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GLOBAL HEALTH WORKSHOP

Hosted By Osaka University

October 30-November 1, 2015

LIST OF PRESENTERS & MODERATORS

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Anthony Abustan [email protected] University of the

East Ramon

Magsaysay

Memorial

Medical Center

Anthony Abustan is a registered nurse who specializes

in global health, public health & disaster risk reduction

and management. He finished a course program in

Public Health, Disaster and Humanitarian Response

under the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University

and Chinese University of Hong Kong for Disaster and

Medical Humanitarian Response. He is currently in a

Doctor of Public Health program with a major in Health

& Disaster Management at Our Lady of Fatima

University – Main Campus. He also finished a Master of

Science in Public Health at the University of the East

Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center –

Graduate School. He received the Philippine Council for

Health Research & Development Research Grant. He

also did a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Far Eastern

University – Manila. He is a Faculty of Master of

Science in Public Health Program (University of the

East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center –

Graduate School), Technical Support Writer (Asia

Pacific E-Journal on Health Social Sciences), External

Referee (Philippine Journal of Public Administration)

and the Administrative & Training Division Head and

Disaster Risk Reduction / Climate Change Adaptation

Research (DRR/CCA) Supervisor at the Marikina City

Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Office. His

fields of interest include global health, public health,

ASEAN integration, policy development, total quality

management, and disaster risk reduction &

management.

Richard Adanu [email protected] Ghana Richard Adanu is the Dean of the School of Public

Health, University of Ghana and Professor of Women’s

Reproductive Health. He is a specialist obstetrician

gynaecologist and women’s reproductive health

epidemiologist. He graduated from the University of

Ghana Medical School and completed his postgraduate

training in obstetrics and gynecology at the Korle Bu

Teaching Hospital in Ghana. He has a Master of Public

Health (MPH) degree from the Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research covers

epidemiology of obstetric and gynaecological disorders

in Ghana, family planning, cervical cancer screening

and maternal morbidity.

Azimatun Noor

Aizuddin

[email protected] National

University of

Malaysia

Azimatun Noor Aizuddin is a Senior Lecturer in

Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine,

UKM. She obtained her Medical Degree from USM in

1997 and Master Community Medicine (Hospital and

Health Management) from UKM in 2006. She is a PhD

student under the Faculty of Medicine, UKM

collaborating with United Nations University –

International Institutes of Global Health (UNU=IIGH),

under Professor Dato’ Dr. Syed Mohamed Aljunid

supervision on Assessing Ability and Willingness to pay

for healthcare among Malaysian. She has served

Ministry of Health, Malaysia for several years in various

fields before becoming an academician in the University

Kebangsaan Malaysia. Her main interest is in Health

Economics and Financing & Health Management and

Quality. She has involved in the health economy, health

financing, health management and health quality

researches with universities and MOH. She is an

assistant editor for the International Journal Public

Health Research (IJPHR) and reviewer of a few journals

locally and abroad. She has published and presented a

number of papers in her fields. She holds a position of

an honorary secretary for the Malaysia Health

Economics Association (MAHEA), life member of the

Malaysian Public Health Physicians Association and

member of MySPOR (Malaysian Pharmacoeconomics

and Outcome Research Group).

Augustine

Ankomah

[email protected] Ghana Augustine Ankomah has a PhD in Applied Population

Research from the University of Exeter in the United

Kingdom. Between 1992 and 2001, he taught

Reproductive Health in three British Universities:

University of Exeter; University of Wales at Swansea;

and University of Teesside. Prof. Ankomah has blend of

academic, programme implementation, research and

consultancy experience in HIV and reproductive health

including family planning and maternal health. In 2001

Dr Ankomah joined Population Services International

(PSI), an international public health NGO headquartered

in Washington DC, and worked for ten years in Nigeria

and East Africa. During the period he served in various

senior level capacities for PSI in West and East Africa.

In Nigeria, he was the Senior Technical Advisor for

Research and Behaviour Change Communication. In

East Africa, he was the Regional Technical Advisor

(based in Nairobi) for a large scale multi-country project

in promoting long-lasting family planning products. For

all the projects, he provided technical lead and oversight

over the design and evaluation components. In 2011,

Prof Ankomah returned to Ghana and took up

appointment as the Head of Department for Population,

Family and Reproductive Health, School of Public

Health, University of Ghana. His current research area

lies in adolescent reproductive health, HIV prevention,

particularly among at-risk populations. Over the past 25

years, Prof Ankomah has conducted individual research,

led international multi-centre collaborative research,

published in several peer-reviewed international journals

and presented at several international conferences. He

has considerable experience in teaching, supervising and

examining post graduate students.


Atsuko

Aoyama

[email protected] Nagoya

University

Atsuko Aoyama is the head of Department of Public

Health and Health Systems, Nagoya University School

of Medicine, since 2001. Her research subjects include:

(1) non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors in

low and middle income countries; (2) health policies

and health systems in developing countries; and (3)

gender and health. She also teaches public health to

graduate students and undergraduate medical students.

She sometimes advises local health agencies regarding

NCD prevention strategies, and international

development agencies such as the Global Fund to Fight

AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Japan International

Cooperation Agency (JICA), etc. for monitoring and

preparing health sector assistance programs. She was

awarded M.D. and Ph.D. at Nagoya University School

of Medicine. Before entering international public health

career, she studied pathology and cell biology, focusing

on retroviruses and cancer metastasis. Then she

practiced obstetrics and gynecology as a certified

clinical specialist in a large public hospital in Japan.

Prior to joining Nagoya University, she worked for the

World Bank as a health specialist, as well as Japanese

bilateral assistance programs in the health sector. She

contributed to develop health sector programs in

countries such as Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Pakistan,

Cambodia, and Thailand.

Ririn Arminsih W [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Ririn Arminsih holds a DDS from Faculty of Dentistry,

Universitas Indonesia, a Master of Public Health from

Faculty of Public Health Universitas Indonesia, and a

Doctor of Epidemiology, from Faculty of Public Health

Universitas Indonesia. She is a lecturer since 1988.

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Sachiko Baba [email protected] Osaka

University

Sachiko Baba, MD, Ph.D. is Vice Director of Center for

International Relations, Osaka University Graduate

School of Medicine. She graduated from Osaka

University Medical School in 2004. In 2008 she was

appointed Assistant Professor of Center for International

Relations to promote education and research activities

with overseas institutions. Her consistent attitude toward

reproductive epidemiology drove her to work as a post-

doc a Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in 2011-12.

Rajasekhar

Balasubramanian


University of

Singapore

Prof. Bala obtained his Ph.D. from the Rosenstiel

School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University

of Miami, USA and worked at Brookhaven National

Laboratory and at the New York State Department of

Health as Research Scientist prior to joining NUS in

1996. For the past two decades he has performed

research on air quality, health risk assessment,

environmental toxicology and regional environmental

issues in Southeast Asia; he is the author of over 165

scientific papers in these areas including several

scholarly review articles. He has received several

awards honoring his work including Alan Berman

Research Publication Award from the US Department of

the Navy in 2014. Prof. Bala has led, or helped to lead,

multiple air quality field studies in Asia.

Muhammad Abdul

Basit Ahmad

Tajudin


University of

Malaysia

Muhammad Abdul Basit Ahmad Tajudin has a

background in environmental health. He is currently

focusing on research in the field of environmental

epidemiology.

Besral [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Besral was born on 31st January, 1972 in West

Sumatera Province. Indonesia. After finishing his

bachelor degree in Faculty of Public Health, University

of Indonesia, Jakarta in 1994, he completed his Master

of Science (majoring on Biostatistics and Epidemiology)

in the College of Public Health, University of the

Philippines, Manila in 2000. He completed Doctor of

Public Health in the University of Indonesia Jakarta in

2011.Since 1997 he has been working as a lecturer in

the Department of Biostatistics and Population Studies,

Faculty of Public Health University of Indonesia. At the

same time, he is also working as a researcher for the

Center for Health Research, University of Indonesia.

He was appointed as Secretary of the Department of

Biostatistics and Population Studies, University of

Indonesia, from year 2004 to 2007 and Chairman of the

Department from 2014 to now. He teaches the graduate

and undergraduate students in the Faculty of Public

Health University of Indonesia. His research focuses on

maternal & child health and health information systems.

Mahfuzur Rahman

Bhuiyan

[email protected] Campaign for

Tobacco Free

Kids, National

Heart

Foundation and

Research

Institute,

Bangladesh

Mahfuzur Rahman Bhuiyan received an MBBS from Sir

Salimullah Medical College under Dhaka University

then completed MPH from The University of

Melbourne, Australia. Later he did a post-graduate

Diploma on Development Planning from National

Academy for Planning and Development, Dhaka. He

also participated in a certificate course on Global

Tobacco Control in Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School

of Public Health, USA. He is now working in Campaign

for Tobacco Free Kids, Bangladesh Chapter as a Grants

Manager. He has also worked at the National Heart

Foundation Hospital & Research Institute as Project

Officer and at the World Health Organization as a

National Consultant. He has been working in the public

health sector for more than 11 years and has been

involved in many research activities and nationally

representative surveys like the Global Adult Tobacco

Survey 2009 Bangladesh, the National NCD Risk

Factors Survey 2010, the National Survey on Hearing

Impairment in the Bangladesh population, and the

Evaluation of Baby Alive Media Campaign. His

research interests are in tobacco control.


Jaime Javier Cantu

Pompa

[email protected] Tech de

Monterrey

Jaime Cantu is currently a medical student at

Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Medicine, in

Monterrey Mexico. He is completing his last year of

medical formation doing social service.

Erlinda Castro-

Palaganas

[email protected] University of the

Philippines

Erlinda Castro is a professor of management, an

internationally distinguished and respected nurse leader,

researcher and academician. She is a pioneer in

qualitative nursing research and a multi-awarded health

research mentor. She is a Professor at University of the

Philippines - Baguio where she excels in teaching,

research and extension work. She is a nurse who has

opted to commit herself to serve the Filipino people. She

is a staunch advocate of people's rights and welfare -a

people's nurse.

Chang-Chuan Chan [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Chang-Chuan Chan is the Professor of Institute of

Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, and the

Associate Dean and Director of the Global Health

Center at CPH, NTU. Prof. Chan is a Steering

Committee Member of the APRU Global Health

Program, 2014-2016. He serves as an academic

counselor of International Society for Environmental

Epidemiology, 2015-2017. He is also chair-elected of

ISEE Asia chapter since 2015. Prof. Chan serves as the

Chairman of Taiwan Chapter of SRA since 2009. Prof.

Chan has led over 100 research projects on

environmental epidemiology, air pollution exposure and

health assessments, and global health issues. He has

published over 160 scientific papers in SCI journals.

Prof. Chan established Global Health Practicum in

Malawi and São Tomé for NTU students, and

educational exchanges with universities in Japan, Korea,

and the US, and started PhD in Global Health Program

at CPH since 2012. He was an international participant

in the European Union’s FP7 project, ESCAPE, and is

currently conducting international environmental

epidemiological studies on air pollution in Malaysia,

Thailand, Mongolia, India.

Angela Chang [email protected] University of

Macau

Angela Chang (Ph.D., Union Institute & University,

USA) is Assistant Professor at University of Macau,

Macau, China, Special Administrative Region. She

works in the advertising profession as a marketing

researcher before she joins the academia. Her research

areas are about audience studies, eye-tracking, cross

cultural consumer studies, and health communication.

She has published over 20 journal articles and book

chapters and presented over 50 conference papers. She

is the author of Advertising Behavior: The

Contemporary Unwritten Rules, Principles, and Cultures

of Advertising as Practiced in Taiwan (Chinese Culture

University Press, 2003) and contributor to The Ashgate

Research Companion to Fan Cultures (Ashgate

Publication, 2014) as well as the chapter contributor of

Advertising and childhood obesity in China (Springer,

2014). She is the external researcher on health and

Communication studies at Lugano University,

Switzerland and scholarship/grant holder at Austria and

Taiwan’s Universities. Her articles won several top

papers for Excellence in China’s top universities.

Hung-Lun Chang [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Hung-Lun Chang is a graduate student of Institute of

Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, National

Taiwan University (NTU). He received B.S. in public

health from Taipei Medical University (TMU), Taipei,

Taiwan in 2013. He was acting member of medical

services team from 2011 to 2013. He has been serving as

president of graduate student association of College of

Public Health, NTU in 2014. His research interests are

health risk perception, occupational health,

nanotoxicology and global health.


