Title Taro Takemi Professor of the Practice of International Community Health Institution Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Address 665 Huntington Ave
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Biography
| Yamagata University, Japan | MD | 03/1995 | |
| Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA | MPH | 05/1998 | International Health |
| Yamagata University, Japan | PhD | 09/2000 | Public Health |
2011
Distinguished Reviewer
2019
Honor for the contribution to socioeconomic development
Overview
Aya Goto is Professor of the Practice of International Community Health at Department of Global Health and Population, and Director of Takemi Program in International Health. She also holds the position of a specially appointed professor at Fukushima Medical University. Her translational research has been conducted in close collaboration with local communities in Fukushima, Japan and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and is combined with the capacity building of local health care professionals in health information as well as maternal and child health care. Since the Fukushima nuclear accident, Dr. Goto has been working closely with local public health nurses helping them respond appropriately to concerns among parents of small children about elevated background radiation. Recently, she started working with children in disaster-prone Asian countries toward health promotion and community development.
Research
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23KK0045
(Aya Goto)
Sep 8, 2023 - Mar 31, 2027
Anticipating crisis: Creating Creative Health and promoting health literacy of the next generation in disaster-prone regions
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23DB0201
(Akihito Nakai)
Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025
Research on the appropriate use of oral abortion pills
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(Aya Goto)
Apr 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2025
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Ethically Researching Health and Disasters: 3.11 and Beyond
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24DB0201
(Zentaro Yamagata)
Apr 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2027
Research on interim evaluation and monitoring of indicators and measures based on the Basic Policy on Child Health and Medical Care
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