Biography プロフィール
Koji Wada has been working as a professor, at the Department of Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, International University of Health and Welfare since April 2018. He has also served as the director of International Medical Cooperation of the International University of Health and Welfare.
He worked for the JICA Project for Improvement of Hospital Management Competency in Cho Ray Hospital in Vietnam as the chief advisor from January 2017 to March 2018. He had also worked in Myanmar as the advisor for HIV in 2014. He was also dispatched to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an expert for public health response of yellow fever in 2016 as a member of the Japan Disaster Relief Team.
Dr Wada used to work as an associate professor in the Department of Public Health of Kitasato University to conduct various research projects such as pandemic flu response funded by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. He had also served as the expert panel for pandemic flu in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare from 2008 to 2015.
Dr Wada has numerous scientific publications, including authorship of risk assessment of infectious diseases for Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He has received several noteworthy awards from the Japan Medical Association, the Japanese Society of Public Health, and the Japan Society of Occupational Health.
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和田教授は、2018年4月より国際医療福祉大学医学部公衆衛生学・同大学院医学研究科公衆衛生学専攻教授、また、独立行政法人国立国際医療研究センター国際医療協力局医師。
2017年1月から2018年3月まで、JICAベトナム国チョーライ病院向け病院運営・管理能力向上支援プロジェクトチーフアドバイザーを務め、出向にてJICAミャンマー国主要感染症プロジェクトHIV専門家として顧問も務めた。先般のコンゴ民主共和国における黄熱病の流行に対する国際緊急援助隊・感染症対策チームの派遣隊員として支援活動に従事。
厚生労働省が資金提供するパンデミックインフルエンザ対策など、さまざまな研究プロジェクトを実施するために、北里大学医学部公衆衛生学准教授として従事し、2008年から2015年に厚生労働省の新型インフルエンザ専門家会議委員・作業班員や都道府県での新型インフルエンザ等に関する委員会の委員を務める。
東京2020オリンピック・パラリンピック競技大会に関与する自治体における感染症対策のためのリスク評価など多数の科学書物を出版し、日本医師会、日本公衆衛生学会、および日本労働衛生学会から賞を複数受賞。