AY 2025
Entrance Examination Guideline
for the Application Guidefor Doctoral Program of International Health2025 年度博士後期課程学生募集要項
入学試験案内（国際保健学専攻）-

Points to Note when Preparing the Admission Application Form
（入学願書作成時の注意事項について）-

List of Supervisors（指導教員一覧）-

Notice Regarding Foreign Language (English) Examinations for Entrance（国際保健学専攻博士後期課程入試の外国語（英語）について）

東京大学大学院医学系研究科
Graduate School of Medicine
The University of Tokyo

Points to Note when Preparing the Admission Application Form
(Doctoral Program of International Health)Graduate Student Affairs Section, Graduate School of Medicine* Read the Admissions Guide carefully before filling out the Application Form.

SectionExamples/ points to note etc.

Field of your choice
Professor of yourchoiceCheck the attached 'List of Research Supervisors' before filling in this column.

Name

Fill in your name in both フリガナ (in Japanese phonetic writing) and 英字氏
名 (in English). Regarding your name in English, write down your name inaccord with the name in your passport.

Application
Form
Curriculum Vitae(front)

The CV should only contain details of university onwards (if you transferred touniversity from a junior college, etc. write the details of the college on thebottom line of the CV section).
Applicants who have completed studies in a foreign country should fill in the 'Formal education outside Japan ' section.

Employment history

If you cannot write your employment history in the space provided, write 'see
attachment' and attach an A4 page outlining your entire work history. Thissection should only include details of full-time positions.
* Resident physician experience should be listed as '(residency)', while
part-time medical personnel experience should be listed as '(part-time)'.

EmailPlease make sure that you provide your email address or mobile phone
number so that we can contact you in the event of any problems with yourapplication documents.

Application
Form
Emergency contact(back)

If this is the same as the 'Current address' section, place a tick ( ) in the box
beside 'Same as current address'.

Student ID/ ResearchThis section should only be filled out by University of Tokyo students.
Student ID
Other important information
Applications submitted after the application period will not be accepted under any circumstances.
Therefore, please request any necessary school certificates etc. at the earliest possible date. If thecertificate/s are not issued in time, you must contact the Graduate Student Affairs Section in advance (email:in.m@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp).
Details of the entrance exam schedule will be provided in the 'Examinee Notes' sent after application is
accepted.
As for the foreign language test, please refer to the attached notice ‘Notice Regarding Foreign Language(English) Examinations for Entrance to the Doctoral Program in International Health'Academic Year 2025
Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Doctorate Program of International Health
List of Supervisors
As of 2024 February○ Major fields of study and the faculty(1) Applicants will be instructed by a faculty member (a professor or an associate professor) of the major to which they applied.
(2) Applicants must contact that faculty member before applying.
(3) The faculty and research areas of each major field of study are shown below. Faculty members due to retire at the end of thisfiscal year may not be available to teach.
Major Field of
Study

FacultyCommunityand Global
HealthGlobal Health
PolicyUnder the processof selection
Professor
Associate
Professor

Human
Genetics

Developmental Medical
Sciences

Human
Ecology

Biomedical
Chemistry

Research Fields

Professor

Masahiro
Hashizume
Chris Fook Sheng
Ng
Akihiro Fujimoto

Associate
Professor

Motoko Unoki

Professor

Moi Meng Ling

Associate
Professor

Satoshi Taniguchi

Professor

Masahiro Umezaki

Associate
Professor

Shoko Konishi

Professor

Tomoyoshi Nozaki

Associate
Professor

Yoh-ichi Watanabe

Affiliation(Department)International
Social Medicine

Climate change and health, environmental
epidemiology, planetary health
Environmental statistics and data science, air quality
and health, population exposure-response modelingand risk assessment.
Human genetics, population genetics, cancer
genomics, human evolution
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry:
Molecular pathogenesis of diseases with epigenetic
changes, cross-disciplinary research to elucidate
the mechanisms between epigenetics and DNA
repair system
Tropical and emerging virus, immunology,
epidemiology, field research, vaccine andtherapeutics
Research into diagnosis, prevention, and treatmentof emerging and reemerging infectious diseases.
Development of animal models for infectious
diseases
The roles of gut microbiota in nutritional adaptationand the evolution of human populations, mitigationof the health impacts of aging and depopulation atcommunity/national scales. behavioral andnutritional adaptation of human populations in Asiaand Oceania, medical anthropology
Health impact assessment of exposure to heavy
metals, air pollution, unhealthy urban structures,and ecosystem degradation; Biological andbehavioral explanations of low fertility and fecundity
during the post-demographic transition period
Biochemistry, molecular biology, molecularparasitology: metabolic control mechanisms,
parasitic phenomena, analysis of infection andadaptation, design and development of antiinfective
drugsInternational
Social Medicine

International
Biomedical
Science

International
Biomedical
Science

International
Biomedical
Science

International
Biomedical
Sciences

Analysis and application of RNA and RNA-binding
proteins, analysis and application of extremophiles

International
Epidemiology
GlobalEnvironmental
HealthInternational
Cooperation
for Medical
Education

Associate
Professor

Yoonhee Kim

Professor

Masahiro Umezaki(Head of the
Department)

Lecturer

Hirotaka Onishi＊Applicants who
desire to study atInternational

Environmental epidemiology, health risk assessmentof climate change and variability and/or air pollution

International
Social Medicine

Medical education, health professional education,
learner assessment, programme evaluation, clinicaleducation, clinical reasoning, international
cooperation in health professional education

IRCME –
International
Cooperation for
MedicalCooperation for
Medical Education
should contact Dr
Onishi.
The contents may be updated. Please refer to our website for the latest version.
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Education

Notice Regarding Foreign Language (English) Examinations for Entrance
to the Doctoral Program in International HealthForeign language (English) written examination is not administered by the University of Tokyo to applicants for theDoctoral Program in International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo. In lieu of thoseexaminations, applicants are required to submit an official report of their TOEFL or IELTS scores as below. As
written in the NOTES, TOEFL or IELTS score submission may be exempted. Those who wish to be exempted from
submitting scores should contact administrative staff via email as specified (in.m@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp).

