Inter-Graduate School Program for
Sustainable Development and Survivable Societies

Interdisciplinary Seminar[#72-(1)] [#73-(1)] [#74-(1)]※ You can attend all sessions. However, maximum of three credits ofinterdisciplinary seminar will be awarded for three or more sessions
attended.

① Implementation Science and Research for Health for All
Speaker 1: Dr. Sarah Louise Barber, Director of WHO Kobe Centre
Speaker 2: Dr. Makoto Suematsu, Director of Japan Agency for Medical
Research and Development (AMED)

Date: 09:30am-11:00 am, Monday, December 3, 2018
Venue: Symposium Hall, 5th floor,
International Science Innovation Building,
Kyoto University (Yoshida Campus)< Summary>“Kyoto Global Conference for Rising Public Health Researchers” (KGC) is aninternational conference annually hosted by Kyoto University School of Public Health.
With the main aim to nurture and empower students and early career researchers,
since 2015, KUSPH has been organizing the KGC, inviting participants from renowned
Public Health related institutions worldwide to exchange and sharing of ideas, lesson
learned, experience and solutions to the increasingly challenging health problems ofthe 21st century. The KGC audience consists of students, early career researchers, andstaff/faculty from partner universities.
• Chiang Mai University - Faculty of Public Health (Thailand)• Chulalongkorn University - College of Public Health Sciences (Thailand)• Kyoto University - School of Public Health (Japan)• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK)
• Mahidol University - Faculty of Public Health (Thailand)• National Taiwan University - College of Public Health (Taiwan)• National University of Singapore - Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Singapore)• University of Malaya - Faculty of Medicine, The Department of Social and PreventiveMedicine (Malaysia)• WHO Kobe Centre (Japan)
The theme of 2018 KGC is “Implementation Research and Science for Health for all”. A
key challenge faced by the Public/Global health community is how to get proveneffective interventions off the shelves and implement them in the real world toimprove health and save lives. The 2018 KGC is devoted to raising awareness andunderstanding of implementation research and science for health for all.

Dr. Barber will deliver a keynote speech on “Implementation Science: scaling up ofproven interventions to real world settings”.
The last few decades have seen great innovations in extending care and treatment for
many conditions globally. However, while we have research on clinical interventions,medicines, and vaccines, we are failing to convert these scientific findings topopulation level differences. One of the greatest challenges that we are facing is
implementing already proven and efficacious solutions. This challenge is the very heartof the concept of “sustainable development” and universal health coverage. In
studying interventions, several analytical challenges remain. First, even among basic
health interventions, the causal pathways from an activity, drug, or technology to ahealth outcome can be complex – and particularly for some of the health systeminterventions such as decentralization for example, causal pathways can be very
complicated. It is important, therefore, to map out a logical sequence between
interventions and outcomes, to identify the most important structural constraints in
the health system in addition to individual behavioural factors that modify theserelationships.
Secondly, most researchers are taught that objectivity andindependence are a critical part of doing research, and sometimes take pride in nothaving contact with implementing agencies or governments. Implementation research,however, requires a different approach because good implementation research isdesigned to match the implementation plan for the intervention. This requires theinvolvement local decision makers, local government, health workers, and communities
in the study design. Only by doing so can you fully understand the steps and decisions
by which a program was implemented, and design a good study. Third, behaviours ofpeople, patients, users of health services are critical in understanding impact.
Dr. Suematsu will deliver his speech on “Mission of AMED：Global data sharing”.
In April 2015, AMED was started to fast-track medical R&D and to improve a quality of life forpeople. Among a diversity of different medical researches, AMED has chosen a field of rare andundiagnosed diseases to tackle with a number of obstacles including rigid and inflexible
funding systems and “Balkanization” of mindsets among academia and researchers. We
launched “Initiative for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases (IRUD)” as the first leading project. It
aims to spread a concept of sharing clinical data, and “microattribution” that should berecognized by all project leaders. AMED has also joined in International Rare Disease
Consortium (IRDiRC) to share many experiences in rare disease researches which wereaccumulated over 40 years in Japan. Solving Balkanization among different sectors which
participate in medical R&D gives a clue to fast-track implementation of outcomes among allother fields of medical researches. Furthermore, IRUD Exchange (Clinical data base providing
pathogenic variant data linked with phenotype data) is now shared with Matchmaker Exchange
database to facilitate global data sharing to save rare disease patients over the world. I would
present an overview of our missions and introduce our novel projects including IRUD.

② Introduction to Meta-Analysis and Network Meta-Analysis
Speaker: Professor Toshi A. Furukawa, MD, PhD
Kyoto University School of Public Health

