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Kazuko Yoshizawa, Sc.D.

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Harvard School of Public HealthScD1997Nutritional Epidemioology
Cornell UniversityMS1989International Nutrition

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Kazuko Yoshizawa, MS, Sc.D., is a visiting scientist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Kazuko is a nutrition epidemiologist currently developing a dietary intake assessment tool using new statistical methods for epidemiological studies in Japan. This assessment tool allows researchers to assess the link between diet and diseases like dementia, heart disease, and cancer. It's also possible to look into the relationship between fish consumption and mercury level in the environment.

Kazuko has conducted technological transfer to the ministry of health of UN member countries, Sudan, Afghanistan, Liberia, Timor-Leste, as a technical officer and a consultant. She also did it in Cambodia and Myanmar, as a JICA expert. In Timor-Leste, she developed a two-year project proposal on capacity building in health and nutrition for the ministry of health, funded by the Embassy of Japan. In Sudan, she helped the ministry with a two-year plan in health and nutrition, supported by the WHO HQ. In Liberia, she took the lead to develop the guidelines on managing moderate and severe malnutrition for the ministry of health.

Kazuko has eight years of experience as a university faculty in Japan, teaching public health nutrition, statistics, epidemiology, international nutrition, and thesis research to undergraduates and graduates.

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  1. https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/ja/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-1 (Kazuko Yoshizawa) Apr 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2021
    Ministry of Education, Japan
    Examining the system architecture in order to develop and use a dietary survey tool in community health activities.
    Role Description: Validation of a food frequency questionnaire for a Japanese population by use of the Harvard validation method
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. U of Nagasaki President Education Research Grants (Kazuko Yoshizawa) Apr 1, 2016 - Mar 31, 2017
    University of Nagasaki
    Study on the reliability of the Food Intake Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) that captures regional dietary patterns
    Role: Principle Investigator
  3. Community-oriented Education Research Grants (Kazuko Yoshizawa) Apr 1, 2015 - Mar 31, 2016
    Ministry of Education; University of Nagasaki
    Study on factors that affect the eating behavior of remote island residents
    Role: Principle Investigatore
  4. U of Nagasaki President Education Research Grants (Kazuko Yoshizawa) Apr 1, 2014 - Mar 31, 2015
    University of Nagasaki, Japan
    Study on validity and reproducibility of food intake frequency questionnaire (FFQ): Tool development for nutrition epidemiological survey
    Role: Principle Investigator
  5. U of Nagasaki President Education Research Grants (Kazuko Yoshizawa) Apr 1, 2013 - Mar 31, 2014
    University of Nagasaki
    Study on validity and reproducibility of food intake frequency questionnaire (FFQ): Tool development for nutrition epidemiological survey
    Role Description: Validation of the FFQ for a Japanese population
    Role: Principal Investigator

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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.