Special lectures and promotion of collaboration with Philippine counterparts（2017/1/13-14）
Topics: Education of disaster medicine, integration of disaster and health statistics, simulation of disaster medicine.
Venue: San Lazaro Hospital, Department of Health, University of Philippines Manila, Angeles University, (Manila,Angeles, Philippines)

On Jan, 13, 2017, Prof. Shinichi Egawa of IRIDeS, Disaster Medical Science Division visited San
Lazaro Hospital in Manila, that has Memorandum of Agreement on academic exchange withTohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, and gave special lecture on “How to make healthy
community resilient against disaster”. San Lazaro Hospital is a government hospital specialized ininfectious disease and plays a role as a central hospital for health emergencies. There were 33
audience from the National Reference Laboratory/San Lazaro Hospital STD AIDS Cooperative
Central Laboratory actively leaned the concept of disaster risk reduction and the role of healthprofessionals. Prof. Egawa used the interactive answer pad system and got high evaluation of thelecture.
Prof. Egawa visited Department of Health, Government of Philippines and promoted thecollaborative project of incorporating the health statistics with disaster statistics in Global Center
for Disaster Statistics of IRIDeS established under MOA with United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP). Prof. Egawa explained the necessity of combining the health statistics withdisaster statistics and the result of analysis that is showing the correlation of life expectancy andthe disaster risks. There was positive response to the data sharing with IRIDeS especially on thevital statistics and health facility data.
In the afternoon, Prof. Egawa visited University of Philippines Manila (UP Manila) that has MOA
with IRIDeS and joined the resident meeting in Surgery and Emergency Medicine. Prof. Egawa
presented the research project to the residents and staffs of the team. The simulation is based on
the system dynamics and forecast the medical needs in disaster with interactive dashboard oftrauma, rehabilitation, Non-communicable disease (NCD), infectious disease, mother and childhealth and mental health. Philippine affected by many natural disasters and promoting the disastermedicine. We promoted the collaborative project to analyze the actual health damage in Typhoon
Haiyan disaster and apply the simulation into the decision making process of disaster andemergency medicine.
On Jan. 14, Prof. Egawa visited School of Public Health, Angeles University Foundation that has
MOA with IRIDeS and gave special lectures on making healthy community against disasters anddisaster related infectious disease. More than 80 nursing school students, public health nurses,
teachers and the faculties joined. `Prof. Egawa lectured that aging, urbanization, complexity of thesociety and globalization changes the health risks in disaster dynamically and that the role of healthcluster should be flexible and transdisciplinary to promote the inter sectoral coordination andcollaboration. Prof. Egawa asked the students how they can reduce the risks of infectious disease
after disaster and also to reduce the risk of biohazard as a disaster. Interactive lecture using theanswer pad system got high evaluation from the attendees. Prof. Egawa emphasized theimportance of measurement of health standards to improve the health status of the community
raising the example of correlation of life expectancy and the disaster risk emphasizing theimportance of health promotion to make community resilient against disaster. The role of healthprofessionals are to provide appropriate information about the hazard and bridging the clusters topromote the cluster collaborative approach in disaster.
In Philippines, the collaboration between health and other cluster is about to begin to share theinformation and knowledge. Philippine is a good counterpart for IRIDeS and Japan.
Reported by Shinichi Egawa (Disaster Medical Science Division)(continues on the next page)Prof. Egawa lectures in San Lazaro Hospital

Researchers in San Lazaro Hospital actively
participating the lecture using answer pad system

Together with surgical and emergency

Prof. Egawa presenting the research project on

medicine residents and faculties in UP Manila

simulation in disaster medicine

Prof. Egawa lectures in School of Public
Heath in Angeles University Foundation

Students of nursing school, public health nurses,
teachers and faculties of Angeles University
actively participates using answer pad system