Author: Airi

On May 14, the Japan Agency for Gerontological Evaluation and Research (JAGES) hosted a webinar-style symposium titled “Resilience to Health Crises and Turning Crises into Opportunities: Novel Coronavirus Infections and Natural Disasters.

Assistant Professor Goryu Sato gave a presentation on “The impact of the new coronavirus infection on the lives and health of the elderly”.

Naoki Kondo presented “Learning from the Kumamoto Earthquake”.

JAGES Symposium on Disaster and Health Risk Management (WHO Kobe Center, in Japanese)

Symposium Outline (PDF, in Japanese)

Outline of the Symposium
Organizer: Japan Agency for Gerontological Evaluation and Research (JAGES)
Supported by: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Cabinet Office, Government Policy Director-General for Disaster Management (in charge of disaster prevention), Japan Agency for Medical Care and Development (AMED) (in alphabetical order)

Date and Time: Friday, May 14, 2021, 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Zoom
Participation fee: Free
Target audience: Local government officials, researchers, and individuals interested in health and longevity initiatives, and companies interested in industry-government-academia collaboration for the realization of a healthy society with longevity.

On May 25, 2021, Assistant Professor Kosuke Inoue spoke at a twitter live hosted by the American Heart Association.

He was selected as a speaker for the twitter live because he published a paper in Hypertension in 2020 and the paper was selected as a High Impact Paper for Fall 2020.

References
Inoue K, Goldwater D, Allison M, Seeman T, Kestenbaum BR, Watson KE. Serum Aldosterone Concentration, Blood Pressure, and Coronary Artery Calcium: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Hypertension. 2020 Jul;76(1):113-120. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.15006. Epub 2020 May 18. Erratum In: Hypertension. 2021 Mar 3;77(3):e34. PMID: 32418495.

Click here to visit Kosuke Inoue’s website.

The Osaka Public Health Seminar: Social Determinants of Health in Japan will be held again this year.
Dr. Naomi Kondo will be speaking at the seminar on August 9.

Monday, August 9, 12:00 – 12:45 Lecture 16
Social prescribing  Naoki KONDO (Kyoto University)

If you are not a faculty member or a student of Osaka University, you can participate only via web (Zoom).
1. If you wish to participate, please register using the registration form.
Deadline for registration : Sunday, July 18, 2021
Click here for the detailed program.
The URL and ID for joining Zoom will be sent to you by e-mail the day before each day. Registration Form URL:
https://forms.gle/QUJHy7kup6CFraV27

On December 13, 2020, Mariko Kanamori, a special research student, gave a lecture on “The Curious Relationship between Gender Norms and Mental Health: An Invitation to Social Epidemiology Research” at an online event on veterinarian work style reform.

The event was also introduced in the magazine “Clinical Veterinary Medicine” (in Japanese).

Clinical Veterinarian, June 2021 issue
Seminar Report
A Seminar on “Reforming the Work Styles of Veterinarians Starting from Here: The Future Envisioned by Animal Girls
Chigako Tani

I believe that an environment that is friendly to animals can also be friendly to people. It is important to create an environment where people can feel free to discuss their concerns.

Mariko Kanamori’s website is here.

Assistant Professor Kosuke Inoue has been writing a series of lectures on causal inference for clinical and epidemiological research in the Igakukai Shimbun (in Japanese).

Part 3: Using DAG for Causal Inference 2021.06.07
Part 2: What is Causal Inference Anyway?　May 10, 2021
Part 1: Making Medical Research More Accessible and Wonderful with Causal Inference!　2021.04.05

Assistant Professor Kosuke Inoue’s latest article “Lecture on Causal Inference for Clinical and Epidemiological Research,” serialized in Igakukai Shimbun, has been published.

[No.4] Estimating causal effects by stratified analysis
(From Weekly Igaku Kaikai Shimbun (regular issue): No. 3427, 2021.07.05, in Japanese)

The website of Kosuke Inoue is here.

Naoki Kondo gave a keynote speech at the seminar “Management of lifestyle-related disease prevention/improvement programs in the wake of the Corona disaster” at Sports&Wellness Week 2021, a comprehensive exhibition featuring more than 650 companies with products and services related to sports, fitness, and health.

Sports&Wellness Week 2021
Seminar: Management of lifestyle-related disease prevention/improvement programs in the context of coronary heart disease
Date: June 18, 2021
Website: Sports & WellnessWeek2021

Keynote Speech
Naoki Kondo
“Health disparities in coronary heart disease: How to build a system to address them”

Click here to see previous lectures by Naoki Kondo.

Naoki Kondo co-authored and Satoru Kanamori of Teikyo University Graduate School published a new paper in the Journal of Occupational Health. Using data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES), the paper reports on the relationship between the size of the company in which the oldest Japanese men worked the longest and social participation and mortality.

We have made a short movie to introduce the paper. You can download it here.

Kanamori S, Kondo N, Takamiya T, Kikuchi H, Inoue S, Tsuji T, Kai Y, Muto G, Kondo K. Social participation and mortality according to company size of the longest-held job among older men in Japan: A 6-year follow-up study from the JAGES. J Occup Health. 2021 Jan;63(1):e12216. doi: 10.1002/1348-9585.12216. PMID: 33792124.