Yoonhee Kim, MPH, PhD
Professional experience
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Since Apr 2018
Assistant Professor, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University, South Korea
Researcher, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
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Education
Ph.D. in Public Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, South Korea
Master of Public Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, South Korea
Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, South Korea
Selected publications
Kim Y*, Antikainen H, Watanabe H, Hashizume M, Kim H, Jaakkola J, Ryti N. A nationwide epidemiological study on the associations between ambient particulate matter and suicide in Finland. Nature Mental Health 2024. [Full text]
Kim Y*, Oka K, Kawazu EC, Ng CFS, Seposo X, Ueda K, Hashizume M, Honda Y. Enhancing Health Resilience in Japan in a Changing Climate. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific 2023:100970. [Full text] [The Series]
Thawonmas R, Hashizume M, Kim Y*. Projections of temperature-related suicide under climate change scenarios in Japan. Environmental Health Perspectives 2023:131(11):117012. [Full text]
Pan R, Honda Y, Minakuchi E, Kim SE, Hashizume M, Kim Y*. Ambient Temperature and External Causes of Death in Japan from 1979 to 2015: A Time-stratified Case-crossover Analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives 2022:130(4):047004. [Full text]
Kim Y, Park EH, Ng CFS, Chung Y, Hashimoto K, Tashiro K, Hasunuma H, Doi M, Tamura K, Moriuchi H, Nishiwaki Y, Kim H, Yi S-M, Kim H, Hashizume M. Respiratory function declines in children with asthma associated with chemical species of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Nagasaki, Japan. Environ Health 2021:20:110 [Full text].
Yu J, Yang D, Kim Y, Hashizume M, Gasparrini A, Armstrong B, Honda Y, Tobias A, Sera F, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Kim H, Íñiguez C, Lavigne E, Ragettli MS, Scovronick N, Acquaotta F, Chen B, Guo YL, Coelho MSZS, Saldiva PHN, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Bell ML, Diaz M, Valencia CDC, Holobâc I, Fratianni S, Chung Y. Seasonality of Suicide: A Multi-Country Multi-Community Observational Study. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 2020:29: e163. [Full text]
Hashizume M, Kim Y, Ng CFS, Chung Y, Madaniyazi L, Bell ML, Guo YL, Kan H, Honda Y, Yi SM, Kim H, Nishiwaki Y. Health effects of Asian dust: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives 2020:128(6): 066001. [Full text] Highlighted in Science Selection
Sim K, Kim Y, Hashizume M, Gasparrini A, Armstrong B, Sera F, Ng CFS, Honda Y, Chung Y. Nonlinear temperature-suicide association in Japan from 1972–2015: its heterogeneity and the role of climate, demographic, and socioeconomic factors. Environment International 2020:142: 105829. [Full text]
Kim Y*, Kim H, Gasparrini A, Armstrong B, Honda Y, Chung Y, Ng CFS, Tobias A, Íñiguez C, Lavigne E, Sera F, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Ragettli MS, Scovronick N, Acquaotta F, Chen BY, Guo YLL, Seposo X, Dang TN, Coelho MSZS, Saldiva PHN, Kosheleva A, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Bell ML, Hashizume M. Suicide and Ambient Temperature: A Multi-Country Multi-City Study. Environmental Health Perspectives 2019:127(11):117007. [Full text] Highlighted in Science Selection
Kim Y, Ratnam JV, Doi T, Morioka Y, Behera S, Tsuzuki A, Minakawa N, Sweijd N, Kruger P, Maharaj R, Imai CC, Ng CFN, Chung Y, Hashizume M. Malaria predictions based on seasonal climate forecasts in South Africa: A time series distributed lag nonlinear model. Scientific Reports 2019:9:17882. [Full text]
Lee W, Kim Y, Honda Y, Kim H. Association between diurnal temperature range and mortality modified by temperature in Japan, 1972-2015: investigation of spatial and temporal patterns for 12 cause-specific deaths. Environment International 2018:119:379-387.
Kim Y, Ng CFS, Chung Y, Kim H, Honda Y, Guo YL, Lim Y-H, Chen B-Y, Page LA, Hashizume M. Air Pollution and Suicide in 10 Cities in Northeast Asia: A Time-Stratified Case-Crossover Analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2018:126(3):037002. [Full text] Highlighted in Science Selection
Kim Y, Gasparrini A, Hashizume M, Honda Y, Ng CFS, Armstrong B. Heat-related mortality in Japan after the 2011 Fukushima disaster: An analysis of potential influence of reduced electricity consumption. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2017:125(7):077005. [Full text] Highlighted in Science Selection
Kim Y, Kim H, Hong Y-C. Transmission of energy-saving efficiency from obese parents to their offspring: the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007-2011. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2016 Apr;70(4):511-516.
Kim Y, Kim H, Honda Y, Guo YL, Chen B-Y, Woo J-M, Ebi KL. Suicide and ambient temperature in East Asian countries: A time-stratified case-crossover analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives 2016:124(1);75-80. [Full text]
Kim Y, Kim H, Shin S-D, Hong Y-C. Different influence of outdoor temperature on traumatic and non-traumatic injuries. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Surgery 2012;73(4):944-949.
Kim Y, Kim H, Kim D-S. Association between daily environmental temperature and suicide mortality in Korea (2001-2005). Psychiatry Research 2011;186:390-396.
Funding
JSPS KAKENHI Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research-C, Apr 2024 – Mar 2027. 24K10701.
The University of Tokyo Excellent Young Researcher (東京大学卓越研究員) Apr 2019 – Mar 2024.
JSPS KAKENHI Grants-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Apr 2019 – Mar 2023, 19K17104.
JSPS KAKENHI Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists-B, Apr 2016 – Mar 2018, 16K19773.
Honors & Awards
UTokyo Global Activity Support Program for Young Researchers (AY2024).
The University of Tokyo Excellent Young Researcher (東京大学卓越研究員) 令和元年度.
AUA (Asian Universities Alliance) Scholars Award 2019-2020.
Outstanding Presentation Award 2013. The Korean Society of Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, South Korea.
Best Paper Award 2011. Korean Forum for Climate Change & Health, Yonsei University, South Korea.