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Lab. Sustainable Development & Human Ecology
Latest update on 26th September 2025.
The laboratory of Sustainable Development & Human Ecology, Department of Public Health, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences is managed by Prof. Minato Nakazawa since 1st April 2012.
Prof. Minato Nakazawa also works at GSICS as a professor of cooperative laboratory, so that some students are supervised and attending the regular seminar.
Theme of Research / Education
The sustainable development is one of the major targets of the United Nations' post-MDGs. From the viewpoint of international health, sustainability is essentially important. Overseas aids are, even if the amount of investment is huge, totally ineffective if the recipients cannot maintain the system, or do not have needed indeed. For instance, if hunter-gatherer once changes their subsistence to sedentary farming and/or herding as the result of overseas aid to increase stability of food production, they may tend to suffer from various infectious diseases, so that the clinic must be built and vaccinations are needed. Since the natural environment which the hunter-gatherer depended on cannot revive, they must continue farming/herding after the end of overseas aid. Vaccination and treatment in the clinic must be maintained by the local people, though it is very difficult. The aid must consider such a situation, including the local ecosystem. In other words, we must study the human ecology of the local population (recipients) (and sometimes donors, too). We aim to study and give education for these topics.
To check actual fieldwork done by Prof. Nakazawa, see his personal web site. Graduate students' studies will be introduced here in the future.
Members
(Note: GSICS=Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, GSHS=Graduate School of Health Sciences)
Faculty
Research Assoociates of Health Sciences
- Ichiro Mihara, Ph.D. (International Studies)
- Bharat Negi, Ph.D. (Health Sciences)
- Takayo Maeda, Ph.D. (Health Sciences)
- Risa Murakami, Ph.D. (Health Sciences)
- Megumi Kitagawa, Ph.D. (Health Sciences), supervised by Prof. Uesugi, Kinjo Univ.
- Satoko Mizohata, Ph.D. (Health Sciences), supervised by Prof. Uesugi, Kinjo Univ.
- Masako Yamada, Ph.D. (Health Sciences)
Graduate Students
- Manami Ueno Sato (GSHS, D): Laos
- Yorin Watabe (GSHS, D): Malawi, Cambodia, ...
- Chitose Iwasaki (GSHS, D): Morocco, Cambodia
- Seetabaral Baral (GSHS, D): Nepal
- Rie Okuda (GSICS, D): FSM, Assist. Prof., Sonoda Women's Univ.
- Miho Sugiura (GSHS, D): China
- Vilayphone Vang a.k.a. Emma (GSHS, D): Laos
- Acharya Shiva (GSHS, D): Developing mobile apps and applying it for public health
- Gita Shrestha (GSHS, D): Nepal
- Tomomi Kajiwara (GSHS, D, supervised by Prof. Chiba, Kyoto Univ.)
- Alfi Nurfita Chasanah (GSHS, D3): Indonesia
- Ken'ichi Asai (GSHS, D2): Community health around the leprosy patients and their family
- Chiharu Horimoto (GSHS, D1)
- Eri Katsuki (GSHS, M2)
- Yuka Kawahara (GSHS, M2)
- Li Xueer (GSICS, M1)
Undergraduate students
- Nobutaka Kiyomura (Medical Technology)
Research Students
Kakin Sou
Exchange Students
Florentine Görlitz
Alumni
- Kazuko Miyamoto, Ph.D. (GSHS): Professor, Yamanashi University
- Syahirul Alim, Ph.D. (GSHS): Faculty in Universitas Gadja Madah)
- Junko Koga (GSHS)
- Kaori Sugishima (GSHS)
- Sakie Shizuki (GSICS[as sub])
- Ayaka Shimizu (GSICS): JOCV in Bolivia)
- Yui Hosokawa (GSICS[as sub])
- Shoko Nakamura (GSHS)
- Harumi Oshitani (GSHS)
- Hisako Kasahara (GSICS)
- Miho Ikai (GSICS)
- Ryodai Yamamura (Undergrad, MT, Ph.D. at Hokkaido Univ., Postgraduate researcher at Hokkaido Univ.)