Chi-Hsin Sally Chen [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Chi-Hsin Sally Chen is a second year PhD student from

National Taiwan University. Her research interests are

the health impacts of environmental exposure, and her

thesis topic is focused on the metabolomics study of

petrochemical pollutants exposure.

Chen-Chieh Chen [email protected]

National Taiwan

University

Chen-Chieh Chen is a first-year master’s student in the

department of epidemiology and preventive medicine at

National Taiwan University. His research interests

include chronic diseases, especially the risk factors of

type 2 diabetes. He earned his bachelor’s degree in

health promotion and health education at National

Taiwan Normal University in 2014. He is now working

on his master thesis on the topic of the association

between vitamin D deficiency and the risk of type 2

diabetes.

Mengqi Chen

[email protected] Fudan University As the Outstanding Graduate of Nanjing Medical

University, CHEN Mengqi participated in lots of

voluntary activities in assisting migrant workers'

children and completed a one year internship experience

in the local hospital in Yixing City, Jiangsu Province.

During the last six years, she has shown great interest in

the field of public health and now is a master student

majoring in Maternal and Child Health in Fudan

University.

Szu-Ying Chen [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Szu-Ying Chen is now the attending physician of

Department of Critical Care Medicine, E-Da hospital.

He is also a Assistant Professor of the College of

Humanities and Management, Fooyin University and

also at National Taiwan University. Dr. Chen

specialized in clinical medicine and environmental

epidemiology. His research interest involves the health

impacts of ambient air pollution. He has been studying

the effects of ambient air pollution on cardiovascular

system, including the cardiovascular morbidity, blood

pressure, and other cardiovascular parameters in

response to both short- and long-term air pollution

exposures.

Ying-An Chen [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Ying-An Chen (or Angie) is from Taiwan and is now a

graduate student in the Institute of Environmental

Health at National Taiwan University. Her major is

tropical medicine and vector control. She went to Sao

Tome and Principe in Africa to do malaria control

practicum training. Her research interests focus on

malaria.

Wan-Lin Chiang

[email protected] National Taiwan

University

Wan-Lin Chiang is currently a fifth year PhD candidate

in Institute of Health Policy and Management at the

National Taiwan University under Professor Tung-liang

Chiang. Her doctoral work focus on the topic of child

poverty and child health. She holds MS in Public Health

and BS in Nursing both from the National Cheng Kung

University.


Kuo-Liong (KL)

Chien


University

Kuo-Liong Chien received his Medical Degree from

Medical College, National Taiwan University in 1988.

After training a cardiologist in National Taiwan

University in 1995, he undertook the graduate course

and received the PhD degree in College of Public

Health, National Taiwan University in 2000, majored in

genetic epidemiology and cardiovascular epidemiology.

Now as the professor and director in the Institute of

Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, he conducts a

prospective cohort study in a community for

cardiovascular disease risk factor prevention. He has

published more than 200 scientific papers on

cardiovascular diseases, including coronary disease,

stroke, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and hypertension

prevention. His contribution to public health is on non-

communicable disease (NCD) management and

prevention in Taiwan, and his interests in NCD as

actively attending the annual meeting of AWI (APRU

World Institute) as the representative of National

Taiwan University College of Public Health and the

annual meeting of Asia Pacific Academic Consortium

for Public Health (APACPH). He is currently the chief

executive in the Taiwan Clinical Trial Statistical Center,

sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, to

support the clinical trial protocol development and data

management for disease-related consortiums in Taiwan.

Yi-Chen Chou [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Yi-Chen Chou a master student from National

Taiwan University. She is learning about global

environmental issues in graduate school. Her main

research subject is air pollution in the ambient

environment, especially the concentration of PAHs in

particulate phase (PM2.5). She is also learning about

receptor models for environmental monitoring and

source apportionment.

Er Ah Choy [email protected] National

University of

Malaysia

Er Ay Choy received a PhD in Environmental Sciences

from Wageningen University, The Netherlands. She also

holds a M.Arts (Economics) from Universiti

Kebangsaan Malaysia and a Bachelor of Arts

(Economics) (with Honours) from Universiti

Kebangsaan Malaysia. Her fields of expertise are: 1.

Policy and Environmental Management; 2. Ecological

Modernization; 3. Ecotourism; 4. Environment

Economics. She is now the Head of Quality Assurance

FSSK (2012- present). She also held the Chief Science

Program Development, PPSPP, FSSK, UKM (2011-

2012) and the Chairman of the Unit for Economic and

Management Studies, FSP, UKM (1997-2001). She has

worked as an Assistant Lecturer at UKM and Sunway

College (Monash University). She is now a Professor at

UKM in the School of Social, Development &

Environmental Studies. Her professional skills include:

1. MyClimate 2008; 2. Writers Association of Malaysia

(member of CWAM); 3. Member: Malaysian Social

Science Association; 4. International Center for Asian

Studies (ICAS) Fellowship / Membership; 5. Malaysian

Society of Environmental Epidemiology (MYSEE); 6.

ERNASIA NETWORK.

Tzu-Hung Chuang [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Tzu-Hung Chuang is a graduate student at the Institute of

Health Policy and Management, National Taiwan

University. She will present a poster which is related to

her master’s thesis. She is concerned with health policy

decision-making.

Pei-Hua Chung


University

Pei-Hua Chung is a PhD student of 5 grade. She has a

background in healthcare management and moved into

health policy and management in 2008. Since then she

has concerned about occupational health and safety. Her

research interests including work-related injury and

illness, mental health of injured workers, social

inequality of injured workers.

I Wayan Darwata [email protected] Warmadewa

University

I Wayan Darwata, MD, MPH, was retired from the

Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University in 2010 as

Associate Professor of Public Health. Since then he has

been associated with the Faculty of Medicine

Warmadewa University in Denpasar Bali (Indonesia) as

Associate Professor in Public Health and Vice Dean of

internal affairs. His main research interests include health

in elderly and community-based health system.


Kartika Anggun

Dimarsetio

[email protected] University of

Indonesia

Kartika Anggun Dimarsetio is a junior lecturer in Health

Education and Behavioral Science Department, Faculty

of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia. “Tika” has

involved in several researches and activities related to

tobacco prevention program. When she was

undergraduate student, she lead a students’ movement to

advocate UI’s rector to sign Smoke-Free Campus Policy.

Her master thesis used Structural Equation Model to

describe the smoking behavior pattern among emerging

adulthood (18-25 years old) in Indonesia. She also

involved in collaboration study between SEATCA and

FPH UI for describing tobacco industry compliance on

PHW packaging. Tika also active in planning,

implementation, and evaluation of pilot project Not On

Tobacco program (Smoking cessation for high school

students) in Depok City funded by UI. Since 5 month

ago, she is co-leader for pilot project on peer educator

program funded by UI. She is currently working to assure

the sustainability of this project and is assisting the DHO

of Depok City to earmark tobacco tax for implementing

and scaling-up this program. As Vice General Secretary

of ISPHE (Indonesian Society for Health Promotion and

Education), she was involved in advocacy project of

earmarking tobacco excise on several districts and cities

in West Java funded by Health Bridge Canada.

Lassie Fitria [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Lassie Fitria is a graduate student in environmental

Health at the Faculty of Public Health, University of

Indonesia. She is also a member of the Graduate Student

Association of the Faculty of Public Health. She works as

an Assistant Research and Teaching Assistant in the

Occupational Health and Safety Department.

Makoto Fujii [email protected] Osaka University Makoto Fujii is a student at the Osaka University

Graduate School of Medicine (Suita city, Osaka) since

Apr. 2014 in the Master of Science in Health Science

program. Prior to this, he received his bachelor of science

in nursing from the University of Shiga Prefecture

(Hikone city, Shiga) in 2009. He works at the Saiseikai

Senri Hospital (Suita city, Osaka). He is a registered

nurse and public health nurse.

Qian Gao [email protected] Peking

University

Qian Gao is a student in the Department of Social

Medicine and Health Education at the School of Public

Health, Peking University in Beijing. In October 2013,

she took part in the World Health Summit in Berlin. In

2013 she also participated in the China Health Forum

"Young Leaders on China-Africa Collaboration Get

Ready to Lead.” She has several publications focusing on

universal health care and elderly long-term care.

Junfei Guo [email protected] Fudan University Junfei Guo is a graduate student at Fudan University in

the Key Laboratory and the School of Public Health. She

has been involved in studies related to child nutrition and

health in the Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene.

Up until now she has published a paper, “Lessons on the

interventions of child malnutrition in China” in the

Chinese journal of Child Health Care. Now she is

involved in the GHSP-OP1-02 project and doing research

on breastfeeding interventions in China.


Ella Nurlaela Hadi [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Ella Hadi holds a DDS from the Faculty of Dentistry,

Universitas Indonesia, as well as an MSPH and a DrPH

from Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia

She is a Lecturer in the Dept. of Health Education and

Behavioral Sciences, Univ. Indonesia, majoring in Health

Promotion, Research Methodology (Quantitative and

Qualitative), Health Communication, Training and

Education. Her research areas are: reproductive health

(maternal-neonatal and child health, family planning),

communicable disease (HIV-AIDS, TB, malaria,

diarrhea, acute respiratory infection and pneumonia).

Noran N Hairi [email protected] University of

Malaya

Noran N Hairi [MBBS, MPH, MPH (Epidemiology),

PhD] is an Associate Professor in the Department of

Social and Preventive Medicine. She served for several

years with the Ministry of Health, Malaysia before

becoming an academic in the University of Malaya in

2004. Her interest in chronic diseases, geriatrics and

gerontology led to her active involvement in several

large-scale projects such as PEACE (Prevent Elder

Abuse and negleCt initiativE), STeMM (Spatio-

Temporal Modelling and Meta-analysis), MELoR

(Malaysia Elder Longitudinal Research), CLUSTer

(Clustering of Lifestyle risk factors and Understanding its

association with Stress on health and wellbeing among

school Teachers) and HELP (Health promotion,

Education and Lifestyle interventions in special

Populations). Noran has published widely in peer-

reviewed journals, book chapters and editorials. She has

served as the Head of Julius Centre University of Malaya

(Centre of Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence Based

Medicine) from 2011 – 2014.

Indri Hapsari [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Indri Hapsari Susilowati is a lecturer in Occupational

Health and Safety Department, Faculty of Public Health,

Universitas Indonesia. Her research interests in

Ergonomics, aging study, and safety transportation, She

completed her Doctor of Philosophy from Kyushu

University researching on the role of visual, cognitive,

and physical motor skill as risk factors for elderly

drivers. One of her award was got Award AusAid IndII

Road Safety Initiative Improved Performance of Road

Safety in 2013.

Tutik Sri Hariyati [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Tutik Sri Hariyati is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Nursing,

Universitas Indonesia. Her research interests are nursing

management, technology and nursing informatics.

Budi Haryanto [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Budi Haryanto, MSPH, MSc is an Associate Professor

and former chair of the Department of Environmental

Health - Faculty of Public Health (2004-2011) and Head

of Research Division of the Research Center for Climate

Change University of Indonesia (2010-present). Dr.

Haryanto is a Board of Directors of the Pacific Basin

Consortium on Environment and Health 2008-2017. Dr.

Haryanto has participated in numerous environmental

epidemiology studies. In addition to research on health

effects in children of air pollution, including lead, PM

2.5, nano-particles, and biological exposures, he is also

interested in the effects of magnetic fields on human

health, community trial of calcium supplement

intervention to reduce children's blood lead levels and

antioxidant intervention to reduce sick building

syndrome among professionals working in high buildings

in Jakarta. Most recently, he has actively contributed to

the studies and development of policy and action plan of

health adaptation to climate change.

Miyuki Hasegawa [email protected]

Osaka University Miyuki Hasegawa has a MMedSc and is a Ph.D. student

of Department of Public Health, Grad School of

Medicine in Osaka University. Her research focuses on

epidemiology and feasible prevention for obesity and

obesity-oriented Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs).

She dedicate on collaboration research to address

serious health issue in Republic of Palau whose faces

high-prevalence of obesity and NCDs. She is strongly

interested in global health through intern experience

WHO HQ and field trips to foreign countries.

Helda [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Helda, M.Kes. was born in Bukittinggi Indonesia. She is a

lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology at the

School of Public Health, University of Indonesia. She

graduated from the doctoral program in epidemiology at

the University of Indonesia in 2013.

