Research Areas
- Urban Health
- Cities are major economic hubs and much of the population in the future is expected to inhabit urban areas rather than rural areas. Rapid development and growing socioeconomic pressures in cities may lead to a greater vulnerability to environmental changes that can negatively affect the health of its populace. We conduct epidemiological studies to investigate the links between urban health and environmental changes (e.g., urban heat island and air pollution), and to identify the possible moderating effects of individual and socioeconomic factors that can modify these relationships.
- Hayon Michelle Choi, Whanhee Lee, Dominic Roye, Seulkee Heo, Aleš Urban, Alireza Entezari, Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, Antonella Zanobetti, Antonio Gasparrini, Antonis Analitis, Aurelio Tobias, Ben Armstrong, Bertil Forsberg, Carmen Íñiguez, Christofer Åström, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Ene Indermitte, Eric Lavigne, Fatemeh Mayvaneh, Fiorella Acquaotta, Francesco Sera, Hans Orru, Ho Kim, Jan Kyselý, Joana Madueira, Joel Schwartz, Jouni J.K. Jaakkola, Klea Katsouyanni, Magali Hurtado Diaz, Martina S. Ragettli, Masahiro Hashizume, Mathilde Pascal, Niilo Ryti, Noah Scovronick, Samuel Osorio, Shilu Tong, Xerxes Seposo, Yasushi Honda, Yoonhee Kim, Yue-Liang Guo, Yuming Guo, Michelle L. Bell. Corrigendum to “Effect modification of greenness on the association between heat and mortality: A multi-city multi-country study”. eBioMedicine. 2023, 87: 104396.
- Yamasaki L, Nomura S. Global warming and the Summer Olympic and Paralympic games: a perspective from the Tokyo 2020 Games. Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine. 2022; 27(0): 7.
- Iwaki Y, Rauniyar SK, Nomura S, Huang MC. Assessing factors associated with TB awareness in Nepal: a national and subnational study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(10).
- Andrew Stickley, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Chiho Watanabe, Yosuke Inoue, Ai Koyanagi, Shoko Konishi. General thoughts of death and mortality: findings from the Komo-Ise cohort, Japan. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 2018; 28(6): 662-669.
- Andrew Stickley, Chris Fook Sheng Ng *, Yosuke Inoue, Aki Yazawa, Ai Koyanagi, Manami Kodaka, Jordan E. DeVylder, Chiho Watanabe. Birthdays are associated with an increased risk of suicide in Japan: evidence from 27,007 deaths in Tokyo in 2001- 2010. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2016; 200: 259–265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.04.028.
- Ng CFS, Hashizume M, Obase Y, Doi M, Tamura K, Tomari S, Kawano T, Fukushima C, Matsuse H, Chung Y, Kim Y, Kunimitsu K, Kohno S, Mukae H. Associations of chemical composition and sources of PM2.5 with lung function of severe asthmatic adults in a low air pollution environment of urban Nagasaki, Japan. Environ Pollut. 2019;252(Pt A):599-606. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2019.05.117.