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Lab. Sustainable Development & Human Ecology
Latest update on 4th April 2024.
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.
Graduate Students
- Manami Ueno Sato (GSHS, D): Laos
- Yorin Watabe (GSHS, D): Malawi, Cambodia, ...
- Moeno Sakai (GSHS, D): FSM, Indonesia, ...
- 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, D3): Nepal
- Tomomi Kajiwara (GSHS, D3, supervised by Prof. Chiba, Kyoto Univ.)
- Alfi Nurfita Chasanah (GSHS, D2): Indonesia
- Ken'ichi Asai (GSHS, D1): Community health around the leprosy patients and their family
- Zhou Xiaoyue（GSICS English course, M2)
- Khammany Phommachanh a.k.a. Sanly (GSICS English course, M1)
- Ayane Kawamoto (GSHS, M2): Drinking water
- Tanzilur Rahman (GSHS, M2, supervised by Prof. Chiba, Kyoto Univ.)
- Maya Sugiyama (GSICS, M2)
- Eri Katsuki (GSHS, M1)
- Yuka Kawahara (GSHS, M1)
Undergraduate students
- Yui Yoshioka (Medical Technology)
- Chinatsu Ozaki (Medical Technology)
- Azumi Fukunaga (Medical Technology)
- Miria Hirai (Medical Technology)
- Risako Maya (Medical Technology)
Research Students
(None)
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 (GSHS): Assist Prof., IRYO SOUSEI Univ., Thailand and Solomon Islands
- 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.
- Masako Yamada, Ph.D. (GSHS): Assist. Prof., Kobe City Univ. Nursing
- Jasmeet Bamrah (GSICS English course, M)
- Misato Tsuru (GSHS, M, supervised by Prof. Chiba, Kyoto Univ.)
- Hanna Horiguchi, Ph.D. (Health Sciences): Assist. Prof., Osaka Univ.
Activities
Basically we have laboratory meetings on every monday during 18:30-20:00 at GSICS 206. In the first semester of fiscal year 2022, those will still be held by Zoom online.
Past meetings
Fiscal Year 2023
1st semester
- 11th April
- Sanly
- 18th April
- Zhou
- 25th April
- Yorin Watabe
- 2nd May
- Chitose Iwasaki
- 9th May
- Seeta
- 16th May
- Rie Okuda
- 23rd May
- Emma
- 30th May
- Miho Sugiura
- 6th June
- Gita
- 13th June
- Shiva
- 20th June
- Alfi
- 27th June
- Ken'ichi Asai
- 4th July
- Moeno Sakai
- 11th July
- Maya Sugiyama
- 18th July
- Tanzilur Rahman
- 25th July
- Ayane Kawamoto
- 1st August
- Eri Katsuki
- 8th August
- Yuka Kawahara
2nd semester
(To be determined)
Useful links for students