Milla Herdayati [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Milla Herdayati is on the Faculty of Public Health,

University of Indonesia in Biostatistics and Population

Studies.

Thi Hien Ho

[email protected] Hanoi Thi Hien Ho is a lecturer at the Hanoi School of Public

Health. She has a PhD in Public Health and Community

Medicine from the University of New South Wales,

Sydney. Prof. Hien has 18 years of experience in doing

research on health issues especially injection drug use

and HIV risk, including having worked in both Sydney

and Vietnam. She has national and international

publications on health issues particularly HIV/AIDS

among high risk groups.

Rozita Hod [email protected] UKM Rozita Hod is an associate professor at the National

University of Malaysia. She received her degree in

Medicine in 1993 and worked as medical officer in

Kuala Lumpur General Hospital as well as Penang

General Hospital. In 2006, she obtained her Masters in

Public Health and continued her service with the

Ministry of Health, in the Disease Control Division.

Soon, she decided to venture into the academic world

and joined the National University of Malaysia to

pursue her interest in teaching and performing research

in environmental and occupational health. She is

supervising students in doing research projects on

occupational and environmental hazards. Currently, she

resides in Kuala Lumpur with her husband and three

children.

Victor Hoe Chee

Wai Bin Abdullah


Malaya

Associate Professor Hoe is an Occupational Physician

with a practice in the University Malaya Medical

Centre. He heads the Centre for Occupational and

Environmental Health-University of Malaya

(COEHUM) a research centre focused on occupational

and environmental health research and consultation, and

the Occupational and Environmental Health Unit in the

Department of Social and Preventive Medicine,

University of Malaya. He has published numerous peer

reviewed manuscripts and guidelines. He is an editorial

member for the Journal of Health and Translational

Medicine (JUMMEC), Frontiers in Public Health and

Medical Journal of Malaysia. He is also a registered

Public Health subject consultant for Environmental

Impact Assessment (EIA) studies with the Department

of Environment Malaysia. In 2014, he was involved in

three EIA projects with various consultation firm. The

EIA projects are the establishment of a cement plant in

Gua Musang, Kelantan, hydroelectric project in Jerantut,

Pahang, aluminium smelter plant expansion project in

Bintulu, Sarawak, and petrochemical plant expansion in

Pasir Gudang, Johor. His research interests include

worksite wellness, musculoskeletal disorders,

ergonomics, health risk assessment, Evidence-Based

Medicine and systematic reviews.

Ryo Horiike [email protected] Osaka

University

Ryo Horiike is an MNS, RN, RPHN. He is now a Ph.D.

Candidate at the Graduate School of Medicine, Division

of Health Sciences, at Osaka University. In 2013 he

received his Master of Nursing from the Graduate

School of Integrated Arts and Sciences from Kochi

University and in 2011 he received his Bachelor of

Science in Nursing from the same university.

Hui-Hsuan Hsu '[email protected]' National Taiwan

University

Hui-Hsuan Hsu is a graduate student at National Taiwan

University majoring in statistics. In her spare time, she

likes to exercise and read novels.

Jei-Yie Huang


University

Jei-Yie Huang is from Taiwan and got her M.D. degree

from College of Medicine, National Taiwan University.

She is now an attending physician in nuclear medicine

department of National Taiwan University Hospital. She

is continuing her master degree program in Institute of

Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of

Public Health, National Taiwan University under the

guidance of Prof. Kuo-Liong Chien. Her main research

area is cardiovascular imaging.

Ya-Ping Huang [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Ya-Ping is a PhD student at the Institute of Epidemiology

and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University.

She is also a physician currently working in NTUH, and

her expertise area is rehabilitation and public health. Her

main research area is statistical analysis on National

Health Insurance (NHI) Database in Taiwan.

Pottyan I [email protected] Osaka

University

Pottyan I is currently a student at the Faculty of

Medicine at Osaka University.


Hiroyasu Iso [email protected] Osaka

University

Hiroyasu Iso is Professor of Public Health and Vice

Dean of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.

He graduated from medical school in 1982 and received

PhD in 1986 from University of Tsukuba, and MPH in

1988 from University of Minnesota under the Fulbright

Scholarship. He worked as visiting Associate Professor

of Medicine in Harvard University in 1996-1997. His

major is epidemiology and prevention of lifestyle-

related disease and published over 500 original articles

in this area, and he leads national research projects on

birth cohorts, genomic cohorts and lifestyle-related

disease epidemiology. He has directed Mater of Public

Health (MPH) program in Osaka University. He serves

as the head of trustees for Japan Epidemiological

Association, and a national representative for the WHO

informal consultation group of NCD experts.

Yon Ho Jee [email protected] Sookmyung

Women's

University

Yonho Jee, is a student of the department of Statistics in

Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea. Her

current research is focused on Age-Period-Cohort(APC)

study for colorectal cancer, which was published in Asia

Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. She is also

conducting another paper on APC study for lung cancer.

She is a research assistant to the Korean Cancer

Prevention Study-ll. This is a Large-scale cohort study of

traditional and genetic risk factor on cancer risk among

the Korean population.

Masamine Jimba [email protected] University of

Tokyo Masamine Jimba is a professor and chair in the

Department of Community and Global Health at the

Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo. He

studied at Japan’s National Institute of Public Health and

the Harvard School of Public Health. His practical

experience includes disease control and health promotion

activities in developing countries, first as a WHO Health

Coordinator for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank from

1994 to 1996. From 1996 to 2001, he implemented health

promotion programs in rural Nepal, using a community

development approach, as a public health expert with the

Japan International Cooperation Agency. In 2002, he

came back to Japan to have a base in the university and

has been working on health projects in Asia, Africa and

Latin America. His current research interests include

health promotion, global health policy, health and

development, and maternal, newborn and child health.

Dewa Ayu Putu

Ratna Juwita

[email protected] Warmedewa

University

Ratna Juwita graduated as a medical doctor from

Udayana University in the Faculty of Medicine in 2010.

Since 2012 she has been working as a lecturer in the

Faculty of Medicine at Warmadewa University in the

Department of Public Health. She currently also works

as Secretary of the Quality Assurance Unit. She is a

member of the Team of Items Reviewers, and a member

of Clinical Skill Laboratory, as well as a facilitator for

small group discussions by the students at the Faculty.

Her main research interests include epidemiological

statistics and medical education practice.

Hoon Eng Khoo [email protected] National

University of

Singapore

Associate Professor Khoo is a graduate from Smith

College, St. Mary’s Medical School (London) and

University of Dundee. She taught at the Faculty of

Medicine, National University of Malaysia for 10 years

before joining the Faculty of Medicine (now Yong Loo

Lin School of Medicine) at the National University of

Singapore (NUS) in 1988. She has taught medical,

dental, science undergraduate and PhD students. Her

scientific research interests have been in the study of

bioactive components of venoms and toxins. She was a

member of the International Society of Toxinology,

Secretary-General of the Federation of Asian and

Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists and

was active on the Education Committee of the

International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular

Biology. She has published research articles and books

in medical education and led faculty development

workshops as Deputy Head of the Medical Education

Unit and Associate at the NUS Center for Development

of Teaching and Learning. Between 1997 and 2003, she

was Vice-Dean in the Faculty of Medicine and was part

of a team that developed a new curriculum for the

medical course and life sciences course. During a leave

of absence from NUS, she worked for three years (2007-

2010) as the Provost and Acting Vice-Chancellor of the

Asian University for Women in Bangladesh. After

returning to NUS, she was Deputy Director of the

International Relations Office before joining Yale-NUS

College in October 2011 where she is now the Director

for Special Projects in the Office of the President.

Yuri Kitamura [email protected] Osaka

University

Yuri Kitamura, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of

the Division of Environmental Medicine and Population

Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka

University. Prior to coming here, she was an Assistant

Professor of the Department of Physiology (1997-2007),

engaged in Neuroscience and Biophysics. After she

graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1990, and

worked as an Anesthesiologist at the Osaka University

Hospital, she began to do a research about biophysical

mechanisms of the motor proteins at the ERATO,

Yanagida Bio-Motoron research project from 1993 to

1997. Besides she participated to the Break-Through

21st Project, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and

Communications (1998-2002), because of her

expanding research interest especially to Neuroscience.

As she started to work as a Psychiatrist since 2002,

became a psychiatric specialist in 2008, and authorized

occupational physician in 2012. She studied abroad at

the Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital

and Cyclotron Unit (2003-2005). Now she devotes

herself to Epidemiology, making challenge to mental

health problems in Japan.

Ayako Kohno [email protected] University of

Malaya

Ayako Kohno is currently a Master's Candidate at the

Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, School

of Public Health in the Department of Health

Informatics. From October 2014 - September 2015

(scheduled) she has been at the University of Malaya,

Malaysia in the Faculty of Medicine, Department of

Social and Preventive Medicine. She is a Master of

Medical Science (MMedSc) candidate through a double-

degree program between Kyoto University and the

University of Malaya.



Katsunori Kondo [email protected] Chiba

University

Katsunori Kondo is a professor of social epidemiology

and health policy at the Center for Preventive Medical

Sciences and Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba

University, Japan. He is the Principal Investigator of the

Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES) Project,

which is one of the first prospective cohort studies to

investigate the influence of social determinants of health

and community social capital on health outcomes among

older people. He is the author of bestselling books,

“Health Gap Society - what undermining mental health

and society? “, Igaku-Shoin, 2005, which is awarded in

2006 by The Society for the Study of Social Policy. He

is an advisory editor of “Social Science & Medicine”,

Elsevier. He also edited and wrote ”Social Determinants

of Health - reviews of 'health disparities' in Non

Communicable Diseases”, Japan Public Health

Association, 2013; “Beyond 'healthcare crisis' - future of

health and long term care in the UK and Japan”, Igaku-

Shoin, 2012; “Health Inequalities in Japan: An Empirical

Study of the Older People”, Trans Pacific Press,

Melbourne, 2010; “Live through Health Gap Society”,

Asahi Newspaper Publisher,Tokyo, 2010; “Health and

Social Service management - toward development of

welfare society”, Minerva-shobo, 2007; “Beyond ‘The

Era of Cost Containment’ - Reforms of health and social

services in the UK”, Igaku-Shoin, 2004.


Agustin

Kusumayati


Indonesia

Agustin Kusumayati, MD, PhD has been the Dean of the

Faculty of Public Health at the University of Indonesia

(UI) since 2013. She has been on the Faculty there since

1987. She has also served as the Chairperson of the

Working Group on Reproductive Health, the Chairperson

of the Baccalaureate Program in Public Health, the

Chairperson of the Working Group on Quality in Health

Care, and the Vice Dean for Finance and General Affairs.

She received a PhD in Human Science from Osaka

University, as well as Masters in Science in Nutrition

from UI. She also completed her MD at UI in 1986. Her

main research interests are: 1. Reproductive health

matters, especially related to safe motherhood, family

planning, child survival and development, and adolescent

health; 2. improvement in the quality of health care and

services, especially related to evidence-based

development and planning of health intervention (e.g.

application of logical framework technique),

improvement of client satisfaction, improvement of

reproductive health service quality and effective

management of reproductive health program; 3. human

health behavior, especially related to reproductive health

behavior such as compliance to reproductive health care

standard and adolescent health.

Chih-Chin Lai [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Chih-Chin Lai received B.S. degree from School and

Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, National Taiwan

University (NTUPT) in 2009. In the second half of 2009,

she worked as a research assistant in Infant Motor

Development Laboratory, NTUPT. She joined

Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, NTU

Hospital at the beginning of 2010, and has been involved

in the care of patients with musculoskeletal problems.

Since last fall semester, along with her physiotherapist

job in NTUH, she has been taking classes and working

on M.S. thesis research at Institute of Epidemiology and

Preventive Medicine, NTU.


Orapin Laosee [email protected] Mahidol

University

Orapin is an instructor at ASEAN Institute for Health

Development at Mahidol University Thailand. She has

worked in research as the national coordinator in global

studies since 2003. She has been actively involved in

Thai National Injury Survey in 2005. Her research

interests focus on injury prevention, child health, and

community health. She received her PhD from the

College of Public Health Science, Chulalongkorn

University in 2011. She also received a Diploma on

Research and Development of Products to Meet Public

Health Needs, Nagasaki University, Japan, 2006 and an

MPH from the College of Public Health at

Chulalongkorn University in 2002, as well as an M.Sc.

(Public Health), from the Faculty of Public Health,

Mahidol University in 1999.

