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Social and Preventive Epidemiology Lab
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The lab uses epidemiology to study the relationship between what and how people eat and their health.
AboutAbout the lab
Clarifying the link between eating habits and health through data
The Social and Preventive Epidemiology Lab focuses on nutritional epidemiology.
Nutritional epidemiology is a field that uses epidemiological methods to clarify the relationship between what and how people eat and their health.
The lab studies how to assess diet itself, and uses those methods to investigate the relationships between dietary habits and a range of health problems.
The lab was established when the Department of Public Health (School of Public Health) was founded, and Prof. Murakami was appointed Professor in August 2023.
Key terms
- Epidemiology
- The study of how health conditions and diseases occur in populations, measuring them quantitatively and statistically analyzing the factors involved
- Nutritional epidemiology
- A general term for epidemiological research that takes nutrition and diet as its central theme
- Dietary assessment methods
- Methods for finding out what and how much people usually eat, using tools such as questionnaires
NewsLab news
Paper on a new indicator for measuring the diversity of food intake published in Frontiers in Nutrition
Paper examining the validity of a nutrient profiling score using urinary biomarkers published in Nutrients
Paper estimating food portion sizes by children's sex and age published in British Journal of Nutrition
Paper on the "meal rhythms" of Japanese people published in British Journal of Nutrition
Paper on the validity of a dietary questionnaire for elementary, junior high, and high school students published in British Journal of Nutrition
ResearchResearch themes
Social preventive epidemiology is a field that uses epidemiological methods to clarify the relationships between various phenomena in society (including individual lifestyle habits) and disease, and explores ways to apply those findings to prevention. Centered on nutritional epidemiology, the lab conducts nationwide surveys of eating behaviors and dietary habits and develops new dietary assessment methods.
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MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, Professors Emeritus, students in the Department of Public Health, and faculty from affiliated divisions (Nutritional Epidemiology and Behavioral Nutrition).As of 2026
- ProfessorKentaro MurakamiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorNana ShinozakiPublications ↗
- Project ProfessorKumi Okubo
- Project Assistant ProfessorRyoko Tajima
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- Top image: “Teishoku - traditional Japanese set meal at New Chitose Airport (97)” Savannah Rivka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Nutritional Epidemiology: “Abwaage der Zutaten” Wald1siedel / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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