Department of Public Health
This department is dedicated for an integrated discipline consisted of many kinds of occupations conducting development and practice of Medical and Health system based on local communities, addressing the resolution of various health problems and engaging in research for medical and health issues which should be urgently dealt with and their causes. Our goal is to cultivate high-level medical professions oriented to both of Japan and Asia competent in practicing comprehensive healthcare in a global point of view and global leaders specialized in medical treatment, health, public hygiene and infection diseases capable of overcoming various problems in the international society and to be a research center for health science practicing devoted for investigation of health issues of the country and overseas.
Division
Community Health Sciences
In order to resolve the various problems that exist locally from a scientific perspective, we provide an education to train researchers and advanced public community health specialists as well as to produce professionals with comprehensive practical skills and high-level management skills in community healthcare and public health nursing. A master level program obtained the national exam qualification for public health nurses offers in fiscal 2016.
Teaching Staff
Prof.: Hisako Izumi, Noriyuki Nishimura
Associate Prof.: Kimiko Nakayama
Health Sciences
We scientifically analyze lifestyle diseases related to diet, exercise, and sleep with the primary aim of preventing lifestyle diseases and maintaining health, and identify new findings beneficial to the maintenance of health. We particularly promote research into diabetes and respiratory disorders.
Teaching Staff
Prof.: Hisafumi Yasuda, Akira Ishikawa
Global Infectious Diseases
Our division consists of researchers specializing in virology, bacteriology, parasitology, pathology and clinical medicine. We conduct a pioneering research at the cutting edge of medical science and contribute to innovations in the fields of infectious disease epidemiology, infection control measures, pathogen diagnostics, vaccine development and new drug discovery. Our laboratories are providing excellent educational opportunities for the world-class students.
Teaching Staff
Prof.: Toshiro Shirakawa (Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation), Masanori Kameoka
Associate Prof.: Hideyuki Iriko
Global Health
The perspective of global health is essential to achieve "Health For All" and/or "Universal Health Coverage" as slogans of UN/WHO. The problems of emerging infectious diseases, natural disaster, and environmental degradation are not closed within the nation, but easily spreading over the world through transportation of materials and people. On the other side, the people who have to live under the unaccustomed environment and foreign culture through international labor migration or other kinds of migration are increasing, which brought the needs of transcultural primary care. Under such circumstances, through the researches conducted within the nation and abroad, our division is tackling with the problem finding and solution activity in various field and clinical settings.
Teaching Staff
Prof.: Minato Nakazawa
Associate Prof.: Kazuhiro Izawa, Sayaka Kotera
Preventive Healthcare(Collaboration courses)
Kobe University will collaborate with the National Institute of Health and Nutrition (NIHN), which is part of the National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN), to provide education on acquiring a wide range of cutting-edge knowledge (epidemiology, nutrition, kinesiology, and energy metabolism) and skills (measurement of nutrients, energy metabolism, and physical activity) necessary for new health science research based on knowledge of exercise and nutrition, as well as cultivate an overall perspective on this research.
Teaching Staff
Prof.: Rei Ono
Associate Prof.: Eiichi Yoshimura, Yosuke Yamada
Community Health Sciences
- Professor Hisako Izumi
- Professor Noriyuki Nishimura
- Associate Professor Kimiko Nakayama
- Lecturer Kumiko Ono
Health Sciences
- Professor Akira Ishikawa
- Professor Hisafumi Yasuda
- Lecturer Kohsuke Yoshida
Global Infectious Diseases
- Professor Masanori Kameoka
- Professor Toshiro Shirakawa
- Associate Professor Hideyuki Iriko
- Lecturer Chie Utusbo
Global Health
- Professor Minato Nakazawa
- Professor Mitsuaki Matsui
- Associate Professor Kazuhiro Izawa
- Associate Professor Sayaka Kotera
Preventive Healthcare(Collaboration courses)
- Professor Rei Ono
- Associate Professor Eiichi Yoshimura
- Associate Professor Yosuke Yamada