Ji Liang [email protected] Fudan

University

Ji Liang holds an MD and MSc from Shanghai Medical

University in Shanghai. He also received his PhD in

Epidemiology and Statistics from Fudan University in

2011. Ji Liang has a broad background in Public Health,

with specific training and expertise in epidemiology,

maternal and child health and health care management

research areas for this application. As a research fellow

at Vanderbilt from 2011-2012, he carried out

epidemiology and survey research on colorectal cancer

prevention. At the Department of Maternal and Child

Health at Fudan University School of Public Health, he

is a Lecturer who is involved in teaching and research

on reproductive health and evidence based health care.

Dong Lijia [email protected] Fudan

University

From 2009-2013, Dong Lijia studied in West China at

the School of Public Health of Sichuan University,

where she received her bachelor degree in

management. Since 2013, she is a graduate student at

the School of Public Health at Fudan University where

she is in the master degree program in the area of health

management.

Hsien-Ho Lin [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Hsien-Ho Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of

Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the National

Taiwan University where he has been a faculty member

since 2010. He received his M.D. from National Taiwan

University (2001) and completed the training in Family

Medicine from Hualien Mennonite Christian Hospital

(2001-2005). He completed his Sc.D. in Epidemiology

from Harvard School of Public Health (2009). Dr. Lin's

research interest involves using epidemiological studies

to assist control and prevention of tuberculosis. He has

used dynamic transmission models to assess the

potential impact of tuberculosis interventions that are

being considered by policy makers, including new

diagnostics in Tanzania and tuberculosis control

programs in China and Taiwan. He is also actively

involved in the National Bureau of Disease research

project in Taiwan. He has been a technical consultant

for the International Union Against Tuberculosis and

Lung Disease ("The Union") and a consultant for the

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He serves on the

Editorial Board of Public Health Action, an official

journal of The Union.


Mat Lowe [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Mat Lowe is global public health policy and

management specialist, public health, population and

development practitioner. He is currently pursuing a

PhD in Global Health at National Taiwan University.

Mat holds an MS in Public Health from National Yang-

Ming University International Health Program (IHP).

He has worked both in Burkina Faso and in The

Gambia. In Burkina Faso, as Young Professional at the

Population Council Reproductive Health Division,

Poverty, Gender and Youth Program (PGYP), and in

The Gambia as Project Officer for the Pneumococcal

Disease Surveillance in the West Africa Region

(PneumoWAR) at the Medical Research Council (MRC)

Unit The Gambia

Don Eliseo Lucero-

Prisno III


Philippines

Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III is a Senior Lecturer in

International Health of the Faculty of Management and

Development Studies of the University of the

Philippines (Open University). He is also an Associate

Professor of Public Health at the Department of Public

Health of Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU).

He has been teaching with the Master of Public Health

(MPH) Programme of the Department of Public Health

and Policy of the University of Liverpool (UoL) in the

UK since 2009 where he remains as Honorary Lecturer

of Public Health until the present. Don is a Research

Fellow of Medical Research-International Health of the

Centre for International Health of the Ludwig

Maximilian University in Munich, Germany since 2014.

Don has published in the fields of global health and

public health in scientific journals and has authored five

book chapters. He is a member of many international

bodies and has been invited to deliver presentations in

numerous conferences and meetings in many parts of

the world. His work has been recognised through a

number of international awards including the first

Global Health Promotion Practice Award by the

International Union for Health Promotion and Education

(IUHPE) and The Outstanding Young Man (TOYM) in

Global Health by the President of the Philippines.


Enbo Ma [email protected] University of

Tsukuba

Enbo Ma received a PhD in medicine from the Graduate

School of Comprehensive Human Sciences at the

University of Tsukuba, Japan in 2007. From 2007-2010,

he was a Research Resident, Division of Cancer

Screening and Prevention, National Cancer Center,

Japan. Since 2010, he has been working as an Assistant

Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of

Tsukuba. His research interests are public health and

clinical research focusing on lifestyle related factors of

cancer and cardiovascular diseases, particularly for

those of disparities in Asian populations.

Hazreen Bin Abdul

Majid


Malaya

Hazreen Abdul Majid is an Associate Professor at the

Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty

of Medicine, University Malaya. He did his PhD in

Nutrition at King’s College, London, UK. His areas of

expertise include Nutrition and Dietetics, Dietetic

Community and Enteral Nutrition. Currently one of the

main investigator for the Malaysian Health and

Adolescents Longitudinal Research Team study and also

studies regarding prebiotics and probiotics in patients

receiving enteral nutrition in the intensive care unit. His

publication list can be found at:

http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8619-2010.

Kiyoko Makimoto [email protected] Osaka University Kiyoko Makimoto is a professor at Osaka University

Graduate School of Medicine, Course of Nursing. She

has BA in cultural anthropology from University of

Oregon, MPH and PhD in epidemiology from

University of Texas, USA. She held research positions

in the US: faculty associate at the University of Texas;

research associate at CRS, Inc. and research scientist III

from the University of Washington. After 14 years of

studying and working in the US, she returned to Japan

to teach nursing students as a professor at Kanazawa

University. Then, she moved to Osaka for her current

position.

Martya Rahmaniati

Makful


Indonesia

Martya Rahmaniati works as a lecturer in the

Department of Biostatistics and Population Studies,

Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia. She is

also a doctoral candidate in Public Health. She is

interested in the field of health informatics and spatial

statistics. Her educational background is geography and

public health. Her current research is about the spatial

model of the patient's access to health services diagnosis

of TB in the province of West Java and Papua.

Haruka Maeda [email protected] Osaka

University

Haruka Maeda belongs to Osaka University Graduate

School of Medicine, Division of Health Science,

Department of Molecular Biochemistry & Clinical

Investigation. She is a 1st year student in the master’s

course. Her research theme is the role of cell surface

glycan in hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection to develop a

novel HBV therapy. After she finishes her research in

master course, she will work as a clinical laboratory

technologist at Osaka University Hospital. She will

continue her clinical research there.

Sailimai Man [email protected] Peking

University

Sailimai Man is a first year master student in the

Department of Health Policy and Health Management at

Peking University. Since joining the department, she has

been involved with studies related to MCH, nutrition

and global health. The major studies she involved in

include harnessing the power of data to eradicate

poverty: A study of China’s MCH information system

and its effect on maternal and child policy making

(supported by Save the Children), Success factors in

Women’s and Children’s health (supported by

PMNCH), and China’s policy implementation

experience and international dissemination of MCH and

child nutrition (supported by DFID), etc. Last year she

participated in the global health summer program in

Israel. Before joining the department, she received a

Bachelor Degree in public health and preventive

medicine from PKU.

Evi Martha [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Evi Martha received a Doctorate in Public Health from

the Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia in

2011. In 1996, she received a Master of Science in

Public Health, majoring on Health Education and

Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Public Health,

University of Indonesia, Depok, West Java, Indonesia.

In 1987 she was a Graduate in Sociology, Andalas

University, Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia. From

2014 until now, she is Head of Department of Health

Education and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Public

Health, University of Indonesia. She has worked as a

lecturer and researcher since 1990 at Faculty of Public

Health, University of Indonesia.

Jorge A Martínez

Cardona

[email protected] Instituto

Tecnológico y

de Estudios

Superiores de

Monterrey

Jorge A Martínez Cardona is a medical doctor. He was

born in Coahuila, Mexico. He received his MD from

Tecnológico de Monterrey and is currently affiliated

there. He also received a Master in Business

Administration, in Health Care Management from

Anahuac University. His main research interests are:

medical education and pediatric hematology/oncology.

Judith McCool [email protected] University of

Auckland

Judith McCool is Senior Lecturer in Global Health at the

School of Population Health, University of Auckland.

Judith completed her Master of Public Health 1997

(Otago University) and PhD (University of Auckland) in

2002. Since this time she has been an active contributor

to research in the field of health risk perceptions,

tobacco control, media and global health. Judith is both

lead and co-investigator on numerous international and

national research projects funded by HRC, Bloomberg

Initiative, World University Network, Ministry of

Health and an active collaborator research and capacity

building initiatives on in partnership with WHO and

Secretariat for the Pacific Communities. Since being

appointed to senior lecturer in global health, Judith has

developed networks in Asia Pacific region; Latin

America and North America, where she has participated

in country and regional forums for global health and

tobacco control. The Global Health Group, led by

Judith, been awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Strategic

Development Award (2009) and an International

Research Team Development Award (2010) to enhance

international global health collaboration. She is the

coordinator of Andrews Family fellowship initiative

between the School of Population Health and the Fiji

School of Medicine. Her major research interests

including mHealth and tobacco cessation, tobacco

industry activity in the Pacific region, media

interpretations and health behaviours.

Katsuyuki Miura [email protected] Shiga Medical

University

Dr. Katsuyuki Miura received his M.D. in 1988 and his

Ph.D. in public health and epidemiology in 1993 from

Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa,

Japan. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of

Public Health (since 2009) and Director of the Center

for Epidemiologic Research in Asia (CERA) (since

2013), Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu,

Japan. His research interests include cardiovascular

disease epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology for

cardiovascular prevention, and health education and

public health policy for cardiovascular prevention. He

has been the principal investigator of the NIPPON

DATA funded by the Ministry of Health, Labour and

Welfare of Japan since 2010, and was the PI of several

research grants including the Shiga Epidemiologic

Study of Subclinical Atherosclerosis (SESSA).

Foong Ming Moy [email protected] University of

Malaya

Associate Professor Foong Ming Moy is from the

Epidemiology & Biostatistics Unit, Department of

Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She

teaches Research Methodology, Biostatistics, Clinical

Epidemiology & Evidence-Based Medicine, Principles

and Methods of Epidemiology to both undergraduate

and postgraduate candidates. Her research interest

includes translation research, trials in prevention of non-

communicable diseases, workplace wellness and

nutritional epidemiology. Dr Moy is one of the editorial

board members of the Nutrition Journal of Malaysia.

She is also the coordinator for the UM Cochrane

Network site, Malaysian Cochrane Branch, under the

Australasian Cochrane Centre. Dr Moy is active in

research and has published extensively in both local and

international journals.

Yasuhide

Nakamura

[email protected] Osaka

University

Yasuhide Nakamura is a Professor of International

Collaboration, Graduate School of Human Sciences,

Osaka University. After he graduated from The

University of Tokyo, and worked as a pediatrician at

Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital, he started global health to

encourage maternal and child health in Indonesia as a

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) expert

(1986-88) and to promote refugee health program in

UNHCR Pakistan Office (1990-91). He was a Takemi

Fellow (1996-97) in Harvard School of Public Health

for international health. He is widely interested in

conducting research through interdisciplinary approach

in the spirit of fieldworker; Maternal and Child Health

(MCH) Handbook Programs in many countries,

humanitarian relief for refugees and victims by natural

disasters, medical interpreting in hospitals and health

care system in Japan. Dr. Nakamura is the representative

of Health and Development Service (HANDS), a global

health non-profit organization (NPO) and the

representative of Japan Association of International

Health (JAIH). He is a chairperson of Japan Association

of Medical Interpreters (JAMI).


Ken Nakata [email protected] Osaka

University

Ken Nakata is currently a Professor, Dept. of Health and

Sport Sciences, Medicine for Sport and Performing Arts,

and a Professor, Dept. of Global and Innovative

Medicine, at the Osaka University Graduate School of

Medicine. He is also the Director of the Center for

Global Health at the Osaka University Hospital. He

received his MD and PhDs from Osaka University. His

research focuses on molecular and cellar biology of

cartilage, developmental biology, molecular pathology

of skeletal diseases, osteoarthritis, biomechanics of

ligament, tendon and cartilage, regenerative medicine of

cartilage and meniscus, Sports Medicine, arthroscopic

Surgery and global health.

Hiroki Nakatani [email protected] Keio University Hiroki Nakatani is presently Professor for Global Health

and Innovation at Osaka University and Professor for

Global Initiatives at Keio University. He is also

Advisor, International Affairs, Ministry of Health,

Labour and Welfare. He worked as Assistant Director-

General of the WHO from March 2007 to May

2015. He led the largest technical cluster comprising

HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected

Tropical Diseases, with a staff of more than 300 multi-

nationals. During his tenure, the morbidity and mortality

of these three major infections showed trends of decline,

and a few tropical diseases were on track towards

elimination and even eradication in case of

dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease). Before joining

WHO, he worked at the Ministry of Health, Labour and

Welfare of Japan. During a long career at the Ministry,

he acquired extensive technical experience in public

health including tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, as well as

immunization, non-communicable diseases, health

promotion, health emergencies, management of national

hospitals and health workforce development.


