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Public Health Nursing Lab
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A public health nursing lab exploring care that supports people's autonomous lives.

AboutAbout the lab
Supporting people's autonomous lives through care
The Public Health Nursing Lab explores care and social innovation that support people in living autonomously while remaining loosely connected to one another.
Its mission is to send out researchers and public health nurses who can lead and carry out national and global health policy.
Its direction is interdisciplinary research that merges with other fields, and building knowledge through both theoretical research and social implementation.
Graduate students include those in the Public Health Nurse Training Course and those in the Researcher Training Course.
Key terms
- Public health nurse
- A nursing professional who supports the health of people in the community, working at public health centers, local governments, and similar organizations.
- Social implementation
- Turning findings from research into a form that can be used in real communities and settings, and spreading it.
- Interdisciplinary research
- Research that combines the knowledge and methods of multiple fields.
NewsLab news
Paper by a master's student and assistant professors published in Journal of International Health
Paper by Assistant Professor Matsunaga and colleagues published in Cureus
Paper by an alumnus or alumna, an assistant professor, a professor, and colleagues published in Occupational Health
Paper by Assistant Professor Hara and colleagues published in PLoS One
Paper by Professor Omiya and colleagues published in Psychiatry International
ResearchResearch themes
From the perspective of public health nursing, the lab explores care and social innovation that support people in living autonomously while staying loosely connected to one another. Each faculty member works on topics such as frailty prevention among older adults, prevention of the need for long-term care, public health nurse activities during disasters, global health, and the occupational values of nurses.
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Members of the Public Health Nursing lab consist of faculty, academic researchers, master's students, graduation research students (fourth-year undergraduates), administrative staff, and part-time lecturers (research supervision).As of 2026
- ProfessorTomoko Omiya
- Assistant ProfessorAtsushi Matsunaga
- Assistant ProfessorKumiko Nakano
- Assistant ProfessorYukari Hara
- Assistant ProfessorMegumu Iwamoto
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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: “French Hill visits Health Connections Little Rock Franklin Community Health Center 01” Office of French Hill, United States Congress / Public domain (cropped)
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