector Ecology and Environment

Staff of our department(Total 13)
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Taro Yamamoto (Chair)
Sumihisa Honda (Associate Prof.)
Toshihiko Sunahara (AssistantProf.)
Masahiro Hashizume (AssistantProf.)
Tomoko Abe (Post-doctoral fellow)
Osuke Komazawa (PhD student)
Keiko Akahane (PhD student)
Sengchanh (PhD student) (LaoPDR)
Administartive staff– (Mr. Eguchi, Ms. Sakitani, Ms.
Shiraishi)•Collaborating staff–(Dr. Kondo, Dr. Yamaguchi, Dr.
Ichikawa, Dr. Yano)Self-Introduction•Name: Taro Yamamoto, MD, PhD and PhD.
•Course in charge: International Health and epidemiology•Profile1: Medical doctor trained by emergency medicine and worked in ER,
but since then almost no, if any, actual experience in clinical medicine.
•Profile 2 (overseas experience): Zimbabwe, US and Haiti (preciousexperience there)•Where I have studied so far:–Medical school and post graduate school, Nagasaki university–Post graduate school, The university of Tokyo–Harvard School of public Health(Nagasaki)(Tokyo)(Boston)•Where I have worked so far:–Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University(Nagasaki)–Ministry of Health and Welfare, Zimbabwe(Africa)–School of Public Health, Tokyo University(Kyoto)–Weil Medical School, Cornel university(NYC)–WHO(Manila)–Research institute of Kaposi sarcoma and opportunistic infection, Haiti–Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan(Tokyo)–Again and now, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University(Nagasaki)

Research activities
There are three major units
in our dept.

• Environment andhealth• Climate change• Asian (Yellow) dust

• Medical ecology• Malaria• Evolution biology andmolecular evolution• HIV• HTLV-1• Tuberculosis

Social responsibility• Policy development• Internationalcollaboration through• MOFA• JICA• NGO/NPOon theground and at thenational level

Japan was a poor nation
Photo by UNICEF

Got $6.5 billion aid
from UNICEF for 15ysince 1949

Photo by UNICEF

10 mil people gotemergency relief frominternational NGO (CARE)
for 8y since 1948.
Photo by CARE Japan

Think Locally

Act Globally

Millennium Development Goals(MDGs)
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability8. Develop a global partnership for development

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Evolution biology
and molecular evolution• Adaptation or fitness withphylogeny• Ancient DNA from remains• HIV• HTLV-1• Tuberculosis