Azmawati

Mohammed Nawi


University of

Malaysia

Azmawati Mohammed Nawi MD (Azmawati MN) is a

researcher in the area of public health. She graduated

from National University of Malaysia with a medical

degree in 1999. In 2010, she obtained her Masters in

Community Medicine, specialising in Epidemiology &

Statistics. After 5 years of work experience working in

general hospitals and district hospitals she joined the

National University of Malaysia in 2004 as training

lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine. Since then she has

researched various areas of public health focusing

primarily on epidemiology. She is interested in research

on cancer, clinical trials and population-based studies.

She has published several articles relating to public

health and epidemiological health. Some of her research

has included: 1) to identify the hazard risk of survival

among hepatocellular cancer, 2) the quality of life

among post-surgical cervical cancer patients, 3) web-

based obesity interventions among adolescents and 4)

text message-based interventions on smoking among

young adults. She has collaborated with international

universities such as Niigata University, Japan. She is a

lifetime member of the Malaysian Association of Public

Health Physicians.

Narila Mutia Nasir [email protected] Hidayatullah

State Islamic

University

Narila Mutia Nasir received her Ph.D from Osaka

University, Japan. She is a lecturer at Public Health

Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,

Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta,

Indonesia. Her research focuses on Maternal and Child

Health, Reproductive Health, Community Nutrition, and

Health Promotion and Health Education. She has done

research related to health education media for pregnant

women, the utilization of Maternal and Child Health

(MCH) Handbook focusing on oral care, and the use of

health media promotion to improve knowledge on

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever among School Children.

Recently, Narila has become interested in environment

as one of the determinants of health. She is working on

research about environmental health risk assessment,

particularly in quantifying the burden of disease by

using Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY). She was

involved in the making of MCH handbook for foreigner

in Japan particularly for Indonesian Language Version.

She also had a collaboration research with HANDS

Japan (Health and Development Service). As for her

contribution to community in Indonesia, she enjoys

promoting health by being speakers in Health Integrated

Post, School, and Neighborhood’s gathering on topic

about nutrition and reproductive health.

Juhwan Oh [email protected] Seoul National

University

Juhwan Oh is Professor of International Health Policy

and Management of Seoul National University College

of Medicine. He is interested in Maternal, Child, and

Adolescent Health, Health Insurance Policy, and Health

Inequality. He has been teaching and researching Global

Health topics in the school and consulting Korea

Government for global health ODA. He is also serving

as secretary of Dr. Lee Jong-Wook Center for Global

Medicine of Seoul National University.


Hidayatulfathi

Othman


University of

Malaysia

Hidayatulfathi Othman holds a Doctorate Degree from

National University of Malaysia, an MSc degree from

University of Liverpool and a Bachelor degree in

Applied Science from the Universiti Sains Malaysia.

She is currently working as a lecturer at the National

University of Malaysia. She is very passionate about

teaching and has deep interest in personal development.

She has been involved with administrative works,

particularly in handling students and staff motivational

seminars and team buildings. Currently she holds a

position as the Head of Industry and Community

Partnerships, which requires intense interactions with

the industries and communities. Apt to her position, she

hopes to be a role model that cultivates in young people,

open minds, the knowledge and ability to look at the

world critically, and the belief in one’s capacity to make

positive contributions to society. She has more than 100

papers and proceedings as a result of over 20 years of

research experience. Over the past seven years, she has

been working with rural community schools,

particularly the Orang Asli and has planned, prepared

and delivered educational activities that engaged

students in raising awareness raising about personal

hygiene and well-being. She enjoys working with and

learning from young people, and committed to making

meaningful contributions to their growth. These

experiences working in varied environments have

enabled her to develop a range of practical skills. She is

able to manage challenging behavior effectively,

conduct activities and communicate with people from

diverse backgrounds.

Nenita B.

Panaligan

[email protected] Cavite State

University

Nenita B. Panaligan is a graduate student of College of

Nursing, University of the Philippines located in

Manila. She is born on March 1, 1972 and resides at the

town of Indang in the province of Cavite. She is a

graduate of Far Eastern University with a degree of

Bachelor of Science in Nursing and she obtained her

Master of Arts in Nursing degree at the University of

Santo Tomas located in Manila. She is currently

enrolled on Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing degree

progam at the University of the Philippines, Manila. She

worked as a nurse practitioner in a government owned

provincial hospital for almost 11 years and as an

instructor for 10 years up to the present at Cavite State

University College of Nursing. She is designated as the

College Research Coordinator and the Clinical

Coordinator. She is a member of the Philippine Nurses

Association, which is the official professional

organization of Nursing in the country and elected as the

PNA Cavite Chapter Vice President for Finance.

Zhuo-Xin Peng [email protected] Fudan

University

Zhuo-Xin was born in Wuhan City, China, the sister-

city of Osaka. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the

Public Health Department of Fudan University and is

now continuing his master degree program in the same

department under the guidance of Prof. Wang Weibing.

His main research area is epidemiology of infectious

disease.

Kai Hong Phua [email protected] National

University of

Singapore

Kai Hong Phua is a tenured professor at the Lee Kuan

Yew School of Public Policy, National University of

Singapore and was previously Associate Professor and

Head, Health Services Research, Department of

Community, Occupational & Family Medicine at the

Faculty of Medicine and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the

Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore. He graduated

with honours cum laude from Harvard University and

received graduate degrees from the Harvard School of

Public Health and London School of Economics &

Political Science. Dr Phua was the co-lead and

corresponding author of the overview article in the

Lancet Series on Health in Southeast Asia (2011). He is

Guest Editor of the Social Science & Medicine special

issue on Health Systems in Asia and co-editor, Ageing

Asia Series of World Scientific. He delivered the ST

Lee Lecture 2012 at the Menzies Centre for Health

Policy of the University of Sydney and Australian

National University. He has produced numerous

publications in health policy and related areas. He

served as Associate Editor of the Singapore Economic

Review and Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. Dr

Phua received The Outstanding Young Person award in

1992 in Singapore. He was a past Vice-Chairman of the

Singapore Red Cross, served on the Board of

Management of the Home Nursing Foundation and was

a founder Council Member and Chairman, Resource

Committee of the Gerontological Society. He was

Chairman of the Task Force on Social Services 2015.

He has been appointed on many national advisory

committees, including the Government Parliamentary

Committee Resource Panel on Health. He has consulted

for many international organizations, including the

WHO, the Asian Development Bank, Red Cross, World

Bank, and UNESCAP.

Nurhayati

Prihartono


Indonesia

Nurhayati Prihartono holds a Sc.D. degree in

epidemiology from the University of Massachusetts,

Lowell (2008), an M.P.H and M.Sc. in epidemiology

from Boston University’s School of Public Health (1987

and 1999), and a D.D.S. from University of Indonesia,

Faculty of Dentistry (1981). Since 1982, she has been

on the faculty at the Department of Epidemiology

School of Public Health at University of Indonesia. She

participates in the Indonesian Public Health

Association’s Advisory Committee for epidemiology.

She is on the editorial board of Ministry of Indonesia

Research and Development’s Jurnal Buski. Dr.

Prihartono’s research focuses on epidemiology of non-

communicable disease, tuberculosis, health related

work-environmental exposures. She has published

several articles in peer reviewed journals.

Deshinta Rosalina

Puspitasari


Indonesia

Deshinta is a fourth year undergraduate nursing student

in University of Indonesia. She is interested in health

topic and knowledge development and has proven this

interest through her involvement in events and

competition around health development. She has also

produced some papers about geriatric nursing, public

health, and transcultural nursing.

Yi Qian [email protected] Fudan

University

Yi Qian is now is a PhD student in the Social Medicine

Department in Public Health School of Fudan

University. Her dissertation mainly focuses on the

health workforce in Laos. Before getting involved in the

public health field, Yi worked in Family Medicine

Department of a 3A level general hospital in China as a

physician for three years after graduation from medical

school with a bachelor degree of clinical medicine. She

also studied at the Liverpool School of Tropical

Medicine (LSTM) where she received a Master of

International Public Health (MIPH), and completed her

thesis on family planning services in Nigeria.

Xuezheng Qin [email protected] Peking

University

Xuezheng Qin is an associate professor in the School of

Economics at Peking University. He earned his B.S.

from Peking University and his Ph.D. in Economics

from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His

primary research interests include health economics,

labor economics, and applied econometrics. He has

published numerous papers in peer reviewed journals

such as China Economic Review, Health Policy and

Planning, European Journal of Health Economics, and

Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance. His research is

funded by National Natural Science Foundation of

China, Ministry of Education of China, International

Development Research Centre (Canada), and others. He

is included in Beijing Higher Education Young Elite

Teacher Project and has won many other awards. Dr.

Qin serves on the editorial board of China Health

Review and as an external reviewer for many

international journals. In Peking University, Dr. Qin

teaches Econometrics, Health Economics and Chinese

Economic Transition. His current research focuses on

health insurance, health related behaviors, non-

communicable diseases and regional distribution of

healthcare resources in China.

Alex Ross [email protected] Director of

WHO Centre for

Health

Development

Mr Ross is the Director of the WHO Centre for Health

Development (Kobe, Japan or WKC), a global centre for

excellence in research on the consequences of social,

economic and environmental change and its

implications for health policies. Mr Ross oversees the

Centre’s new research strategy that focuses on

advancing universal health coverage (UHC),

innovation, and ageing; as well as the Centre’s portfolio

leading WHO’s work on urban health, inclusive of a

focus on health inequities, health governance

and intersectoral action, and urban health emergencies.

The Centre is part of WHO’s Headquarters’ Health

Systems and Innovation Cluster. He is a public health

policy expert trained in the United States at the

University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior

to his joining the Centre, he served as Director for

Partnerships at WHO Headquarters (Geneva) for four

years, as well as in senior advisory posts to Assistant

Director-Generals for Communicable Diseases and for

HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria for four years. During this

time, he led development of a WHO partnerships policy,

nurtured WHO’s engagement with global health

initiatives, non-governmental and private sectors. He

also provided inputs to the Pandemic Influenza

Preparedness framework negotiations, including

strategies for engaging vaccine manufacturers, other

private sector entities, and the World Bank/IMF to help

provide funds to countries in need. Mr Ross was very

involved in developing innovative health financing

approaches, such as the Solidarity Tobacco

Contribution, and has been part of the creation of the

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and

UNITAID. Before joining WHO, Mr Ross served in

senior positions in the UK Department for International

Development between 2001 and 2003, and in several

U.S. Government agencies between 1987 and 2001

(USAID Bureau for Africa, U.S. Public Health Service,

U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce

Committee, and U.S. General Accounting Office).


Mazrura Sahani [email protected] National

University of

Malaysia

Mazrura Sahani is a Medical Lecturer at the National

University of Malaysia (UKM) since 2006. She obtained

a PhD in Environmental Management for Health from

University of Western Sydney, Australia, a Master in

Public Health from UKM and a Medical Degree from

Catholic University of Leuven Belgium. She is the

Principal Public Health Consultant for >30 EIA/ HIA

projects since 2006. In 2011 she was appointed as WHO

Consultant for ‘Development of guidance document on

health risk assessment for solid waste management’ by

the Engineering Services of the Ministry of Health,

Malaysia and for “Development of Environmental

Impact Assessment (EIA) Guidelines for Solid Waste

Incinerator Guidelines on Public Health – by the DOE”.

In 2013 she was appointed as the lead consultant to

review “Medical Surveillance Guidelines for Workers

Health” (DOSH, Malaysia). She is Founding President

of Malaysian Society of Environmental Epidemiology

(MySEE). She served at the Ministry of Health from

1991-2006 with the last posting in the Environmental

Health Research Center, Institute for Medical Research,

Kuala Lumpur. She has organised several training/

workshops and seminars in HIA/ EHIA since

2008. Her research interests are: Impact of the

Environmental and Occupational Exposure to Human

Health with special interest in the health effects of air

pollution and haze, Impact of Climate Change on Public

Health and GIS application in Health Risk Analysis.