Date: 09:00am - 12:00pm, Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Venue: Seminar room B, Second floor, G-building, Medical campus,
Kyoto University(Building no. 18 on the map: http://bit.ly/1hIbR2j)
Large Seminar Room, First floor, Science Frontier Building,
Medical campus, Kyoto University(Building no. 16 on the map: http://bit.ly/1hIbR2j)< Summary>Professor Toshi A. Furukawa is Professor of Departments of Health Promotion and HumanBehavior, and of Clinical Epidemiology at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine /School of Public Health, since 2010. Prof Furukawa’s major areas of interest and expertise
include clinical epidemiology, evidence synthesis, and clinical psycho-pharmacology andcognitive-behavior therapy. He is author and co-author of over 350 peer-reviewed articles,including:■ Cipriani A*, Furukawa TA*, Salanti G*, et al (2018) Comparative efficacy and acceptability of
21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: asystematic review and network meta-analysis. Lancet, 391, 1357-1366. (*: co-first authors)■ Nikolakopoulou A, Mavridis D, Furukawa TA, et al (2018) Living network meta-analysis
compared with pairwise meta-analysis in comparative effectiveness research: empirical study.
BMJ, 360, k585.
■ Furukawa TA, Efthimiou O, Weitz ES, et al (2018) Cognitive-Behavioral Analysis System of
Psychotherapy, drug, or their combination for persistent depressive disorder: Personalizing thetreatment choice using individual participant data network metaregression. Psychotherapy andPsychosomatics, 87, 140-153.
■ Pompoli A, Furukawa TA†, Efthimiou O et al (2018) Dismantling cognitive-behaviour therapy
for panic disorder: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis. PsychologicalMedicine, 48, 1945-1953. (†: corresponding author)
After this three-hour workshop, the participants will be able to:
1. Understand the basic principles of meta-analysis
2. Understand the basic principles of network meta-analysis
3. Understand how to frame the research question in network meta-analysis③ Improving People’s Lives with Innovation and TechnologySpeaker: Mr. Toshi Nakamura ,Co-Founder & CEO, Kopernik

Date: 13:00pm– 14:30pm, Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Venue: Seminar room A, Second floor, G-building, Medical campus,
Kyoto University(Building no. 18 on the map: http://bit.ly/1hIbR2j)

< Summary>Toshi Nakamura is co-founder and CEO of Kopernik, an Indonesia-based organization that finds
what works to reduce poverty. Toshi, together with Ewa, co-founded Kopernik in 2010 with avision to make international development more effective. Before starting Kopernik, Toshi dealtwith governance reform, peace building processes, monitoring and evaluation, and postdisaster reconstruction at the United Nations (UN) in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, theUnited States and Switzerland. Prior to joining the UN, Toshi was a management consultant for
McKinsey and Company in Tokyo. He is a graduate of Kyoto University’ Law Faculty, holds MSc
Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is a Guest
Professor at Osaka University's Center for the Study of Co*Design. Toshi was selected as aWorld Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leader in 2012, and was a member of the WEF
Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Development 2014-2016.
After this 1.5 hour session, the participants will be able to:
1. Understand key challenges that people face in developing countries
2. Understand some examples of simple and innovative solutions to tackle those challenges④ Mentorship: How to give it, how to get it, and why it matters
Improve your mentoring skills to increase career success and satisfaction
Speaker: Prof. Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil, FACP
University of California, San Francisco

Date: 15:00pm – 17:00pm, Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Venue: Seminar room A, Second floor, G-building, Medical campus,Kyoto University(Building no. 18 on the map: http://bit.ly/1hIbR2j)< Summary>Dr. Feldman is Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine andthe Associate Vice Provost and Director of the Clinical Translational Science Mentor Training
Program at the University of California, San Francisco. He trained in medical anthropology atJohns Hopkins University and at Cambridge University and in Internal Medicine at UCSF. He has
been a visiting professor and has lectured widely on mentoring at major universities across theUS and in Japan and China. His research and others have shown that mentoring is key to amore productive and successful career in research, teaching and clinical care. In this workshop,Dr. Feldman will discuss what are the key competencies of outstanding mentorship that
support career success and satisfaction. Participants will use case studies to learn thefundamentals of how to find and work more effectively with a mentor; how to promotealignment in mentoring; and how to respond to mentoring challenges.
At the end of this workshop, participants will learn the fundamental skills of outstanding
mentors and mentees and how to apply them to their mentoring relationships. They will findthat improving your mentoring skills, as a mentee and/or as a mentor, is both fun andrewarding.

⑤ How to Write a Good Research Paper and Get PublishedTips from an Editor in Chief
Speaker: Prof. Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil, FACP
University of California, San Francisco

Date: 13:00pm – 16:00pm, Thursday, December 6, 2018
Venue: Seminar room 335, Third floor, G-building, Medical campus,
Kyoto University(Building no. 18 on the map: http://bit.ly/1hIbR2j)
Seminar room A, Second floor, G-building, Medical campus,
Kyoto University(Building no. 18 on the map: http://bit.ly/1hIbR2j)< Summary>Dr. Feldman is Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine andthe Associate Vice Provost at the University of California, San Francisco. He trained in medical
anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and at Cambridge University and in Internal
Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the immediate past Editor in Chiefof the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM), the #1 general medicine journal according
to Google Scholar. Dr. Feldman has authored more than 100 research papers, numerous bookchapters and is editor of a widely used text. In this interactive session, participants will havethe opportunity to learn the essential components of a good research paper from theperspective of an editor in chief and learn how reviewers and editors assess the quality andimportance of their work. Dr. Feldman will offer tips on how to construct and improve yourresearch paper, how to choose a journal, and the common problems with papers that lead torejection.
At the end of this workshop, participants will learn tips on how to write a successful research
paper and get it published. They will have the opportunity to review abstracts from real papers
submitted to JGIM and learn why some were successful and others rejected.

<Obligation to attendees>
Sign the attendance sheet at venue (if you can’t find the sheet, look forDr. Teeranee) and please actively participate to receive one credit for one
interdisciplinary seminar.
※ You can attend all sessions. However, maximum of three credits ofinterdisciplinary seminar will be awarded for three or more sessions
attended.

No registration required for Session ①: Implementation Science andResearch for Health for All.
For session ②-⑤, we PREFER that you register in the link below
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