Sumiyo OKAWA, Ph.D.

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Cancer control
Maternal and child health
Adolescent and young adult health
HIV

MESSAGE

I would like to contribute to generating evidence for making policies that enable people to receive the medical and healthcare services they need in countries around the world, by making use of my past experience in various field research in Asia and Africa and cancer control activities in Osaka, Japan.

NARRATIVE CV

Dr. Sumiyo Okawa joined the Institute for Global Health Policy Research (iGHP) in May 2021, and is currently working as a Senior Research Fellow at the institute. She got interested in serving children affected by poverty when she was young. After having a five-year clinical experience in nursing at Toranomon Hospital, she studied Community and Global Health at the Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo. During the Mater and PhD programs, she experienced several field studies with focus on children and women affected by HIV in Kenya and Zambia. After receiving the PhD degree, she fully engaged in Ghana EMBRACE Implementation Research project, a cluster randomized controlled trial on continuum of care in maternal, newborn, and child health program, in 2013-16. In 2017-18, she worked as a Research Fellow of the Takemi Program in International Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After completing the program, she went back to her hometown, and worked as a biostatistician at the Cancer Control Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute. She actively worked on cancer control in collaboration with medical staff in the institute and the prefectural government. Since 2020, she’s been working as a Visiting Scientist of the Division of International Collaborative Research, Center for Public Health Sciences, National Cancer Center Japan, to support development of Population-Based Cancer Registries (PBCR) in Asia. She treasures every single thing she learned from people and her colleagues she met through her work.

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