Division of Disaster Public Health, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University

Our Mission

Our lab has three missions.
  1. To apply public health methods to spread awareness on how to respond to large-scale disasters.
  2. To apply life-course epidemiology methods to formulate health improvement throughout all stages of life and realize very early stage intervention in life.
  3. To apply molecular epidemiological methods to better understand the pathophysiology of multifactorial diseases, including autism spectrum disorders.
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News & Topics

02/07/2025
A paper about the association between maternal fasting plasma glucose level in early gestation and developmental delay in children has been published.NEW
01/24/2025
Publications were updated.
11/20/2024
A paper about skin health survey on atopic dermatitis among Japanese children has been published in Allergology International.
06/24/2024
A paper examining the association between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and offspring developmental delay was published
06/24/2024
A paper by PhD student Ohseto which examines perinatal depression classified based on depressive symptom trajectories and genetic architecture has been published in Depression and Anxiety.
06/11/2024
A Letter to the editor authored by Ippei Takahashi, a third-year doctoral student, published in JAMA Pediatrics.
06/11/2024
At the Asia Pacific Academic Consortium of Public Health (APACPH) conference held in Malaysia, Mustakim, a fourth-year doctoral student did an oral presentation
05/27/2024
An article authored by Ippei Takahashi, a third-year doctoral student, published in JAMA Pediatrics has been named Most Viewed Articles 2023 in JAMA Pediatrics
03/21/2024
Chikana Kawaguchi, a third-year doctoral student, gave a poster presentation at the 82nd annual meeting of Japanese Society of Public Health in Tsukuba, Japan
03/21/2024
At the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP) Annual Meeting held in Indonesia, Miyu Abe, a second-year master's student, received the Third Poster Prize
03/11/2023
Publications were updated.
04/05/2023
Staff Members were updated.
02/06/2023
Publications were updated.
01/16/2023
Staff Members were updated.
01/21/2022
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01/26/2021
Publications were updated.
07/13/2020
We will have server maintenance from 9 pm to midnight on July 21.
You will not be able to browse the website during that time.
04/01/2020
Staff Members were updated.
02/14/2020
We renewed our site.