Nurezdiani Said [email protected] National

University of

Malaysia

Nurezdiani Said is married with 2 kids. She is in her 2nd

year of the PhD program at National University of

Malaysia where she loves to interact with people to gain

as much as knowledge as possible. She is conducting

research on Health Risk Assessment of Volatile Organic

Compounds (VOCs) of workers and community

members in palm oil plantations in Malaysia. This

focuses on Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds

(BVOCs). She has 8 years teaching experience at a

private institution in Malaysia. She plans to become a

specialist in Occupational Safety & Health, especially in

industrial hygiene.

Ryoto Sakaniwa [email protected] Osaka

University

Born in Gunma, Japan, Ryoto’s global health career

started after the East Japan great earthquake. In 2011, he

worked at Miyagi Prefectural Center for Disaster and

Health management office as an epidemiological

analyst. He holds two master's degrees (Msc in

International Health and Master in Public Health) from

England. He is currently working at Osaka University

Department of Public Health as well as Osaka Center for

Cancer and Cardiovascular Preventing as an analyst. In

March of 2015, he was dispatched as a member of FMT

(Foreign Medical Team) epidemiologist and supportive

Researcher of WHO-WPRO. He also was awarded

testimonials from Miyagi Prefecture and Tohoku

University in 2012 and the Social Determinants of

Health workshop award in 2014.

Jonathan Samet [email protected] University of

Southern

California

Distinguished Professor, Flora L. Thornton Chair,

Department of Preventive Medicine, University of

Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Director,

University of Southern California Institute for Global

Health. Dr. Samet, a pulmonary physician and

epidemiologist, is currently Distinguished Professor and

Flora L. Thornton Chair, Department of Preventive

Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck

School of Medicine and Director of the University of

Southern California Institute for Global Health. His

career has centered on epidemiologic research on threats

to public health and using research findings to support

policies that protect population health. His research has

addressed indoor and outdoor air pollution, smoking,

radiation risks, cancer etiology and outcomes, and sleep.

Dr. Samet received an M.D. from the University of

Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and an

M.S. in epidemiology from the Harvard School of

Public Health. He has been chair of the Clean Air

Scientific Advisory Committee of the U.S. EPA and

currently chairs the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific

Advisory Committee. He received the Surgeon

General’s Medallion in 1990 and 2006, the 2004 Prince

Mahidol Award for Global Health awarded by the King

of Thailand, and the 2006 Public Service Award of the

American Thoracic Society. He received the Alumni

Award of Merit from the Harvard School of Public

Health, and was named Distinguished Alumnus of the

Year by the University of Rochester School of Medicine

and Dentistry. He was elected to the Institute of

Medicine in 1997.

Josefina Cabuniag

Santos


Philippines

Josefina C. Santos is an assistant professor at the

Broadcast Communication Department of the College of

Mass Communication at the University of the

Philippines. She was once a technical assistant for

training for the Conservation of Priority Protected Areas

of the Philippines Project of the Department of

Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippine

government. She also serves as overall faculty-in-charge

of a Department of Health and the University of the

Philippines College of Mass Communication

collaborative project for an integrated management of

communication materials for the prevention and control

of tuberculosis in the Philippines. She is currently a

creative consultant of a radio drama program that talks

about the University of the Philippines and its services to

the Filipino people. She is also the college coordinator

for the implementation of the national service training

program where students of the Philippines taking

baccalaureate degrees and vocational courses are given

two-year trainings to become reserve forces to address

the country’s needs in time of peace and in war. The

program currently focuses on military, literacy and civic

welfare especially in trainings for disaster risk

management, environment protection, health, and safety.

Mizuki Sata [email protected] Osaka University Mizuki Sata is a doctoral student at the Graduate School

of Medicine, Osaka University studying maternal and

child health.

Sono Sawada [email protected] Osaka University Sono Sawada is a master student at the Graduate School

of Osaka University, Department of Medicine, Division

of Health Science. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in

Osaka University, Division of Health Sciences. She is

interested in epidemiological research of cancer and

social epidemiology.


Atsuko Sawanobori [email protected] Osaka

University

Atsuko Sawanobori belongs to the Osaka University

Graduate School of Medicine, Division of Health

Science, Department of Molecular Biochemistry &

Clinical Investigation. She is a 1st year student in the

master’s course. Her research theme is functional

analysis of glycan-lipid complex, which involves in

membrane traffic as cancer-associated cell polarity. She

works very hard even at weekend and/or mid night. She

has a lot of knowledge on basic biochemistry and

therefore teaches Biochemistry in the nursing school as

a part-time teacher.

Yun-Ju Shih [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Yun-Ju Shih was an undergraduate student in the

College of Public Health of National Taiwan University

from September 2011 to July 2015. She was the Captain

of 42th NTUPH service team in 2014. She majored in

statistics during her undergraduate study. She will begin

her master degree program at the Institute of

Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine of National

Taiwan University in 2015. She is interested in

epidemiology and modelling of infectious disease. Her

recent study is about modelling the effect of BCG

vaccination against tuberculosis.

Senice So [email protected] University of

Sydney

Senice So is responsible for developing key strategic

relationships in regards to research and innovation,

capacity building, teaching and learning and community

engagement. Senice has extensive experience of

building relationships and working with the University’s

partners particularly in Asia. Her qualifications include

an MBA. She provides analysis, program development,

support and advice on relationships with partners in the

following countries and regions. These regions: East

Asia, selected countries in South East Asia, and The

Americas. These countries in Asia include: China, Hong

Kong, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia, Singapore,

Thailand, Japan, and Korea.

Tomotaka Sobue [email protected] Osaka

University

Tomotaka Sobue is a Professor of Division of

Environmental Medicine and Population Sciences,

Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University since

2012. He received his M.D. from Osaka University

School of Medicine in 1983. He entered Department of

cancer control and statistics, Osaka Medical Center for

Cancer and Cardiovascular disease in 1983. After one-

year training for internal medicine for respiratory

diseases at the hospital, he started his research activity

in the field of cancer epidemiology for lung cancer and

evaluation study for lung cancer screening. In 1986-87,

he joined Johns Hopkins University School of Public

Health and completed MPH degree. In 1994, he moved

to National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, as

a Section Chief, Cancer Etiology Section, Cancer

Information and Epidemiology Division. He became a

Chief of Cancer Information and Epidemiology

Division, NCC Research Institute in 2002, a Chief of

Statistics and Cancer Control Division, Research Center

for Cancer Prevention and Screening, NCC in 2003, and

Chief of Surveillance Division, Center for Cancer

Control and Information Services, NCC in 2006. He was

responsible to cover following activities; 1) developing

cancer registration system, 2) developing guideline for

cancer screening and 3) establishing comprehensive

cancer control activities at national level.

Mary Story [email protected] Duke University Mary Story joined Duke University January 2014 as a

Professor in Community and Family Medicine, and

Global Health. She is also Associate Director of

Academic Programs at the Duke Global Health Institute.

Prior to coming to Duke, she was a Professor in the

Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, and

Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Student

Affairs and in the School of Public Health, University of

Minnesota where she was also adjunct professor in the

Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine. Since

2005, she has been director of the National Program

Office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Healthy Eating Research program. Mary has devoted

her research career to the study of child and adolescent

obesity and nutrition, focused primarily on 1) nutrition-

related issues of low-income and minority youth, 2)


factors related to eating patterns and behaviors of youth,

and 3) environmental, policy and behavioral

community-based obesity prevention interventions for

youth. She has over 450 scientific publications in the

area of child and adolescent nutrition and obesity

prevention. She is a member of the Institute of

Medicine, and is currently on the IOM Food and

Nutrition Board and Co-Vice Chair of the IOM

Roundtable on Obesity Solutions. She has been a

member of several IOM committees. She served on the

2015 USDA/DHHS Dietary Guidelines Advisory

Committee.

Tin Tin Su [email protected] National

University of

Malaysia

Tin Tin Su is a public health specialist and health

economist. She graduated from the Institute of

Medicine (I), Yangon in 1991. She has a Master of

Community Health and Health Management degree

(2001) and a Doctor of Medicine (2006) from the

School of Medicine, Heidelberg University, Germany.

She has working and research experiences in Myanmar,

Germany, Nepal, Burkina Faso and Malaysia. Her

research interest includes health economics, health

system and policy, social determinants of health, cancer

awareness and health literacy, and community health

development. She involves in several research projects.

She is a founding member of the Centre for Population

Health (CePH) and appointed as Head of the research

centre since March 2011. She was elected as a vice

president for the Asia Health Literacy Association and

leads the research and development team.

Suriah [email protected] Hasanuddin

University

Suriah, S.KM, M. Kes, received a degree majoring in

Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences from the

School of Public Health, University of Hasanuddin in

1998. She earned a master's degree with specialization

in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences from the

University of Indonesia in 2001, and a Doctorate in

Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences in 2011 from

the University of Indonesia in the field of behavior

change communication expertise and health promotion.

She began her career as a lecturer at the Faculty of

Public Health at the University of Hasanuddin in 2002

and will serve as Head of the Health Promotion and

Behavioral Sciences Department at the Faculty of Public

Health of Hasanuddin University from 2015 to 2019.

Putu Sutisna

[email protected] Warmadewa

University

Putu Sutisna MD retired from the Faculty of Medicine

Udayana University in 2008 after having served in that

University for 38 years. At present he is professor and

head of the Department of Parasitology and

Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health

Science, Warmadewa University in Denpasar Bali. His

main research interests include epidemiology of

Taenia/cysticercosis and soil-transmitted helmith

infection.

R Sutiawan [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Sutiawan is a researcher at the Centre for Biostatistics,

Public Health Informatics and Population Studies,

Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia. He has

been involved in community engagement programs over

the past two years. Sutiawan has extensive experience in

multidisciplinary research and interactions with

stakeholders and has completed some government

projects. His project experience includes: community-

based disease surveillance information systems,

development of household based food crops cultivation

for food/nutrition security, community-based sanitation

management. Program sustainability is his concern, as

that is a major challenge in many developing countries.

Shino Takezawa [email protected] University of

Tsukuba

Shino Takezawa is a master degree student, studying

public health at the University of Tsukuba in Japan.

Originally graduating from university with a degree in

economics, she has previously worked as a nurse trainer

at a nursing school for two years, and for eight years as

an ICU nurse. It was actually when she was working in

Uzbekistan with Japan International Cooperation Agency

(JICA), helping to improve ICU nursing care in that

country, she became interested in global health care and

decided to return to university. As part of her current

course, and in order to conduct research for her thesis,

she has spent time in Bangladesh, meeting the local

people and carrying out questionnaires. When she isn’t

studying hard, she likes to relax by playing the flute, an

instrument that she has been playing for more than

thirteen years. Indeed, she comes from a musical family,

as her father is a baritone. She currently lives in her

hometown of Tokyo with her partner.

Yukina Takuse [email protected] Osaka University Yukina Takuse is a graduate student at Osaka University.

She is also a certified laboratory medical technologist.

Her research is in prognostic diagnosis.

Oscar Tamez Rivera [email protected] Escuela de

Medicina del

Tecnológico de

Monterrey.

Oscar Tamez is currently a second-year pediatrics

resident at Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud

Tecnologico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. He is

particularly interested in Global Health and Infectious

Diseases in the pediatric population. He has authored

several publications on HIV and is currently investigating

bacterial resistance to antibiotics in children.

Emiko Tanaka [email protected] University of

Tsukuba

Emiko Tanaka is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of

Medicine at University of Tsukuba, Japan. She has

experience as clinical nurse and holds a PhD in Medicine

(University of Tsukuba, 2012). Her main research

interest is maternal and child health, especially life span

development and plasticity. In particular, she is focused

on social relationships and social competence, from the

longitudinal perspective. She has conducted various

cohort study projects using a community-based approach.

The Community Empowerment Cohort (CEC study)

sought to investigate factors associated with well-being

and healthy longevity, with the goal of creating a health-

promoting program that would maximize quantity and

quality of life for residents.

Yukiko Tateyama [email protected] Kyoto University Yukiko Tateyama is a pharmacist in Japan. She obtained

her MPH from Kyoto University School of Public

Health, Japan and now pursuing her DrPH program in the

Department of Global Health and Socio-epidemiology at

Kyoto University School of Public Health. Under JICA

Volunteer program in 2010, she participated in

HIV/AIDS initiatives as a program officer in the rural

governmental office in Zambia. The experience ignited

her interests on global health issues; especially in

understanding risk factors for non-communicable

diseases in the social, cultural, and economic contexts in

the Sub-Saharan African region which she undertook as

her research. For her master's thesis, she conducted

qualitative research on risk perception, behavior and

socio-cultural factors related to non-communicable

diseases in Zambia, and is currently continuing further

epidemiological research in the same area using a mixed

method approach.

