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Professor Taro YAMAMOTO

山本  太郎

MD, PhD, PhD

(Igaku and Kokusaihokenngaku)

TMGH Modules

  • Health policy

Background

  • Medical doctor.

  • Emergency medicine by training

  • Two PhDs: 
    Igaku and Kokusaihokenngaku (Medical Science and International Health Science)

Affiliations

Prof. Taro YAMAMOTO

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        +81 - 95 - 819 - 7869

Website (Japanese)

Department of International Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN),

Nagasaki University

Research Areas

  • International Health

Disciplines

  • International Health

Other Areas of Interest

  • Evolutionary Medicine

  • Medical History

Countries/Regions

  • Japan

  • China

  • Haiti

  • Nepal

  • Mexico

  • Peru

Select Publications

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Life, Health and Community in the massive Tsunami affected town in Japan.

Taro Yamamoto, Masaya Kato and Susumu Shirabe. Lancet. 2011 July 23; Vol 378;318

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Weight gain in survivors living in temporary housing in the tsunami-stricken area during the recovery phase following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

Shuko Takahashi, Yuki Yonekura, Ryohei Sasaki, Yukari Yokoyama, Kozo Tanno, Kiyomi Sakata, Akira Ogawa, Seichiro Kobayashi, and Taro Yamamoto. PLoS ONE (in press) 2016.

Maternal Overweight/Obesity Characteristics and Child Anthropometric Status in Jos, Nigeria.

Collins John, Tomo Ichikawa, Halima Abdu, Isaac Ocheke, Udochukwu Diala Virginia Modise-Letsatsi, Takayuki Wada, Seline Okolo, Taro Yamamoto. Nigerian Medical Journal. 2015 Jul-Aug; 56(4): 236-9.

doi: 10.4103/0300-1652.165031.

Steps towards preventive HIV treatment in Fujian, China:Problems identified via an assessment of initial antiretroviral threrapy provision.

Pincang Xia, Junko Okumura, Pingping Yan, Meirong Xie, Shouji Wu, Meizhu Zhuang, Jian Zheng, Chunyang Zhang, Masaya Kato, Guoxi Cai, Taro Yamamoto. PLos One. vol.8, No.9: pp76483, Sept 2013.

Climate Change, Population Immunity, and Hyperendemicity in the Transmission Threshold of Dengue.

Mika Oki, Taro Yamamoto. PLoS One. 2012;7(10): e48258.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048258.(IF=4.092)

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