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Healthy Living Environment Creation Lab
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A lab that aims to change homes and towns into environments where people become healthier simply by living in them.
AboutAbout the lab
Living in good health, for life.
The Healthy Living Environment Creation Lab studies how the various environments of the homes and towns where people live affect their health.
Based on the idea of "environmental-improvement preventive medicine," in which improving the environment changes people's behavior and prevents disease, the lab aims to create environments that make people healthier just by living in them.
The lab gathers evidence through epidemiological surveys and live-in experimental houses, and aims for social implementation, putting its research results to use in homes and towns.
Researchers from many fields, including medicine, engineering, UX design, and science, take part.
Key terms
- Epidemiology
- The study of investigating large numbers of people to clarify the relationship between disease or health and the environment and lifestyle that may cause it
- Cohort
- A research method that follows the same group of people and studies them over many years
- Allergen
- A substance that causes allergies; typical examples include foods, dust mites, and pollen
- Social implementation
- Taking knowledge gained through research and incorporating it into actual products, systems, community development, and so on so that it can be used in society
NewsLab news
Survey of allergens in the bedding of infants before weaning foods published in Scientific Reports
Study on the relationship between co-sleeping with pets and well-being published in Clocks & Sleep
Study on the relationship between housing tenure and depressive symptoms published in Mental Health & Prevention
The design of a joint project's café campaign won an iF Design Award
Profile paper on the environmental survey of the children's cohort study published in BMJ Open
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the relationship between health and homes and towns from both engineering and preventive medicine perspectives. It gathers evidence through epidemiological surveys and live-in experimental houses, aiming to put its research results to use in society.
*Illustrative imageHome Environment and Health (Endowed Chair)
As an endowed chair funded by Sekisui House, Ltd., the lab studies the relationship between the home environment and health. In addition to stay-in experiments in experimental houses, since 2022 it has been conducting an epidemiological survey on living environments, lifestyles, and health.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping Environmental Sensors for Epidemiological Surveys
Building on the know-how gained from measuring environments in epidemiological surveys and stay-in experiments, the lab is developing a system that measures various indoor environmental factors related to health and stores the data. The goal is for users to be able to collect data over long periods without discomfort.
*Illustrative imageHousing from Pregnancy and Children's Health
In a mother-child cohort study that began in 2021, the lab continues to measure chemical substances in the home from pregnancy through the early period after birth and for several years afterward. It aims to identify environmental factors related to disease risk in mothers and children.
*Illustrative imageAllergens Where Babies Sleep
This survey examines what kinds of allergens, and how much, are present around babies before they start eating weaning foods, and how these relate to the later development of allergies.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Healthy Living Environment Creation Lab consist of faculty, project researchers, technical assistant, administrative, and secretarial staff, and visiting faculty and researchers.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorNorimichi Suzuki
- Project LecturerKeiichi Shimatani
- Project Assistant ProfessorKoki Takaguchi
- Project Assistant ProfessorKazuya Ogawa
- Project Assistant ProfessorKaori Endo
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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: “Residential neighborhood, Kuringen, Hasselt, 2025” DimiTalen / CC0 (cropped)
- Home Environment and Health (Endowed Chair): “Prefabricated houses on Redhill Drive, Castleford, West Yorkshire (23rd September” Mtaylor848 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Developing Environmental Sensors for Epidemiological Surveys: “AXIS D6310 Air Quality Sensor” Lindiloue / CC0 (cropped)
- Housing from Pregnancy and Children's Health: “Mother and newborn baby, Moscow, Russia” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Allergens Where Babies Sleep: “Living room in apartment of Condomínio do Edifício Zaher, Le Blond, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil” Wilfredor / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental Health Lab): “Mother and Child walking down a path ( )” Ian D. Keating / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nutrition and Metabolic Medicine Lab): “CSIRO ScienceImage 4333 Human nutrition research” division, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Healthy City and Spatial Design Lab): “West Thames Park td ( - Rector Street Pedestrian Bridge” Tdorante10 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Social Preventive Medicine Lab): “Chinatown Elderly Apartments, 23rd Street and Princeton Avenue, Chinatown, Chicago, IL ( )” Warren LeMay from Chicago, IL, United States / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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