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Department of Hygiene
Members（As of April 2024）
| Professor | Akira Fujiyoshi |
| Associate Professor | Aya Higashiyama |
| Assistant Professor | Shigeki Takemura |
| Harumitsu Suzuki | |
| Graduate student (Doctoral Degree program) |
Naoki Aono |
| Kuniko Yuri | |
| Yuri Ouchi | |
| Hikaru Ogata | Graduate student (Doctoral Degree program) |
Bassole Epse Brou Maggy Audrey Murielle |
| Part-time lecturer | Naoko Nagai |
| Toshio Kawai | |
| Ikuharu Morioka | |
| Kouichi Yoshimasu | |
| Doctoral research fellow | Taro Tomura |
| Katsushi Yokoi | |
| Hideto Takase | |
| Research student | Masahito Uchino |
| Research support personnel | Shizu Nishimoto |
Activities
Conceived in disease prevention and health promotion, the Department of Hygiene, a discipline of social medicine, is interested in a variety of research areas including environmental health, occupational health, mental health, school health, community health and care welfare, mainly via field works. Especially, the Department has been participating in special health examinations for hand-arm vibration syndrome among vibrating tool operators in forestry for more than 30 years. Based on these activities, the Department has been continuously engaged in the research of hand-arm vibration syndrome.
Research interests
- Epidemiological study on determinants of lifestyle-related diseases including atherosclerotic diseases
- Cognitive decline/Dementia and their relationship with cardiovascular diseases
- Influences of cigarette/tobacco smoking (including new types of tobacco products) upon human health and society
- Determinants of longevity and successful aging (utilizing secondary data)
- Elucidation of pathology in hand-arm vibration syndro