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Prof. Masahiro HASHIZUME
Professor Masahiro HASHIZUME
橋爪 真弘
TMGH Modules
Background
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Epidemiology I, co-organizer
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Epidemiology II, co-organizer
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Statistics for population Health I, co-organizer
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Statistics for population Health II, co-organizer
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Global Environmental Health, lecturer
Masahiro Hashizume is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the Institute of Tropical
Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan. He had his residency training in paediatrics in Tokyo, 1996-1999. He then received his master’s degree in international health for the study of nutritional epidemiology in the Aral Sea region of Kazakhstan (Univ. of Tokyo, 2001) and PhD for time series study of the relationship between rainfall and diarrhoea in Bangladesh (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2007). Dr. Hashizume’s research has centered on epidemiological studies to estimate the impact of environmental factors including climate and air pollution on health in Asia, Africa and other parts of the world. He has been the founding chair of the Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University since 2012. In 2014, he became an Editor-in-Chief of Tropical Medicine and Health, the official journal of the Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine.
MD, MSc, PhD
Affiliations
Research Areas
Dr. Hashizume's research interests cover most of environmental epidemiology. Current substantive research topics of interest, on which we work in collaboration with both international and Japanese colleagues, focus mainly on the impacts of climate variability, climate change and air pollution.
Ongoing projects include:
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Effects of flooding and weather on cholera, acute respiratory infections and other infectious diseases in Bangladesh.
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Ocean-atmosphere interaction phenomenon including Indian Ocean Dipole and its association with malaria and cholera in East Africa.
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Health effects of climate change and Asian dust in East Asia (GRL Project).
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Development of the malaria early warning system in South Africa (SATREPS iDEWS Project) (link).
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Temperature-mortality association under the Multi-City Multi-Country (MCC) Collaborative Research Network (link)
Disciplines
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Epidemiology
Other Areas of Interest
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Statistics
Countries/Regions
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Bangladesh
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China
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Japan
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Kenya
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South Africa
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South Korea
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Taiwan
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UK
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Vietnam
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Multi-City Multi-Country (MCC) network (link)
Selected Publications
Time series regression model for infectious disease and weather.
Imai C, Armstrong B, Chalabi Z, Mangtani P, Hashizume M. Environ Res. 2015;142:319-327.
Hashizume M, Nakagomi T, Nakagomi O. Trop Med Health. 2015;43(3):177-181
Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multi-country study.
Gasparrini A, Guo Y, Hashizume M, Lavigne E, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Tobias A, Tong S, Rocklov J, Forsberg B, Leone M, De Sario M, Bell ML, Guo YLL, Wu CF, Kan H, Yi SM, de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho M, Saldiva PH, Honda Y, Kim H, Armstrong B. The Lancet. 2015;386(9991):369-375
Temporal variation in heat-mortality associations: a multicountry study.
Gasparrini A, Guo Y, Hashizume M, Kinney PL, Petkova EP, Lavigne E, Zanobetti A, Schwartz JD, Tobias A, Leone M, Tong S, Honda Y, Kim H, Armstrong BG. Environ Health Perspect. 2015;123:1200-1207.
Community trial on heat related-illness prevention behaviors and knowledge for the elderly.
Takahashi N, Nakao R, Ueda K, Ono M, Kondo M, Honda Y, Hashizume M. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2015;12(3):3188-3214.