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The Department of Global Environmental Health (GEH) was established in April 2018 under the School of Public Health (SPH), Graduate School of Medicine, and has been affiliated as an Associate Department with the School of International Health (SIH) since July 2018. It admits both master's and doctoral students.
The GEH is dedicated to:
Advancing scientific understanding of the relationships between environmental exposure and human health
Fostering highly qualified professionals with the knowledge and competencies to undertake environmental epidemiological research
Research
Research
In environmental epidemiology, our research focuses on the impacts of climate change and air pollution on human populations. We examine how these factors are linked to health, quantify their associated health risks, and investigate the social determinants that may modify the exposure-response relationships.
Our research collaborations include:
Seasonal variability of suicide and its short-term associations with ambient temperature and air pollution, as part of the Multi-Country Multi-City (MCC) Collaborative Research Network
Health risk assessment of climate change and air pollution in Asian countries, including Japan, South Korea, China, and Thailand
Climate change and its health impacts in Kiribati, a Pacific island nation
Education
Education
We offer two postgraduate courses:
Environmental Health. It introduces the fundamental concepts and methods used to assess potential relationships between environmental stressors and health outcomes at both the individual and population levels.
Methods for Environmental Health Research. It is an advanced course on the statistical and epidemiological methodologies used to estimate the short-term effects of environmental risk factors on human health.
Research topics for students
Research topics for students
Students in GEH are expected to develop their research topics, primarily focusing on health risk assessment for climate change and outdoor air pollution, e.g., investigating an association between all-cause or cause-specific mortality and weather factors or air pollutants using single- and multi-country data.
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