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Lab. Sustainable Development & Human Ecology
Latest update on 7th March 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)
- Hanna Horiguchi, Ph.D. (Health Sciences): Assistant Professor at Osaka University
- 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
- Kaori Sano (GSHS, D6?, supervised by Prof. Uesugi, Kinjo Univ.)
- Junko Miyamoto (GSHS, D6): Hondulas
- Manami Ueno Sato (GSHS, D6): Laos
- Yorin Watabe (GSHS, D5): Malawi, Cambodia, ...
- Moeno Sakai (GSHS, D3): FSM, Indonesia, ...
- Chitose Iwasaki (GSHS, D4): Morocco, Cambodia
- Seetabaral Baral (GSHS, D4): Nepal
- Masako Yamada (GSHS, D4): Indonesia
- Rie Okuda (GSICS, D3): FSM
- Miho Sugiura (GSHS, D3): China
- Vilayphone Vang (GSHS, D3): Laos
- Acharya Shiva (GSHS, D3): Developing mobile apps and applying it for public health
- Gita Shrestha (GSHS, D2): Nepal
- Tomomi Kajiwara (GSHS, D2, supervised by Prof. Chiba, Kyoto Univ.)
- Alfi Nurfita Chasanah (GSHS, D1): Indonesia
- Ken'ichi Asai (GSHS, M3): Community health around the leprosy patients and their family
- Jasmeet Bamrah (GSICS English course, M2)
- Misato Tsuru (GSHS, M2, supervised by Prof. Chiba, Kyoto Univ.)
- Zhou Xiaoyue(GSICS English course, M1)
- Ayane Kawamoto (GSHS, M1): Drinking water
- Tanzilur Rahman (GSHS, M1, supervised by Prof. Chiba, Kyoto Univ.)
- Maya Sugiyama (GSICS, M1)
Undergraduate students
(None)
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): Research Associate at Tokyo Medical University, 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)
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
- 13th April
- Chitose Iwasaki
- 20th April
- Rie Okuda
- 27th April
- Kenichi Asai
- 4th May (online)
- Yourin Watabe
- 11th May
- Gita Shrestha
- 18th May
- Junko Miyamoto
- 25th May
- Shiva Acharya
- 1st June
- (Cancelled)
- 8th June
- Masako Yamada
- 15th June
- Jasmeet Bamrah
- 22nd June
- Seeta Baral
- 29th June
- Miho Sugiura
- 6th July
- Moeno Sakai
- 13th July
- Virayphone Vang (Emma)
- 20th July
- Tanzilur Rahman
- 27th July
- ZHOU Xiaoyue
- 3rd August
- Alfi
- 10th August
- Ayane Kawamoto
- 17th August
- Maya Sugiyama
- 24th August
- Manami Sato
2nd semester
- 5th October
- Kenichi Asai
- 12th October
- Takayo Maeda
- 19th October
- Chitose Iwasaki
- 26th October
- Yourin Watabe
- 2nd November
- Gita Shrestha
- 9th November
- Alfi
- 16th November
- Shiva Acharya
- 23rd November
- Rie Okuda
- 30th November
- (no meeting)
- 7th December
- Jasmeet Bamrah
- 14th December
- Seeta Baral
- 21st December
- Masako Yamada
- 28th December
- Winter Vacation
- 4th January
- Winter Vacation
- 11th January
- Tanzilur Rahman
- 18th January
- Junko Miyamoto and Masako Yamada
- 25th January
- Reharsal for doctoral presentation (by Junko Miyamoto, Masako Yamada and Kaori Sano)
- 1st February
- Emma
- 8th February
- Miho Sugiura
- 15th February
ZHOU Xiaoyue -> The reharsal for Jasmeet Bamrah's master thesis examination
- 22nd February
- Moeno Sakai
- 29th February
- (postponed due to Prof. Nakazawa's absence)
- 7th March
- Maya Sugiyama
- 14th March
- Ayane Kawamoto
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