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Hiroyasu ISO, MD, Ph.D, MPH

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Director of Institute for Global Health Policy Research (iGHP),
Bureau of International Health Cooperation, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Epidemiology of non-communicable disease (NCD)
Implementation and evaluation for NCD prevention
Public health policy

MESSAGE

As a director of iGHP, I am proceeding our missions: to accumulate evidence on global health policy, 2) to conduct research on health care systems in Japan and other countries, 3) to develop human resources for global health policy research, and 4) to make policy recommendations locally and globally.

NARRATIVE CV

Dr. Iso received his doctoral degree in Medical Science (corresponding to PhD) from the University of Tsukuba in 1986 and the Master of Science degree in Epidemiology and Public Health (which is corresponding to MPH) from the University of Minnesota in 1988.

He was a fellow researcher at the University of Minnesota (1988-1988), a physician at Osaka Medical Center (1988-1990), an Assistant Professor (1990-1993) and an Associate Professor (1993-2002) at the University of Tsukuba, a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University (1996-1997), a Professor at the University of Tsukuba (2002-2004), the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tsukuba (2004- 2005) and a Professor of Public health, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka university in July 2005, and the current position of iGHP.

Professor Iso served as Vice Dean at the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University (2013-2015). His selected memberships in academic societies cover President of Japanese Society of Public Health, Former President of Japan Epidemiological Association, President of Japanese Society of Public Health, Trustee of Japan Society of Preventive Cardiology, Councilors of Japan Society of Hygiene, Japan Society of Hypertension and Japan Stroke Society, as well as Circulation Journal Associate Editor of Japanese Circulation Society.

Professor Iso's international activities include the position of a WHO scientific adviser for noncommunicable diseases. His research field has been epidemiology and prevention of lifestyle-related disease (hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, stroke and ischemic heart disease as well as dementia). Research and educational projects he committed as a principal investigator for large and long-term cohort studies and trials such as Circulatory Risk in Communities Study (CIRCS), Japan Environment & Children's Study (JECS) and Japan Trial in High-risk Individuals to Accelerate their Referral to Physicians: A Nurse-led, Community-based Prevention Program of Lifestyle-related Disease (J-HARP). As a coprincipal investigator, he participated in the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study (JPHC Study), and Japan Collaborative Cohort Study for Evaluation of Cancer Risk (JACC). He directs Osaka University projects for medical data science (2019-2024) and integrated research on prevention, treatment and care for dementia (2019-2021). He also served as Director for Master program for Public Health(MPH), and the Campus Asia Project to raise research leaders in medicine and public health to solve global health programs with 5 top Universities in China and South Korea.

SELECTIVE REFERENCES

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