Hirokazu OSADA, PhD

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Infant, Child, and Adolescent Mental Health
Maternal and Child Health
Medical Anthropology

Clinical Epidemiology

MESSAGE

My main research interests are facilitating the translation of research findings into mental health policy and practice and evaluating the impact of mental health services. I have been working to determine ways to implement and sustain evidence-based treatments for young people with neurodevelopmental disorders, mental illnesses, and/or maladaptive behaviors. Prevention is another keyword for my research and practical interests. For the prevention of transgenerational mental illness, I have been conducting to promote parenting support to parents with mental illness. Especially, I have directly been trained by a Finnish child psychiatrist and her colleague in Finland for providing a new parenting support method, called “Let’s Talk About Children (LTC)” in Japan. The LTC was chosen as one of the best practices in public health by the European Commission in 2021 (cf. https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/dyna/bp-portal/practice.cfm?id=385), and the LTC has already been implemented in several European countries, Australia, USA, and Japan. I really consider that my mission is to disseminate the LTC to the Japanese public health system and other related services.

NARRATIVE CV

Hirokazu Osada received his PhD in health science from the University of Tokyo in 2003. From 2003 to the 2021 fiscal year, he had been a full-time faculty staff and taught undergraduate and graduate students at Senshu University, Shirayuri University, and Kyoto Notre Dame University. In the 2009 fiscal year, he was a visiting associate professor at Columbia University Medical Center/New York State Psychiatric Institute. He was in the Division of Mental Health Services and Policy Research in the Department of Psychiatry and conducted research under Dr. Essock, who is an emerita professor at Columbia University. While being a professor at those universities, he has also been working as a clinical psychologist/mental health professional in mental health services. Besides as the university faculty staff and the practical psychotherapist, he has devoted himself to conducting research in the field of infant, child, and adolescent mental health, especially for developing scales, which can be used as screening/evaluating abnormal behaviors (e.g., neurodevelopmental disorders, antisocial, or maladaptive behaviors, such as callous-unemotional traits, or problematic internet use). In the process of developing those scales, he has been collaborating with international researchers. His main goal is to translate the findings of his clinical-based epidemiological research into mental health policy and practice.

Selected Publications

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