- Kaoru Mitsumori (Undergrad, MT)
- Yoshinori Matsumoto (Undergrad, Ns)
- Keiko Aihara (Undergrad, Ns): Graduate Student at SPH, Univ. Tokyo
- Mami (Sakakibara) Ozaki (Undergrad, Ns, the study has been published as JSOS Newsletter paper in Japaneses): JOCV
- Yuka Morita (Undergrad, MT)
- Yuuya Karato (Undergrad, MT, the study has been presented in the annual meeting of JSHHE)
- Yuuta Mitono (Undergraduate, MT, the study has been presented in the annual meeting of JSHHE)
- Minami Kamata (Undergraduate, MT)
- Tomoko Kanata (GSICS): West Africa
- Chihiro Tsuchiya, Ph.D. (GSHS M and Kyoto Univ D): Assoc. Prof. since 2025.
- Shigeo Fukuda (GSHS): Singapore
- Ryoko Yamaguchi (GSICS): Indonesia
- Yao Yao (GSICS): China
- Takako Sasatani (Research Associate)
- Reiko Yotsumoto (Research Students)
- Moe Takano (GSICS): Korea
- Wanjing Li (GSICS): China
- Mayumi Kawanishi (Undergrad, MT)
- Riko Kakutani (Undergrad, MT)
- Chieko Niboshi (GSHS): Cambodia
- Saya Komatsu (GSICS): Indonesia
- Farhana Yesmine Jui (in GSHS, Oct.2019-Mar.2021, from Bangladesh)
- Rika Arimoto (GSHS)
- Atsushi Ohta (GSHS)
- Norimitsu Sasaki (GSICS)
- Emi Kobayashi (GSHS)
- Katsura Danno (Research Associate)
- Shohei Morita (GSHS)
- Haruka Sawada (GSHS)
- Rikako Mizuhata (GSHS)
- Midori Saito (GSHS)
- Yuzuki Miki (Undergrad, MT)
- Kaori Sano, Ph.D. (GSHS): Lecturer, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical Univ.
- Junko Miyamoto, Ph.D. (GSHS): Assoc. Prof., Hiroshima International Univ.
- Jasmeet Bamrah (GSICS English course, M)
- Misato Tsuru (GSHS, M, supervised by Prof. Chiba, Kyoto Univ.)
- Hanna Horiguchi, Ph.D. (Health Sciences): Assoc. Prof., Osaka Univ.
- Moeno Sakai, Ph.D. (GSICS M, GSHS D): Save the children to UNICEF
- Yui Yoshioka (Undergrad, MT)
- Chinatsu Ozaki (Undergrad, MT)
- Azumi Fukunaga (Undergrad, MT)
- Miria Hirai (Undergrad, MT)
- Risako Maya (Undergrad, MT)
- Zhou Xiaoyue（GSICS M)
- Khammany Phommachanh a.k.a. Sanly (GSICS M)
- Ayane Kawamoto (GSHS M): Drinking water
- Tanzilur Rahman (GSHS M, supervised by Prof. Chiba, Kyoto Univ.)
- Maya Sugiyama (GSICS, M)
Activities
Basically we have laboratory meetings on every Thursday during 18:30-20:00 at GSICS 206 and Zoom online simultaneously. Since 2025, the joint meeting with Prof. Matsui's lab is held.
Past meetings
Fiscal Year 2025
2nd semester
- 2nd Oct.
- Yorin Watabe
- 9th Oct.
- Kenichi Asai
- 16th Oct.
- Rie Okuda
- 23rd Oct.
- Emma Vang
- 30th Oct.
- Acharya Shiva
- 6th Nov.
- Gita Shrestha
- 13th Nov.
- Tomomi Kajiwara
- 20th Nov.
- Alfi Nurfita
- 27th Nov.
- Kana Kuroda
- 4th Dec.
- Seeta Baral
- 11th Dec.
- Chiharu Horimoto
- 18th Dec.
- Haruna Teraoka
- 25th Dec.
- Eri Katsuki
- 8th Jan.
- Yuka Kawahara
- 15th Jan.
- Serina Kawatsu
- 22nd Jan.
- Sakura Matsuki
- 29th Jan.
- Li Xueer
- 5th Feb.
- Bharat Negi
- 12th Feb.
- Ichiro Mihara
- 19th Feb.
- Takayo Maeda
- 26th Feb.
- Masako Yamada
Useful links for students