Paula Tavrow [email protected] UCLA Paula Tavrow, PhD, MSc, MALD is the Director of

UCLA’s Bixby Program in Population and Reproductive

Health and Adjunct Associate Professor in the

Community Health Sciences Department at the UCLA

Fielding School of Public Health. In addition, she is co-

Director of the University of California Global Health

Institute's Center of Expertise in Women's Health &

Empowerment. Her current research interests center on

adolescent reproductive health, coerced sex, gender-

based violence and the quality of primary health care in

developing countries. Prior to coming to UCLA in 2002,

Dr. Tavrow was the Deputy Research Director for the

USAID-funded global Quality Assurance Project (1997-

2001). She oversaw eleven operations research projects

to improve the quality of rural health services in sub-

Saharan Africa. Dr. Tavrow also has worked for the

University of Malawi's Centre for Social Research and

for USAID missions in Somalia, Tanzania, and Zaire.

She received her AB (magna cum laude) from Harvard-

Radcliffe College, her MALD from the Fletcher School

of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and her MSc

and PhD from the School of Public Health at the

University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Richard Taylor [email protected] University of

New South

Wales

Richard Taylor is Professor of Public and International

Health at the University of New South Wales. He has

continuing international experience in the Asia Pacific,

particularly in the Pacific Island region, but also in

China, Mongolia and Vietnam, and has been involved in

the epidemiology and disease control aspects of the

health transition, especially concerning cardiovascular

disease, diabetes and cancer. He also has experience in

control of communicable and vector-borne disease.

Current research in the Pacific Islands focuses on

mortality and cause of death analysis for the prioritisation

and evaluation of prevention and control activities.

Khampasong

Theppanya

[email protected] MOH, Laos Khampasong Theppanya earned a Bachelor degree in

general medicine in 1992 and a Master in Public Health

in 2011. He gained experience in all dimensions of the

health system in Lao during his 20 years career holding

various senior management positions, amongst else

Ministry of Health level and at district/provincial level.

This involved various roles and responsibilities for

management and design of the Lao Health system.

During 2007-2011 he developed a Health staff projection

of MOH, Laos. He was a temporary adviser to the WHO

on developing Service Target Staff Projection Tool of the

Philippines and the MOH of Cambodia. In 2009, he was

a national consultant for the 7167-LAO Health Sector

Development Program in the position of Human

Resources Development Expert. He involved in making

the analysis of the situation of human resource for health

of Lao PDR and developing the Health Personnel

Development Strategy by 2020.

Le Minh Thi [email protected] Hanoi Le Minh Thi is a senior lecturer in the Department of

Reproductive Health at the Hanoi School of Public

Health. Her background is as a medical doctor and in

health social sciences. Her research interests include:

health policy, reproductive health, maternal and child

health. She is involved in a variety of projects with the

DFID, the World Bank, WHO and the Vietnam Ministry

of Health.

Frances Tinker

Larson

[email protected] California State

University

Northridge

Frances Tinker, MD graduated with honors from

University of Southern California School of Medicine in

1978. She practiced Pediatrics for 20 years and Health

Administration for 7 years. She is now a Visiting

Scholar in Global Health at California State University

with a special focus on Environmental Health and

Nutrition.

Indang Trihandini [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Indang Trihandini is a lecturer in the Department of

Biostatistics and Population, Faculty of Public Health,

University of Indonesia. She has more than 20 years of

teaching experience in biostatistics, and community

health at the Faculty of Public Health. She graduated

from Faculty of Dentistry, University of Indonesia,

Indonesia (1985). She also received a Master of Public

Health from the University of Indonesia (1994) and a

Doctoral degree in Public Health (PhD) from University

of Indonesia (2007). Her professional work includes

analysing and conceptualizing and implementing

operations research (OR) in national and international

projects in many areas such as maternal health, under-

five child health, HIV/AIDS and quality of life among

the elderly. Her teaching career began in 1988 with an

emphasis on facilitating students’ gain of knowledge

especially on practical quantitative research methods. She

has taught courses on intermediate biostatistics, and the

application of population and health indicators in the

context of improving child and elderly health. Between

2007–2014, she was a chairman of Dept of Biostatistics

and Population Studies. She is Secretary in Collegiums’

Biostatistics in Indonesia Public Health Association since

2009 and Counselor at Indonesian Medical Informatics

Association since 2007. She has experience with many

foreign organization, such as WHO, UNICEF, USAID

and East West Center. She taught short-courses at the

National University of Malaysia (UKM) and at the

Population Council, Vietnam. Her public health and

quantitative methods experience allow her to work in

planning, organization, problem-solving, and designing

coordination strategies.

Hsin-Yun Tsai [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Hsin-Yun Tsai is a PhD candidate in Health Policy and

Management at the National Taiwan University College

of Public Health, Institute of Health Policy and

Management. She received her Master’s degree in

Health Care Organization Administration from the

National Taiwan University College of Public Health.

Her research interests are healthcare quality

improvement, performance measurement, healthcare

management and secondary data analysis. She currently

works for her advisor, Dr. Kuo-Piao Chung, on a project

using Taiwan Cancer Registry data and National Health

Insurance claims data to investigate the relationship

among healthcare quality, provider volume and patient

outcome in hypopharyngeal carcinoma.

Jessica Tsay [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Jessica Tsay is an international student from the US

pursuing the MPH degree in epidemiology at National

Taiwan University. Her past research was related to

marine biology, but her greatest interest is in human

health. She plans to learn more about infectious disease.

Yu-Hwei Tseng [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Mayeesha Yu-hwei Tseng has just obtained her Ph.D

degree in August, 2015 from the College of Public

Health, National Taiwan University. Her research

interests include primary health care, health system,

health inequalities, GO-NGO dynamics and global

health. Bangladesh has been her field for the last 10

years. She maintains a close relationship with health

NGOs in Bangladesh. Her doctoral dissertation

titled “When creditor and health provider collide:

exploring the myths of hospitals run by microfinance

institutions in Bangladesh” is the result of her encounter

with microcredit over a decade and the training in social

determinants of health. Being the Chinese translator for

two books, “Banker to the Poor” and “Creating a World

without Poverty” authored by Muhammad Yunus, and

being married to a Bangladeshi, she was initially

advocating microcredit in Taiwan. However, by looking

at hospital-based health programs on the platform of

microfinance from an equity lens and in the framework

of health system, she pinpointed the gap between ideal

and reality and offered a different suggestion for policy

makers and development organizations. Aside from

microcredit and health, she followed the MDGs and

reviewed Taiwan’s progress. She has been urging the

academics and government in Taiwan to take stock of

MDGs and participate in the post-2015 development

agenda setting.

Norshazira Binti

Umran


University of

Malaysia

Norshazira Umran is a postgraduate student in National

University of Malaysia (UKM), conducting full time

research regarding environmental and occupational

health. Her current research is related to workers' health

exposure to volatile organic compounds in air. She also

graduated also from UKM with a bachelor of

Environmental Health in 2012. She is a creative,

confident and responsible person. Norshazira is also self-

motivated, persuasive, enjoys working with people and

has good communication abilities.

Paolo Miguel

Manalang Vicerra

[email protected]

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City University

of Marikina

Paolo Vicerra is an instructor at the City University of

Marikina, Philippines. He finished the Demography

graduate programme of Chulalongkorn University in

Thailand. His research concerns morbidity and mortality

analyses; and also on population and development

themes as disaster risks, health and gender development;

and education. Paolo Vicerra is a Fellow of the

Philippine Center for Population and Development at the

University of the Philippines Population Institute under

the Demography programme. His present research

concerns demographic estimation and population and

development.


Mami Wakabayashi [email protected] Osaka University Mami Wakabayashi (MPH, Public Health Nurse) is PhD

candidate for public health in Graduate school of

Medicine, Osaka University in Japan. She have visited

National Centre of Epidemiology and Population

Research (NCEPH) in Australia National University in

order to involve in research in Thai Cohort Study, which

are conducted by NCEPH and Sukhothai Thammathirat

Open University in Thailand. Her research interest is

global health issue, especially how to prevent non-

communicable diseases in developing countries. She

had experienced research- field work in some of Asian

countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Philippine, Korea,

China and had internship WHO Weston Pacific Region

Office, and UNICEF Vietnam.

Shengnan Wang [email protected] Fudan University Shengnan Wang received her Bachelor of Medicine

degree in School of Public Health at Fudan University.

She continued to be a master candidate majoring in

Epidemiology and Health Statistics there since 2013.

She has been involved in several studies and has

published an article predicting direct medical costs of

hospitalizations for cardiovascular diseases in Shanghai.

Now she is mainly working on projects aiming to

determine the transmission of major infectious diseases

such as tuberculosis and hepatitis B. Her current study is

to explore the genetic diversity of the Mycobacterium

tuberculosis W-Beijing genotype in eastern China.

Weibing Wang [email protected] Fudan

University

Weibing Wang is an associate professor at Fudan

University, China. There he received his Ph.D. degree of

epidemiology, focusing on infectious diseases

epidemiology. After that, he was involved in several

significant studies; some of them aim to determine the

transmission in population of major infectious diseases

such as tuberculosis. Quite a few of papers were

published during this period. In 2004, he worked in the

lab of Public Health Research Institute as a visiting

fellow at the International Center for Public Health, U.S.

In 2008-2009, he received an opportunity to work in

Georgetown University, US, as a post-doctor that is an

extraordinary opportunity, to offer a cultural perspective

in public health prevention and control. His current

research projects involve molecular mechanism of

transmission and policy issues related with major

infectious diseases including tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS

and HBV.

Ayano Watanabe [email protected] Osaka University Watanabe Ayano is a graduate student of Osaka

University Graduate School of Medicine and certificated

laboratory medical technologist. Her research field is the

prognostic diagnosis. She participates in activities of

center for twin research.

Kumi Watanabe [email protected] University of

Tsukuba

Kumi Watanabe is currently a second year in master of

public health course at University of Tsukuba, Japan.

When she was in her undergraduate studies, she studied

nursing and now her research interests focus on

community elderly care.

Pornpun

Watcharavitoon

[email protected] Suranaree

University of

Technology

Pornpun Watcharavitoon works as a lecturer at School of

Occupational Health and Safety, Institute of Medicine,

Suranaree University of Technology. She strongly

believes that graduates must have interdisciplinary

knowledge and liberal arts skills to relate and apply their

knowledge in the real world in their careers and also they

can help improve and contribute their experience to the

community and society. As mentioned, to gain the high

caliber graduates, the lecturer must be the one who can

transfer knowledge and experiences effectively. In

addition to the knowledge, experiences, liberal arts skills

obtained from APRU Global Health Program Workshop,

she continues to utilize this Network alumni association

to pursue the activities like the capacity building of local


people and the graduates through the educational

processes so they can contribute to the community,

society and the nation as well as Southeast Asia.

Heather Wipfli [email protected] University of

Southern

California

Heather Wipfli is an Assistant Professor in the

Department of Preventive Medicine at the USC/Keck

School of Medicine and in the Department of

International Relations at the USC Dana and David

Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. She is

also the Associate Director of the USC Institute for

Global Health. Her research focuses on global health

politics and the development of innovative forms of

global health governance. Dr. Wipfli has been engaged in

global health research for over 10 years, focusing on

developing multi-national research protocols that can

identify determinants of health that lie beyond the control

of any one country or community, and that require an

international response to address them. She has

successfully led a number of large multi-country research

and capacity building projects focused on global tobacco

control research and policy, including a study of

secondhand smoke in homes in over 30 countries. These

studies have led to policy change at the local and national

level and have contributed to the scientific foundation for

global policy recommendations by the World Health

Organization. Prior to joining USC, Dr. Wipfli directed

research and training for the Institute for Global Tobacco

Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of

Public Health and also worked as a technical officer at

the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva

on the development of the Framework Convention on

Tobacco Control. Dr. Wipfli received her doctorate in

international relations from the Graduate Institute for

International Studies at the University of Geneva and was

awarded the Alumni Laureate Award in 2007. Dr. Wipfli

has published work on global tobacco control, policy

diffusion, capacity building in developing countries,

globalization and health, and health security.

