Miyuki HORI, Ph.D.

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Global Health Metrics and Evaluation, Bureau of International Health Corporation, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Public Health
Epidemiology
Preventive medicine(NCDs)

MESSAGE

My research focus is on the epidemiological studies of cancer and cardiovascular disease in lessdeveloped countries.

NARRATIVE CV

Miyuki Hori is a Senior Researcher of Institute for Global Health policy Research (iGHP) of National Center for Global and Medicine (NCGM). Her research interests include prevention and control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and chronic diseases not only in developed but also less-developed countries.

Previously, she worked two years as a project researcher of National Cancer Center (NCC) in Tokyo. In NCC, she conducted research by using a large-scale of prospective cohort study on lifestyle and NCDs among Japanese. This experience in NCC brought her attention to prevent cancer for general population. Her current research interest is also to find the Heated Tobacco Product (HTP) prevalence among elderly people as well as the association between HTP use and cancer risks.

She received her PhD in medicine from the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine in 2016, and Master of Science in Nursing from Nagoya City University in 2008. In addition to research experience, she has four years of experience as a nurse in public health center and total of three years of experience as college teaching assistant.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (PEER-REVIEWED)

• Takeuchi T, Kitamura Y, Sobue T, Utada M, Ozasa K, Sugawara Y, Tsuji I, Hori M, Sawada N, Tsugane S, Koyanagi YN, Ito H, Wang C, Tamakoshi A, Wada K, Nagata C, Shimazu T, Mizoue T, Matsuo K, Naito M, Tanaka K, Inoue M; Research Group for the Development, Evaluation of Cancer Prevention Strategies in Japan. Impact of reproductive factors on breast cancer incidence: Pooled analysis of nine cohort studies in Japan. Cancer Med. 2021 Mar;10(6):2153-2163.
• Ikeda S, Ikeda A, Yamagishi K, Hori M, Kubo S, Sata M, Okada C, Umesawa M, Sankai T, Kitamura A, Kiyama M, Ohira T, Tanigawa T, Iso H. Longitudinal Trends in Blood Pressure Associated With the Frequency of Laughter: The Circulatory Risk in Communities Study (CIRCS), a Longitudinal Study of the Japanese General Population. J Epidemiol. 2021 Feb 5;31(2):125-131.
• Hori M, Kitamura A, Kiyama M, Imano H, Yamagishi K, Cui R, Umesawa M, Muraki I, Okada T, Sankai T, Ohira T, Saito I, Tanigawa T, Iso H; CIRCS Investigators. Fifty-year Time Trends in Blood Pressures, Body Mass Index and their Relations in a Japanese Community: The Circulatory Risk in Communities Study (CIRCS). Atheroscler Thromb. 2017 May 1;24(5):518-529.
• Yamagishi K, Hori M, Iso H. Fish and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in relation to risk of cardiovascular disease. Nihon Rinsho. 2013 Sep;71(9):1552-7.
• Kano M, Hotta M, Prasad A. Inequalities in noncommunicable disease mortality in the ten largest Japanese cities. Journal of Urban Health. 2013;90(6):1041–52.