Education & Training
Our Approach to Education & Training
Our lab emphasizes two goals in education and training.
1. We will require students to develop the following skills, scientific thinking, handling the data carefully, and courage of facing to disease and disaster without hesitation—they are need no matter what field they pursue after graduation. Regarding the ability to think scientifically, they will learn to critically examine texts and to obtain a fundamental understanding of epidemiology, disaster public health, genomes, and artificial intelligence.
2. To ensure our students obtain the necessary skills and knowledge suiting their individual aspirations and characteristics.
Through fulfilling these two goals, our aim is to develop our students
so they become highly specialized professionals who can flourish in their
chosen field, whether it be academic research or profession. For further
details, please refer to our Research Areas & Objectives.
Research Areas & Objectives
Research Areas
1. Molecular Epidemiology
2. Life-Course Epidemiology
3. Disaster Public Health
4. Precision Public Health
5. Other Epidemiology & Public Health Studies
Attainment Targets for the Master’s Course
1. Understand epidemiology comprehensively, from its foundations to applications.
2. Learn about fundamental statistics, from their foundations to applications.
3. Learn to read papers critically.
4. Understand how to establish research hypotheses.
5. Develop the skill to manage the epidemiological research focusing data collection.
6. Develop the capability to analyze data using SAS.
7. Develop the capability to summarize research findings and to present them at academic conferences in Japan.
8. Develop the capability to summarize research findings and publish them in Japanese-language papers.
Attainment Targets for the Doctoral Course
1. Understand epidemiology, from its foundations to applications.
2. Understand the foundations of genome medicine.
3. Develop the capability to read papers critically.
4. Develop the capability to establish research hypotheses.
5. Develop the capability to propose research plans.
6. Develop the capability to formally write research plans and have them reviewed by ethics committees.
7. Develop the capability to carry out preparations and adjustments to conduct research.
8. Develop the skill to manage the epidemiological research focusing data collection.
9. Develop the capability to demonstrate leadership when conducting research.
10. Develop the capability to monitor data.
11. Develop the capability to analyze data using SAS, R, and Python.
12. Develop the capability to carry out the “dry” parts of GWAS, WES analysis, and WGS analysis.
13. Develop the capability to analyze data using AI analysis tools.
14. Develop the capability to summarize research findings and present them at international academic conferences.
15. Develop the capability to summarize research findings and publish them in English-language papers.
16. Develop the capability to respond to reviewers’ comments when publishing English-language papers.
17. Develop the capability to communicate research findings through multiple channels.
18. Develop the capability to implement research findings socially.
19. Develop the capability to apply for competitive funding and to acquire research funding.
20. Develop the capability to be a leader in epidemiology, life-course epidemiology, disaster-related public health, and precision public health.
Objectives for Educators
1. Develop the capability to write review articles in Japanese.
2. Develop the capability to write review articles in English.
3. Develop the capability to help students write papers.
Admissions
○Disaster Public Health (Master of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Master of Public Health)
https://irides.tohoku.ac.jp/eng/organization/medical/publichealth.html
This field contributes to improving the health of local residents by conducting long-term health surveys and providing preemptive medical care so that the root causes of problems—a rise in diseases following a large-scale disaster—are addressed.
This field is a department of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science. Applicants need to pass the entrance examination of Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine. Students will take classes and seminars mainly at the Seiryo Campus.
○Molecular Epidemiology (Master of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences)
https://www.med.tohoku.ac.jp/english/about/laboratory/102.html
While epidemiology is the science of researching the distribution and causes of disease in human populations, molecular epidemiology goes one step further by using the latest molecular biological methods. In molecular epidemiology, we focus on molecular epidemiological studies of lifestyle-related diseases and elucidating the causes of developmental disorders.
Both fields accept laboratory visits at any time. Please contact us in advance to arrange a visit.
Tel: +81-22-717-8104
Email: secretary[at]molepi.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp (Please replace “[at]” with “@”)
Please visit the following link for information
Graduate School of Medicine and the admissions test