Mellissa Withers [email protected] University of

Southern

California/

APRU

Mellissa Withers is an Assistant Professor at the

University of Southern California at the USC Keck

School of Medicine in the Institute for Global Health in

Los Angeles. She is also the Program Manager of the

APRU Global Health Program since August of 2013. She

received a PhD in community health sciences from the

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health with a minor in

cultural anthropology. She also holds a Master’s in

International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg

School of Public Health and a BA in international

development from UC Berkeley. Dr. Withers is an

experienced health researcher who has worked in Asia,

Africa and Latin America. She spent fifteen months

conducting fieldwork in a rural village in Indonesia for

her dissertation. Her primary research interests lie in

community participatory research, maternal and child

health, women’s empowerment, violence and human

trafficking and global reproductive health, including

family planning, and HIV prevention. She teaches

courses in global health, medical anthropology and

qualitative research methodology.

Yut-Lin Wong [email protected] National

University of

Malaysia

Yut-Lin Wong, DrPH (Berkeley), MPH (Berkeley),

MPhil Development Studies (Sussex), is Associate

Professor and Head of Family Health at the Department

of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, in

University of Malaya, Malaysia. Her research areas are in

social determinants and health, gender-based violence,

sexual reproductive health and rights, and gender

competencies in medical education as well as presented

and published peer reviewed papers on these issues. She

is an Associate Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of

Public Health (ISI); and guest editor and reviewer for

Preventive Medicine (ISI). She has been invited and

served as a gender expert in gender mainstreaming in the

health sector and medical education by the

Commonwealth Secretariat, Commonwealth Medical

Association, Division of Advancement of Women,

United Nations, and WHO/SEARO. Active networking

and collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Academic

Consortium for Public Health, Global Forum Health

Research (WHO) Initiative on sexual violence research,

Asia-Pacific Resource & Research Center for Women,


and Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance, Malaysia.

Somsak

Wongsawass

[email protected] Mahidol

University

Somsak Wongsawass has been working at the ASEAN

Institute for Health Development in Thailand since 1992

as a researcher. He has been involving in teaching in an

international program called Master of Primary Health

Care Management, and Primary Health Care-

Management Advancement Program (PHC-MAP)

training. He was appointed lecturer in October 1994. He

worked closely with Professor Pantyp Ramasoota and

gained expertise in community health research. Later, he

was granted AusAID scholarship to gain his master

degree at Sydney University in area of sexual health.

Somsak also works on editorial team of Journal of Public

Health and Development which has been accredited as

peer-reviewed journal,. His research interests are now

focused on adolescent health, such as health literacy and

risk behaviors such as substance abuse. He also provides

consultation on Biostatistics and research methodology to

Master students as well as health professionals. He is

now studying for his PhD in Public Health at

Chulalongkorn University. He is also in charge in

international training courses such as District Health

System Strengthening, Mixed Methods Research and

Advanced Data Analysis.

Alistair Woodward [email protected] University of

Auckland

Alistair Woodward has been working on climate change

and health for almost 20 years. He is Professor of

Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of

Auckland; previously Head of the School of Population

Health at the same university. I am a medical graduate

with broad experience in public health and special

interests in environmental matters, including air quality,

injury prevention, tobacco control and climate change.

Recent projects include impacts of heat in Tibet,

adaptation planning in the Pacific and co-benefits of

policy interventions in favour of active transport.

Currently he is studying the effects of urban renovation

on physical activity, transport choices, injury and air

quality. His collaborations include WHO Geneva

(environmental burden of disease), China CDC (climate

change impacts and adaptation), Seoul National

University (regional air quality and climate).

Chang-Fu Wu [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Chang-Fu Wu Ph.D., CIH, obtained his doctoral degree

from the Department of Environmental Health of the

University of Washington in 2002. He joined the

Department of Public Health of the National Taiwan

University in 2004 and is now a professor with an

adjunct appointment in both the Institute of

Environmental Health and Institute of Occupational

Medicine and Industrial Hygiene. His current research

topics cover the following areas: source apportionment

of air pollutants; source-specific exposure and health

risks assessment; source characterization with optical

remote sensing techniques. With regard to professional

services, he serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of

Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. He

is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) which is issued

by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.

Caroline Endah

Wuryaningsih


Indonesia

Caroline Endah Wuryaningsih was born in Yogyakarta.

She received a Bachelor in Anthropology from the

University of Gajah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia and a

Magister in Public Health from the Universitas

Indonesia. Seince 1992, she has worked as a Lecturer in

the Department of Health Education and Behavioral

Science at UI. Her areas of interest are qualitative

methodology, health anthropology, and interpersonal

communication.

Biao Xu [email protected] Fudan University Biao Xu is the Vice-Chair of the Department of

Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, Fudan

University, China. From 2006, she chairs the Fudan

University Tuberculosis Research Center. She is the PI

on several projects on infectious disease epidemiology

and health system research granted by NIH (R01),

European Commission, WHO/TDR, Global Fund,

National Nature Science Foundation and SIDA. Dr. Xu

is an executive committee member of the China

Association against Tuberculosis; member of Expert

Panel for National Tuberculosis Control Program under

the Ministry of Health, China. She also chairs the

Division of Public Health, Shanghai Medical

Association. She was the member of the Disease

Reference Group on TB, Leprosy and Buruli Ulcer

under the WHO TDR in 2009-2011. She received the

“Distinguished Professorship Award” by China Medical

Board (USA) in 2008 and she was also awarded by

Shanghai Municipal government for “May 1st Medal for

Outstanding Women in Science”. She was the

nominated resident of the Writing Residency at the

Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in 2012 for the

Project on Impacts of equity in access to tuberculosis

health care in a transitional society - rural China.

Qian Xu [email protected] Fudan University Qian Xu is a Professor and Chair of Department of

Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health in School of

Public Health, and also a Director of Global Health

Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. She is a

Member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group

of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research

(RHR) in World Health Organization since 2012. Her

main research areas cover safe motherhood, adolescent

reproductive health, maternal health policy and system

research, etc. As the PI, Prof. Qian’s research projects

have been supported by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA,

European Commission, US-NIH Fogarty Center and

UK-DFID. She is also the chief editor of “Introduction

to Woman and Child Health” textbook and the

publication of WHO titled “The Sexual and

Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Youths in

China”. Professor Qian got her bachelor and master

degrees of Medicine from Shanghai Medical University

and Ph.D degree in Epidemiology from Fudan

University. She was the visiting scholar of Harvard

School of Public Health from 1990 to 1992.

Tamami Yamanaka [email protected] Osaka University Tamami Yamanaka is a PhD student of Graduate School

of Medicine at Osaka University. She is interested

in dietary education and visited Palau a few years ago to

study the dietary habit of children.

Kuen Cheh Yang [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Kuen Cheh is an adjunct instructor in the Family

Medicine Department at National Taiwan University’s

School of Medicine and the National Taiwan University Hospital Hsinchu Branch. He became interested in

public health when he worked as a clinical doctor in Sao

Tome and Principe for his substitute service in 2006. He

went on to receive an MS degree from NTU in the

Division of Biostatistics at the Graduate Institute of

Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of

Public Health. After his resident training and fellowship

at the NTU hospital, he worked as an attending

physician at the Hsinchu Branch of the NTU hospital in

2011. In 2012, he served as the chief of International

Medical Volunteer Service in Ladakh, an area of Jammu

and Kashmir State in north India where he worked in a

boarding school of 200 children and developed the

Empowerment Model of Short-term Volunteer Service,

including health education, a self-operated health care

system and general health evaluation. Since 2013, he

has recruited medical students to join the team and

designed a training program for all members. In 2014,

the training program was upgraded to add the curricula

of general education in NTU as “Global Health and

Service Learning”. This curricula is now one of

mandatory criteria for medical students.

Wei Yang [email protected] Fudan University Wei Yang is a master student of maternal and child

health in Fudan University, who as an undergraduate in

2014 graduated from Anhui Medical University. She got

the national scholarship and outstanding award in

scientific and technological innovation contest in

college. As a master, she participated in her tutor’s

programmes, such as Integrating Post-Abortion Family

Planning Services into China’s Existing Abortion

Services in Hospital Settings (INPAC) Study on service

information for maternal and child health, etc. She

actively participates in charity activities additionally.

Wei-Sin Yang [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Wei-Sin Yang will graduate in June 2016 from National

Taiwan University’s Master of Epidemiology and

Preventive medicine. In June 2014, she received her

Bachelor of Public Health from NTU. In 2013, she

worked as a summer intern at NTU Hospital Jin-Shan

Branch. She assisted the conduct of satisfaction

questionnaire on capitation payment, participated in

health promotion and health education projects in Jin-

Shan community and provided a one-month betel nut

rehab program where 100% of the participants achieved

the goal of reducing the use of betel nut. She is the

leader of clerk in the academic cross-straits exchanges

program between National Taiwan University

Department of Medicine and Peking University Health

Science Center. She was also a core member of

activities section in National Taiwan University

Graduating Students Association. She was also the

leader of Public Relations for NTU’s Zongshan Girls

High School Alumni Association.

Seiji Yasumura [email protected] Fukushima

Medical

University

Seiji Yasumura graduated in 1984 from Yamagata

University, School of Medicine (MD), and in 1988

Yamagata University, Graduate School of Medicine

(DMSc). He is a member of the Radiation Medical

Science Center for the Fukushima Health Management

Survey at Fukushima Medical University, where he is a

Professor in the Department of Public Health in the

School of Medicine. He was President of the Japan

Socio-Gerontological Society in 2014. He is has also

been a member of the SCIENCE COUNCIL OF JAPAN,

the International Epidemiological Association, the

Japanese Society of Public Health and the Japan


Epidemiological Association. He was also Councilor of

The Japan Geriatric Society. His research focuses on

public health, epidemiology, gerontology, and lifestyle-

related disease prevention. In 1996 he was awarded the

Young Investigator Award from the Japanese Society of

Public Health.

Yu-Chen Yau [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Yu-Chen Yau is from Taichung, a city that has wonderful

weathers in central Taiwan. Her major subject was

occupational safety and health at the university and she

gained experience as an intern for the Department of

Environmental Safety and Health at Texas Instrument

Taiwan Limited in the summer.

Eric Tsung-Hsien

Yu


University

Tsung-Hsien Yu is a project assistant professor of MPH

program at National Taiwan University. He received his

Ph.D. degree in National Taiwan University in 2012. He

is interested in disparity in quality of care, volume-

outcome research, quality management in health care

organization, patient safety, data mining in health data,

neighborhood effects analysis in hospital behavior. Since

2011, Dr. Yu published 12 articles in international and

domestic journals. Furthermore, Dr. Yu also had rich

practical experiences. He had ever worked in the

department of health in Taipei city government for two

years, and also worked for Taiwan Joint Commission. He

was familiar with quality improvement methods and

health regulations in Taiwan.

Tzu-Hsuen Yuan [email protected] National Taiwan

University

Tzu-Hsuen Yuan is a Project Assistant Professor in

Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial

Hygiene, College of Public Health, National Taiwan

University. He holds a Ph.D. in Occupational Medicine

and Industrial Hygiene from National Taiwan

University, College of Public Health, Taipei, Taiwan

and a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health

from National Taiwan University, College of Public

Health. His fields of expertise are: Occupational and

Environmental Epidemiology, Heavy Metal Analysis、Biostatistics, and Air Pollution.

Claire Choo Wan

Yuen


Malaya

Claire Choo is currently an associate professor in the

Department of Social and Preventive Medicine,

University of Malaya. Her areas of research interest

include violence, aging, child and adolescent health.

Popy Yuniar [email protected] University of

Indonesia

Popy Yuniar works in the Department of Biostatistics

and Population Studies, and is majoring Health

informatics, Faculty of Public Health at the University

of Indonesia. Her expertise is in health information

systems, health information systems development,

indicator development, information system assessment

and system design.

Ying Zhang [email protected] University of

Sydney

Dr Ying Zhang is a senior lecturer of international

public health at the University of Sydney, Australia. She

is an epidemiologist with a multi-disciplinary

background. Dr Zhang’s research interests include

climate change and population health, polypharmacy

among older people, and sustainability in global health.

She has over ten years experience in research on climate

and health, including some pioneering work on

examining the health impact of climate change and

extreme heat in Australia and China. Dr Zhang’s

research has been recognized internationally and now

has a focus on the Asia-Pacific Region. Dr Zhang is

currently an elected council member of the International

Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Asia

Chapter. She is Co-Chair for the Association of Pacific

Rim Universities (APRU) Environmental Health

Working Group.

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