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Global Health Lab
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The lab explores health disparities worldwide and access to medical products from a global health perspective.
AboutAbout the lab
Solving health challenges across borders and disciplines
Associate Professor Mami Wakabayashi specializes in global health and studies health challenges rooted in disparities between and within countries.
Through research, practice, and education, the professor aims to contribute to solving health challenges on a global scale.
Research themes include global health diplomacy, official development assistance (ODA), and international organizations, as well as access to medical products such as COVID-19 vaccines, and health disparities with a focus on socioeconomic factors and gender.
The professor became interested in global health through volunteer work in Bangladesh as an undergraduate.
The professor is a Special Participating Faculty member of the Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation and belongs to the Overseas Implementation Division of the Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies.
Key terms
- Global health
- A field also called international health. It deals with health challenges that spread across borders, such as infectious diseases, and with health disparities between countries.
- ODA
- Official development assistance. Public financial aid that a government provides for the development and welfare of developing countries.
- Social epidemiology
- The study of how the uneven distribution of health and disease among people relates to social factors such as income and education.
ResearchResearch themes
Centered on global health, the lab studies health challenges rooted in disparities between and within countries. Its main themes are global health diplomacy, ODA, access to medical products, and health disparities.
*Illustrative imageGlobal Health and Global Health Diplomacy
The lab studies global health through topics such as global health diplomacy, ODA, international organizations, and health care systems. Career development is also listed among its research keywords.
*Illustrative imageAccess to Medical Products
Taking up COVID-19 vaccines and the overseas expansion of medical products, the lab studies them from the perspective of access to medical products.
*Illustrative imageHealth Disparities
From the standpoint of social epidemiology, the lab studies health disparities from perspectives such as socioeconomic factors, gender, and social capital.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorMami Wakabayashi
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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: “Public Health Scholars doing MPH from Edward & Cynthia Institute of Public Health - Yenepoya University” Ginevrajocosa88 / CC0 (cropped)
- Global Health and Global Health Diplomacy: “World Health Organisation six regional offices” AKS471883 / Public domain (cropped)
- Access to Medical Products: “Pharmacie in Paulista Avenue” Wilfredor / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Health Disparities: “The Pacayita Health Post in rural Catarina, Masaya, Nicaragua” Mtran99 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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