1. TOEFL score１

Acceptable

TOEFL-iBT、TOEFL iBT® Home Edition

TOEFL Score
２

Period of Validity

A TOEFL score will be valid only if the test was administered after the below date;【Enrollment for October, 2024】July 1, 2022
【Enrollment for April, 2025】January 1, 2023

３

Submission
Methods

Together with the other application documents, submit following documents:(1)- A copy of the “Test Taker Score Report” that was sent to the examinee by ETS.

“Test Taker Score- A screen copy of application result of “Institutional Score Report” that shows the application

Report(Examinee

date for ETS

Score Report)”
４

Submission
Methods

Please make a request to the ETS to forward an “Institutional Score Report” to “the University of(2)Tokyo Faculty of Medicine” with the following information.

“Institutional
Score Report”

DI (Designated Institution) Code: 8426
Division: Graduate Organization
Department: 42(Medicine)-

When making the request, do not use “University of Tokyo” or another DI code for the othergraduate schools of The University of Tokyo.

-

The “Institutional Score Report” will be accepted even if it arrives after the application
deadline, as long as the request has been made prior to the application. If multiple

Institutional Score Reports arrive at the Graduate Students Affairs Section, the score that
is identical to the Test Taker Score Report will be accepted.
５

Cautions

For details, please refer to the TOEFL website https://www.ets.org/jp/toefl/ .

Please note that in the situations described below, reports of TOEFL scores will NOT be accepted.
In those situations, it will be assumed that the applicant has chosen not to take the foreign
language (English) examination.
(1)

The “Institutional Score Report” does not arrive from the ETS.

(2)

The scores and the dates of the examination on the copy of the “Test Taker Score Report”
are not identical with those on the “Institutional Score Report”.

(3)The official score is not from a test administered during the time period prescribed in #2
above (Period of Validity).

(4)

Scores are submitted by methods other than those described in #1 and #2 above, or scores
are submitted by illicit means.

2. IELTS score
１

２

Acceptable

IELTS

An acceptable score is a Test Report From on the IELTS (Academic Module) only. Test Report

Score

Form of IELTS (General Training Module) is NOT acceptable.

Period of Validity

A IELTS score will be valid only if the test was administered after the below date;【Enrollment for October, 2024】July 1, 2022
【Enrollment for April, 2025】January 1, 2023

３

Submission

Together with the other application documents, submit a copy of the “Test Report Form” forMethods (1) Copy

the IELTS (Academic Module) that was forwarded to the examinee by the IELTS.

of

“Test

ReportForm”
４Submission

Please make a request to the IELTS office to forward an “Test Report Form” to the following

Methods(2)

Original“Test

address no later than the date mentioned below;
Graduate Student Affairs Section,

Report Form”

Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan-

The “Test Report Form” forwarded from the IELTS office will be accepted even if it
arrives after the application deadline, as long as the request has been made prior to theapplication.

If multiple Test Report Forms arrive at the Graduate Students Affairs

Section, the score that is identical to the above #3 will be accepted.
５

Cautions

For details, please refer to the IELTS website http://www.eiken.or.jp/ielts/.

Please note that in the situations described below, reports of IELTS scores will NOT be
accepted. In those situations, it will be assumed that the applicant has chosen not to take theforeign language (English) examination.
(1)

The “Test Report Form” does not arrive from the IELTS office.

(2)

The scores and the dates of the examination on the copy of the “Test Report Form” arenot identical with those on the original “Test Report Form”.

(3)

The “Test Report Form” is not from a test administered during the time period prescribedin #2 above (Period of Validity).

(4)

Scores are submitted by methods other than those described in #1 and #2 above, or scores
are submitted by illicit means.

3. NOTESTOEFL or IELTS score submission may be exempted if any of the following (1) or (2) apply.
(1) An applicant who earned or is expected to earn a bachelor’s degree, or the international equivalent thereof,
from an institution, where the primary language of the entire institution (not only the applicant’s department
or program) is English, in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K. or the U.S.A.
(2) An applicant who earned or is expected to earn a bachelor’s degree, or the international equivalent
thereof, from an institution, where the primary language of the entire institution (not only the applicant’s
department or program) is English in countries other than Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, theU.K. or the U.S.A. If an applicant falls into this category, he/she is required to send a certificate of
medium of instruction issued by the institution by mail.
※ Both (1) and (2) are limited to bachelor’s program only. NOT apply to master's and doctoral programs.
※ Those who wish to be exempted from submitting scores should contact administrative staff (email:in.m@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp) by following date.

【Enrollment for October, 2024】Monday, May 20, 2024
【Enrollment for April, 2025】Monday, November 11, 2024

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