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JST PRESTO (Sakigake) Pandemic Resilience
Tohoku University SOKAP-Connect TUPRePThe East-West Divide
in COVID-19 Mortality-Lessons for Future Pandemics-

FEB.24(SAT)

2024
13:00-17:30UST)

Venue:

I•W:tiil Sendai International Center
Exhibition Building
Meeting room 1 & 2
1•1~1!1~11 Zoom

COVID-19 has been causing a devastating impact
worldwide. However, the mortality rates weresignificantly different between countries. Generally,
the mortality rates were lower in Asian countries thanRegistration: By FEB. 20(TUE)
in the United States and European high-income
https://forms.gle/9liADbvPododPkkA9 countries. Various factors might be involved in suchdifferences between Eastern and Western countries, but theexact reason is still unknown. It is critical to understand these~_;j!~~~~;;:}·~ i~ ~factors to prepare for future pandemics. The Japan Science andTechnology Agency (JST) and Tohoku University organize a joint
symposium on COVID-19 to discuss COVID-19 responses in Easternand Western countries from different perspectives.

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Prof. Dean T Jamison
Dean T Jamison is a professor, now emeritus, in the Institute for
Global Health Sciences at the University of California, SanFrancisco . He received a PhD in economics from Harvard
University under the supervision of Nobel laureate Kenneth
Arrow and has spent his career in academia and at the World
Bank. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine of the US
National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

Prof. Julian Tang
After training in Medicine and Zoology at Cambridge and completing aZoology PhD in biological fluid dynamics in Aberdeen, Dr Tang finished
his medical training in Sheffield before completing specialist clinicalvirology training at University College London in 2005. As a ConsultantVirologist and Honorary Associate Professor, he researches respiratory
viruses: how they spread and cause disease, and how to control them,
particularly focusing on aerosol and airborne transmission. For over 20years, he has worked with international networks of virologists,
physicians, epidemiologists and engineers in this field, including, mostrecently, acting as an ad-hoc expert advisor to the WHO.

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Prof. Hitoshi Oshitani
Professor, Department ofVirology, Graduate School ofMedicine, Tohoku University

Prof. Hiroo Sato
Professor, Graduate School ofArts and Letters,Tohoku University

Dr. Akihiko Nishi
Associate Professor,
Department of Epidemiology,
UCLA Fielding School of Public
Health/Sakigake Fellow

Emal : tuprep@med.tohoku.ac.jp

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PRE5TU X TUPReP~1JST PRESTO (Sakigake) Pandemic Resilience and 2Tohoku University SOKAP-Connect TUPReP

Joint International Symposium The East-West Divide in COVID-19 Mortality -Lessons for Future Pandemics-Program
Chair: Hitoshi Oshitani (Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University)

13:00-13:45 "East and West divide in COVID-19 response"
Prof. Dean Jamison (Emeritus Professor in the Institute for Global Health Sciences at the University of california, San Francisco)13:45-14:30 "COVID-19 pandemic response in the United Kingdom and Asian Countries"
Prof. Julian Tang (Professor of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester)

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Chair: Ken Osaka (Professor, Graduate School of Dentistry, Tohoku University)

14:30-15:00 "Cultural Aspects of COVID-19 Response in Japan"
Prof. Hi roo Sato (Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University)

15:00-15:10 Coffee Break
15:10-15:40 "Factors for low mortality impact of COVID-19 in Japan and Asia"
Prof. Hitoshi Oshitani (Professor, Department of Virology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University)
15:40-16:00 "Prosocial Behavior in the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Dr. Akihiko Nishi (Associate professor, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health/Sakigake Fellow)

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Panelists: Prof. Dean Jamison, Prof. Julian Tang, Prof. Hiroo Sato, Prof. Hitoshi Oshitani, Dr. Akihiko Nishi,
Dr. Shuhei Nomura (Keio University/Sakigake Fellow)
Dr. Akira Endo (National University of Singapore· Nagasaki University/Sakigake Fellow)
Dr. Daisuke Yoneoka (National Institute of Infectious Disease · Tokyo University/Sakigake Fellow)

17:15-17:25 Conclusion
17:25-17:30 Closing
JST PRESTO (Sakigake) is a program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency to support research of young investigator. Social and technologicalframework for pandemic resilience is one of areas of JST PRESTO.
2 TUPRep(Tohoku University Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Global Preparedness and Local Resilience to Next Pandemics) is one of research projects
under SOKAP (Sustainability Open-Knowledge-Action Program), which is a multidisciplinary research project of Tohoku University
1Onsite Venue
Sendai International Center, Exhibition Building, Meeting room 1 8r.. 2
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