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Global Health Policy Lab (International Research Institute of Disaster Science)
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The lab visualizes global health challenges with data and connects the findings to policy.
AboutAbout the lab
Mapping health challenges and charting a route for policy.
The Global Health Policy Lab studies global-scale health challenges, including antimicrobial resistance, emerging infectious diseases, the spread of lifestyle-related diseases, and humanitarian crises caused by conflict and climate change.
Using data such as one of the world's largest epidemiological datasets, the lab visualizes health challenges in fine detail, and on the basis of that scientific evidence, works with governments and international organizations in Japan and abroad to design policies and support their implementation.
By moving back and forth between data and policy decision-making, the lab aims to generate insights that move the world.
The lab is part of the Division of Disaster Medicine at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University.
Key terms
- Disease burden
- The magnitude of health lost to illness and injury, expressed as the loss caused by death and disability.
- ODA
- Official development assistance. Financial and technical aid provided by the governments of developed countries for the development and welfare of developing countries.
- Excess mortality
- The amount by which the actual number of deaths exceeds the number expected in a normal year.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to create a high-resolution map that accurately reads the current state of global health challenges, and an effective roadmap that guides the future in a better direction. Its research rests on four pillars: analysis of the global burden of disease, evaluation of aid, response to health crises, and assessment of nutrition.
*Illustrative imageAnalyzing disease burden and applying it to policy
As the Japan lead for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, the lab analyzes disease patterns and risk factors in Japan. The results have been used as scientific evidence for evaluating Health Japan 21 and for formulating its next plan.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating international health aid
The lab uses data to evaluate whether each country's official development assistance (ODA) is contributing to solving health challenges in recipient countries. Using its own ODA visualization tool, VODA, it has contributed to the formulation of Japan's Global Health Strategy.
*Illustrative imageHealth crisis management and pandemic response
The lab has a track record in disaster and health crisis management, including examining the health risks to residents after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. During COVID-19, it developed and operated an excess mortality dashboard and led the system for monitoring mortality.
*Illustrative imageInternational assessment of food and nutrition
The head of the lab serves as a member of the expert panel for the Global Nutrition Report, which evaluates nutrition policy worldwide, and is responsible for assessing progress on international nutrition challenges. Through food and nutrition, the lab aims to prevent noncommunicable diseases and extend healthy life expectancy.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorShuhei Nomura
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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: “World map of HIV prevalence, 2023” Our world in data / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Analyzing disease burden and applying it to policy: “Disease-burden-rates-from-cancers” Our World In Data / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating international health aid: “An RAF C-17 aircraft is bound for Nepal on 27 April 2015 loaded with humanitarian aid supplies for victims of the Nepal earthquake. ( )” DFID - UK Department for International Development / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Health crisis management and pandemic response: “7924Typhoon Goni disaster relief operations in Macabebe 08” Judgefloro / CC0 (cropped)
- International assessment of food and nutrition: “Municipal Market of São Paulo city” Wilfredor / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Emergent Medicine Lab (SiRIUS Institute of Medicine)): “Barbara McClintock ( ) shown in her laboratory in 1947” Smithsonian Institution/Science Service; Restored by Adam Cuerden / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Disaster Infectious Diseases Lab (International Research Institute of Disaster Science)): “Airmen conduct emergency medical response exercise (8750214)” U.S. Air Force 380AEW by Senior Airman Sir Wyrick / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Health Behavioral Epidemiology Lab (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization)): “A community health worker conducting a survey in the Korail slum, Bangladesh ( )” DFID - UK Department for International Development / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Global Health and Infectious Diseases Lab): “Scanning electron micrograph of a human H9 T cell infected with HIV virus particles” NIAID / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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