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Maternal-Child and Family Health Support Lab
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The lab supports mothers, children, and families through nursing and midwifery, from pregnancy and childbirth to child-rearing.
AboutAbout the lab
Supporting the health of women, children, and families
The Maternal-Child and Family Health Support Lab is a group of faculty members in the Wide-Area Lifespan Nursing field who work in maternal nursing, midwifery, and pediatric nursing.
Its education and research cover sexual and reproductive health across women's lives, the health of mothers and families from pregnancy through the postpartum period, and nursing for children and families in a variety of circumstances.
The field also provides education for the public health nurse course at the undergraduate level and the midwifery course in the master's program, training public health nurses and midwives.
The lab's website covers the whole field and is shared with the public health nursing, home care nursing, and gerontological nursing labs.
Key terms
- Reproductive health
- Health related to sexuality and reproduction. In maternal nursing, support is considered across a woman's whole life, from adolescence through menopause and beyond
- Midwife
- A professional who supports women's health through pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period and across their lives, and who also provides care for the physical and mental development of newborns and infants
- QOL
- Quality of life. In pediatric nursing, nursing is designed to maintain and improve the QOL of children and families
ResearchResearch themes
In the fields of maternal nursing, midwifery, and pediatric nursing, the lab conducts education and research on nursing that supports the health of pregnant and postpartum women, children, and their families. The research page introduces research themes by faculty member, such as the effects of lifestyle during pregnancy on fetal and postnatal development, perinatal mental health, neonatal feeding, and advocacy for children's rights.
*Illustrative imageMaternal nursing that supports women across their lives
The lab covers learning and research on nursing that supports reproductive health issues across women's lives, as well as developmental tasks that include the family, from a life-cycle perspective.
*Illustrative imageMidwifery that supports pregnancy and childbirth
The lab conducts education and research so that midwives can care for women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period, as well as for newborns and infants, and work in partnership with women.
*Illustrative imagePediatric nursing that supports children and families
For children and families in a variety of circumstances, the lab considers nursing aimed at maintaining and improving quality of life (QOL), based on a comprehensive understanding of growth, development, and daily life. It also analyzes trends in pediatric health care.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Maternal-Child and Family Health Support Lab consist of Professors, Associate Professors, Lecturers, and Assistant Professors.As of 2026
- ProfessorSeiichi Morokuma
- ProfessorNaoko Hikita
- Associate ProfessorShingo Ueki
- LecturerYoshiko Suetsugu
- LecturerJunko Miyata
- Assistant ProfessorYoko Sato
- Assistant ProfessorHiromi Matsufuji
- Assistant ProfessorEri Nagatomo
- Assistant ProfessorMachiko Omaru
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Newborn infant, Newborn baby girl, Moscow, Russia” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Maternal nursing that supports women across their lives: “Midwife weighing pregnant woman ( )” State Library and Archives of Florida / Public domain (cropped)
- Midwifery that supports pregnancy and childbirth: “Entbindungsbett” Arneb / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Pediatric nursing that supports children and families: “Poston, Arizona. Cheiko Neeno, nurse's aid student at th Poston Hospital, attending a baby patient . . . - NARA - 537102” Francis Stewart / Public domain (cropped)
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