Project Researcher 坂元晴香 |
Academic title
M.D., M.PH. Ph.D. Health policy, health financing, global health governance, health diplomacy |
Education
2016 - 2021 | Doctoral Student, Department of Global Health Policy, The University of Tokyo, Japan |
2014 | MPH, Harvard School of Public Health |
2008 | Bachelor of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University |
Employment (Selected)
2019-present | Consultant, WHO Western Pacific Regional Office |
2019-present | Assistant Professor, Department of International Affairs and Tropical Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University |
2019 | Consultant, World Bank |
2018-present | Consultant, Gates Foundation Tokyo Branch |
2018-2019 | Consultant, World Health Organization (UHC 2030) |
2017-2019 | Adjunct Lecturer, Department of International Affairs and Tropical Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan |
2016-present | Project Researcher, Department of Global Health Policy, University of Tokyo |
2016-2017 | Deputy Director, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan |
2013-2014 | Researcher, Center for Clinical Epidemiology, St. Luke's International Hospital, Japan |
2011-2013 | Section Chief, Department of International Affairs, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan |
2011-2013 | Section Chief, Department of Maternal and Child Health Care, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan |
2008-2011 | General Practitioner, Department of General Internal Medicine, St Luke's International Hospital, Japan |
Publications
Sakamoto H , Ghaznavi C, Shibuya K, . Country Chapter 7 - Japan . In Legido-Quigley H, Asgari-Jirhandeh N, editors. Resilient and people-centred health systems: Progress, challenges and future directions in Asia. New Delhi: World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2018.
Sakamoto H, Lee S, Ishizuka A, Hinoshita E, Hori H, Ishibashi N, Komada K, Norizuki M, Katsuma Y, Akashi H, Shibuya K. Challenges and opportunities for eliminating tuberculosis - leveraging political momentum of the UN high-level meeting on tuberculosis. BMC Public Health. 2019;19:76.
Sakamoto H, Ezoe S, Hara K, Hinoshita E, Sekitani Y, Abe K, Inada H, Kato T, Komada K, Miyakawa M, Yamaya H, Yamamoto N, Abe SK, Shibuya K. Japan's contribution to making global health architecture a top political agenda by leveraging the G7 presidency. Journal of Global Health. 2018;8(2).
Han SM, Rahman MM, Rahman MS, Swe KT, Palmer M, Sakamoto H, Nomura S, Shibuya K. Progress towards universal health coverage in Myanmar: a national and subnational assessment. The Lancet Global Health. 2018; 9: e989-e997.
Sakamoto H , Ezoe S, Hara K, Hinoshita E, Sekitani Y, Abe K, Inada H, Kato T, Komada K, Miyakawa M, Yamaya H, Yamamoto N, Abe SK, Shibuya K. The G7 presidency and universal health coverage, Japan’s contribution . Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2018; 96:355–359.
Sakamoto H , Rahman MM, Nomura S, Okamoto E, Koike S, Yasunaga H et al. Japan Health System Review . Vol. 8 No. 1. New Delhi: World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2018.
Ezoe S, Noda H, Akahane N, Sato O, Hama T, Miyata T, Terahara T, Fujishita M, Sakamoto H, Abe SK, Gilmour S, Shobayashi T. Trends in policy on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in Japan. Health Systems & Reform. 2017; 3(4): 268-277.
Nomura S, Sakamoto H, Glenn S, Tsugawa Y, Abe SK, Rahman MM, Brown JC, Ezoe S, Fitzmaurice C, Inokuchi T, Kassebaum NJ, Kawakami N, Kita Y, Kondo N, Lim SS, Maruyama S, Miyata H, Mooney MD, Naghavi M, Onoda T, Erika O, Otake Y, Roth GA, Saito E, Tabuchi T, Takasaki Y, Taimura T, Uechi M, Vos T, Wang H, Inoue M, Murray CJL, Shibuya K. Population health and regional variations of disease burden in Japan, 1990–2015: a systematic subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet. 2017; 390(10101): 1521-1538.
Yoshida H, Sakamoto H, Leslie A, Takahashi O, Tsuboi S, Kitamura K. Contraception in Japan: Current trends. Contraception. 2016; 93(6):475-477.
Takenoshita S, Nomura K, Ohde S, Deshpande G, Sakamoto H et al. Having a Mentor or a Doctoral Degree in helpful for mid-career physicians to publish papers in peer reviewed journals. The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine. 2016; 239(4): 325-331