Yukiko Wagatsuma

Faculty of Medicine

E-mail : ywagats@md.tsukuba.ac.jp
Lab web page : http://www.md.tsukuba.ac.jp/epidemiology/
Forest of Scholars : https://ura.sec.tsukuba.ac.jp/unit-members?kid=40400676
Kakenhi : 40400676

Orcid : 0000-0002-8056-9998

Affiliation : Department of Clinical Trial and Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba

Theme
We continue to be interested in finding effective and appropriate options forinterventions to control health and illness for the most vulnerable population in the world.
Keywordclinical trial, clinical research, global health, disease control

Highlight
Major Scientific Interests of the Groupbiological research, and aims to develop, apply,

Clinical trial and clinical epidemiology have been

advice on statistical methodology for study design

evolved in modern medicine. That helps toand data analysis in the research.

understand the conceptual gaps between structured

Study Programs for Short Stay Students (oneexperience of basic science and the more complex,

week – one trimester)

open-ended problems arising for the care of patients.

1) The Department provides the environment to learnBased on the principals of clinical trials and the use

the principles of clinical epidemiology throughof clinical epidemiology, we tried to provide thepractical implementation of researches.

evidence towards improving the care of the patients.

2) The Department also provides an environment toProjects for Regular Students in Doctoral orpursue research and education in biostatistics.

Master’s Programs

The research in the department is categorized by

1) The members of our research group takemethodology and practice.

challenges on the development and application of

Other Faculty Members

epidemiologic techniques and provide relevant

Professor Masahiko Gosho

evidences for diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

Associate Professor Kazushi Maruo2) Biostatistics is applied statistics for medical andVisiting Professor Steven Hawks

Applications and Prospects●The scope of research has much diversified from clinical researches to population, nutrition, environmental and healthsystems research. The most challenging initiatives I am involving are the studies of public health importance such as thedevelopmental origins of health and disease and climate change impact on health.

Literature, intellectual
property, work
●Nozawa Y, Wagatsuma Y. Protein Intake and Physical Performance Following Long-Term Stay on the International Space
Station. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2021 Mar 1;92(3):153-159. doi: 10.3357/AMHP.5640.2021. PMID: 33754972.
●Nyamasege CK, Kimani-Murage EW, Wanjohi M, Kaindi D, Wagatsuma Y. Effect of maternal nutritional education andcounselling on children's stunting prevalence in urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. Public Health Nutr. 2020 Jul
22:1-13. doi: 10.1017/S1368980020001962. PMID: 32693855.
●Ahmad SM, Raqib R, Huda MN, Alam MJ, Monirujjaman M, Akhter T, Wagatsuma Y, Qadri F, Zerofsky MS, Stephensen
CB. High-Dose Neonatal Vitamin A Supplementation Transiently Decreases Thymic Function in Early Infancy. J Nutr.
2020 Jan 1;150(1):176-183. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxz193. PubMed PMID: 31504694.

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