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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

Graduate Students

Undergraduate students

(None)

Research Students

(None)

Alumni

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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