Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Masahiro Hashizume, University of Tokyo, Japan
Masahiro Hashizume is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the School of International Health, University of Tokyo, Japan. He received his academic degrees from the Nippon Medical School (MD, 1996), The University of Tokyo (MS, 1999) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MSc 2003, PhD 2007). Dr. Hashizume’s research has centered on epidemiological studies to estimate the impact of climatic variability and climate change on the incidence of infectious diseases and non-infectious diseases, and adaptation and vulnerability assessment. Since 2014, he has been acting as Editor-in-Chief of Tropical Medicine and Health.
 

Editorial Advisors
Peter Piot, PhD, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Peter Piot MD PhD is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Professor of Global Health. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008, and was an Associate Director of the Global Programme on AIDS at WHO. Under his leadership UNAIDS became the chief advocate for worldwide action against AIDS, also spearheading UN reform by bringing together 10 UN system organizations.


Mark Wilson, PhD, University of Michigan, USA
Dr Mark Wilson is a molecular immunologist interested in anti-helminth immunity and allergic disease biology at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. Mark obtained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, investigating the impact of helminth infection on allergic reactivity before carrying out his postdoctoral training at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA. Mark established his own research group at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Mill Hill, London in 2010 before transitioning to the Francis Crick Institute in 2015.
 

Deputy Editors
Kenzo Takahashi, MD, MHS, PhD Teikyo University, Japan
Dr. Kenzo TAKAHASHI, MD, MHS, PhD is a public health specialist and pediatrician who majors in global community health, maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and infectious disease policy. After graduation of School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 1994, he started his career as a pediatrician at university hospital, southern isolated island hospital and urban hospitals. In 2003, he started new career of public health researcher as an assistant professor at Juntendo University. Then he worked as deputy director, International Affairs Division, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Since 2014, he has engaged in public health education as a professor at Graduate School of Public Health, Teikyo University.

Michiko Toizumi, PhD, Nagasaki University, Japan
Dr. Michiko Toizumi is a pediatrician and researcher on pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases. She completed her Master of Tropical Medicine and PhD in Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University. She is currently working at the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University and involved in international collaborative researches on pneumococcus, respiratory viruses, dengue, zika, and vaccine preventive diseases such as rubella, pertussis, and diphtheria, in Vietnam.


Editors
Koya Ariyoshi, Nagasaki University, Japan
Dr. Koya Ariyoshi is a professor of clinical tropical medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University. He is also an honorary professor of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He graduated from the Asahikawa Medical University, Japan and studied clinical tropical medicine in the LSHTM. He was heavily involved in HIV-2 research projects in The Gambia, West Africa. Since joining Nagasaki University, he has been leading a number of clinical research with a broad range of topics, in particular, pneumonia, tropical infectious diseases, and HIV/AIDS in Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand.

Chris Fook Sheng Ng, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Chris Fook Sheng Ng is an Associate Professor at the School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He received his academic degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (BSc 2002), University of Malaya (Master of Applied Statistics, 2005), and The University of Tokyo (PhD 2011). His research is in the field of environmental epidemiology focusing on the health effects of air pollutants and meteorological factors, with a strong interest in statistical methods.


Togoobaatar Ganchimeg, PhD, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Dr. Togoobaatar Ganchimeg is a medical doctor qualified in Mongolia, and currently working as assistant professor at department  of Global Health Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tsukuba. She received MSc and Ph.D in International Health from University of Tokyo. While studying, she attended intern training program at the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at WHO headquarters, Geneva and involved WHO multi-country studies. Conducted her postdoctoral research studies at the National Center for Child Health and Development, Japan. Maternity health care services, quality of care, women’s childbirth experience, adolescent pregnancy and maternal and newborn, child health in low-and middle-income countries.

Moritoshi Iwagami, PhD, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan