Community and Global Health Project
Project Leader
Prof. Seiji Kageyama, Faculty of Medicine
Project Organization
Climate Change and Human Health Group
Leader: Assoc. Prof. Shinji Otani, International Platform for Dryland Research and Education
“Building preventive medicine for the society of the near future”
Prevention of Infectious Diseases Group
Leader: Prof. Seiji Kageyama, Faculty of Medicine
“AIDS, influenza, and malaria control and establishing a pathogen information network to link Southeast Asian countries and Japan”
Veterinary and Animal Sciences Group
Leader: Prof. Takeshito Morita, Faculty of Agriculture
“Improvement of livestock rearing environments in drylands and establishment of disease outbreak prevention measures”
Project Introduction
“Efforts to solve human and livestock health issues in developing countries including drylands”
1. Climate Change and Human Health Group
Our aim is to assess the health impacts of climate change and environmental pollution, and to formulate countermeasures from the perspective of preventive medicine. We are mainly targeting groups with high health risks such as children, pregnant women, the elderly, and the poor, with the aim to construct a system that can be applied both in Japan and in developing countries.
(Keywords) preventive medicine, environmental pollution, climate change, vulnerable people, disease patterns
2. Prevention of Infectious Diseases Group
Together with local medical personnel outside of the metropolitan areas of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand, we will analyze infectious diseases and pathogens, and visualize data by superimposing them on maps. We are aiming to use dense data from outside of the metropolitan areas that cannot be obtained in the metropolitan areas of each country as a basis for the construction of a Tottori Prefecture/Southeast Asian regional infectious disease countermeasures team that can discuss transnational countermeasures.
(Keywords) Southeast Asia, infectious disease countermeasures, infectious disease, pathogen, visualization
3. Veterinary and Animal Sciences Group
We are aiming to improve the livestock rearing environment and prevent disease outbreaks in drylands in countries such as Ethiopia and Mongolia. To that end, we will investigate various diseases (mainly infectious diseases) of livestock in these drylands and provide information as a basis for infectious disease control; we will also improve inspection techniques used by local field investigators (e.g., pathological inspection, virological inspection) and foster the professional development of these local field investigators.
(Keywords) Mongolia, Ethiopia, infectious disease, infectious disease control, virus
