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Koji Wada

MD, MSc, PhD
Graduate School of Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health,
Affiliation Campus: Tokyo Akasaka

Profile (Career Summary)

Koji Wada has been working as a professor, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, International University of Health and Welfare since April 2018. He has also served as the director of International Medical Cooperation of International University of Health and Welfare.

He worked for the JICA Project for Improvement of Hospital Management Competency in Cho Ray Hospital in Vietnam as the chief advisor from January 2017 to March 2018. He had also worked in Myanmar as the advisor for HIV in 2014. He was also dispatched for Democratic Republic of the Congo as an expert for public health response of yellow fever in 2016 as a member of Japan Disaster Relief Team.

Dr. Wada used to work as an associate professor in Department of Public Health of Kitasato University to conduct various research projects such as pandemic flu response funded by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. He had also served as the expert panel for pandemic flu in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare from 2008 to 2015.

Dr. Wada has numerous scientific publications, including authorship of risk assessment of infectious diseases for Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He has received several noteworthy awards by the Japan Medical Association, the Japanese Society of Public Health, and Japan Society of Occupational Health.

Message to Students

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References

1. Nakamura S, Wada K, Yanagisawa N, Smith DR. Health risks and precautions for visitors to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2018 S1477-8939(18)30005-X.
2. Kakamu T, Wada K, Smith DR, Endo S, Fukushima T. Preventing heat illness in the anticipated hot climate of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Environ Health Prev Med 2017;22:68
3. Takashima K, Wada K, Tra TT, Smith DR. A review of Vietnam’s healthcare reform through the Direction of Healthcare Activities (DOHA). Env Health Prev Med 2017:22;74
4. Ishimaru T, Wada K, Sara A, Derek S. Willingness to care for bood-borne virus infected patients in Thailand. Occup Med 2018　doi:10.1093/occmed/kqy040
5. Eguchi H, Wada K, Prieto-Merino D, Smith DR. Lung, gastric and colorectal cancer mortality by occupation and industry among working-aged men in Japan. Sci Rep 2017;7:43204
6. Wada K, Gilmour S. Inequality in mortality by occupation related to economic crisis from 1980 to 2010 among working-age Japanese males. Sci. Rep 2016; 6, 22255
7. Wada K, Kondo N, Gilmour S, Ichida Y, Fujino Y, Satoh T, Shibuya K. Trends in the leading causes of death by occupations among men aged 30-59 years in Japan, 1980-2005.BMJ 2012;344:e1191