Public Health

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Prof. HARUSATO

Current Research Projects

  • Medical disasters and health crisis management (administrative/public health practice)
  • Prevention and social implementation of lifestyle-related diseases (clinical medicine, health literacy)
  • Global health research in the Indo-Pacific and Africa (field research)
  • Immunological impacts of environmental factors (experimental research)
  • Mental health in the community (school and occupational health)

Recent Publications

  • Association between excess mortality due to COVID-19, full vaccination coverage, smoking, hypertension, and gross domestic product per capita/purchasing power parity across 10 Southeast Asian Countries
    Mu'syadzwinna Binti Midon, Nlandu Roger Ngatu, Kanae Kanda, Tomohiro Hirao, Nobuyuki Miyatake, Kenji Wada, Akira Nishiyama
    IJID Regions. 2025; 14, 100570; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijregi.2025.100570 
  • Oral exposure to micro- and nanoplastics generated from polyethylene terephthalate suppresses acute intestinal damage in vivo
    Fumiya Okano, Akihito Harusato, Yoshitaka Nakanishi, Hirohito Abo, Lucie Etienne-Mesmin, Masashi Kato, Yoshito Itoh
    Journal of Hazardous Materials. 2025 in press.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.139809
  • A Comparison of Sleep Duration Accuracy Between Questionnaire and Accelerometer in Middle Childhood
    Kanae Kanda, Tomohiro Hirao, Nlandu R. Ngatu, Akitsu Murakami, Yusuke Yamadori, Katsunori Yokoyama, Yoichi Hoshikawa, Tetsuo Minamino
    Cureus. 2023 Oct 17;15(10): e47236. doi:10.7759/cureus.47236

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