Principal Investigators 

Professor Otani (DDS, MPH, MS, PhD) serves as Regional Director of the East Asian Center for Academic Initiatives (Shanghai Office) of Osaka University. She obtained her DDS from Osaka University, her MPH in international health and MS in population science from Harvard University, and her PhD from the London School of Economics. She has worked for the World Bank and the World Health Organization. Her areas of specialisation include international health and population, social development studies, area studies, and research methodology. She has looked at disaster-affected areas of Kobe in Japan, Sichuan in China and New Zealand. She was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand fellowship to conduct research in Christchurch at the University of Canterbury in 2013 and the Australian Academy of Science fellowship for School of Population and Global Health, Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety of the University of Melbourne in 2015. Her publications include Older People in Natural Disasters, Kyoto University Press, 2010, and Reconstructing Resilient Communities after the Wenchuan Earthquake: Disaster Recovery in China, Lexington Roman Littlefield, 2023. 

大谷順子（おおたに じゅんこ）

大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科　教授・国際交流室室長。

大阪大学歯学部卒。ハーバード公衆衛生大学院　MPH 国際保健学 MS 人口学。ロンドン経済政治大学院・衛生熱帯医学校　PhD.　世界銀行、世界保健機関（WHO）、九州大学を経て、2008年に大阪大学に着任。2014-2017年阪大東アジアセンター長（上海拠点）兼任。2013年カンタベリー大学客員教授（ニュージーランド王立学士院）、2015年メルボルン大学客員教授（オーストラリア科学院）。主な著書:『事例研究の革新的方法─阪神淡路大震災被災高齢者の五年と高齢化社会の未来像』九州大学出版会、2006年・新装版2015年。“Older People in Natural Disasters”, Kyoto University Press, 2010.『国際保健政策からみた中国—政策実施の現場から』九州大学出版会、2007年。『四川大地震から学ぶ—復興のなかのコミュニティと「中国式レジリエンス」の構築』九州大学出版会、2021年。“Reconstructing Resilient Communities after the Wenchuan Earthquake: Disaster Recovery in China”, Lexington Roman Littlefield, 2023.

Professor Gibbs is a member of the Asia Pacific Disaster Mental Health Network and leads a major disaster research program at the University of Melbourne, Australia which has influenced disaster recovery approaches internationally. Her work focuses on risk and protective factors for health and wellbeing following disaster exposure for individuals and affected communities. She works in partnership with government, service providers, and communities to facilitate an exchange between those with policy insights, service knowledge, lived experience and academic evidence. This ensures the research outputs are rigorous, relevant and easily accessible for use in disaster settings. 

アジア太平洋災害精神保健ネットワークメンバー。災害復興アプローチ研究で国際的影響を与えているメルボルン大学において大規模災害研究プログラムを主導。。研究活動としては、災害後の個人と被災地での保健とウェルビーイングに関するリスク要因・保護要因の研究を進めている。政府、サービス提供者、コミュニティと協力し、政策の洞察、サービスに関する知識、実体験、学術的証拠を持つ人々の交流を促進している。これにより、研究成果が厳密で適切なものとなり、災害時に適切に対応できるようになる。

Organisers

Paola CAVALIERE is an Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Sciences, and the Associate Director of the Human Sciences International Undergraduate Programme. She holds a BA in Japanese Language and Literature (University of Venice, Italy) and received a double PhD degree in East Asian Studies (University of Sheffield, UK) and Law (Tōhoku University, Japan). Her research interests are in the area of gender, religious civil society and disaster in Japan. She is the author of Promising practices: Women volunteers in Japanese religious civil society and has published extensively on a gendered approach to Japanese faith-based volunteering and disaster, including the COVID-19 pandemic. She has been a recipient of multiple JSPS Kakenhi grants since 2015.

大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科特任准教授。イタリア・ヴェネツィア大学日本学科で学んだ後、国費外国人留学生として来日、東京大学大学院人文社会系研究科修士課程に入学。2012年に英シェフィー ルド大学大学院東アジア研究科・東北大学大学院法学研究科国際共同博士号取得。専門はジェンダー視点に基づく宗教社会学と社会的災害学研究。2015年から科研費を得て災害にレジリエンスを生み出す宗教団体に所属する女性に関する研究を行う。著書は『Promising practices: Promising practices: Women volunteers in Japanese religious civil society』(Brill 2015)。災害時の宗教団体による復興活動やコロナ禍中の女性と宗教団体の役割などについて日英伊の三ヶ国語による報告書の公刊を通して、研究成果を広く社会に還元している。 

Jing LI was born in Sichuan Province, China. She receied a B.A. in Foreign Languages from Sichuan University and an M.A. in Human Sciences from the University of Osaka. She is currently a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Human Sciences, the University of Osaka and recipient of a scholarship from the Nomura Foundation (2022-2023).

李婧（LI JING）中国四川省出身。中国四川大学外国語学部卒業、大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科修士課程修了。現在、大阪大学大学院博士課程在学中。2022年度公益財団法人野村財団奨学生。

Lecturers

(Alphabetical order)

M.D., Ph.D. Sachiko Baba has been the Director of the Division of Community Health and Research, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital since 2022. She graduated from Osaka University Medical School in 2004, obtained Ph.D. in 2011, and worked as a postdoc in reproductive epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Before and after her stay in Sweden, she worked as an assistant prof. in maternal and child health and vice director of International Relations at Osaka U Med.  Currently, she oversees public health nurses in her hospital, leads a support team for girls and women facing unintended pregnancy, and co-organizes Osaka Unit Center of Japan Environment and Children’s Study.

馬場幸子（医学博士）は、2022年より大阪府立病院機構大阪母子医療センターに所属しています。2004年に大阪大学医学部卒業、2011年に博士号を取得、そしてスウェーデンのカロリンスカ研究所ポスドク研究員として勤務しました。スウェーデンに移る前、そして日本に帰国後、大阪大学医学部国際交流センター特任助教・副センター長として勤務しました。現在は、病院での公衆衛生看護を調査するとともに、予期せぬ妊娠に直面した女性を支援するチームを率い、子どもの健康と環境に関する全国調査の大阪大学センターを共催しています。

Julia Gerster currently works as Assistant Professor at the Disaster Culture and Archive Studies Division of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University. She received her PhD in Japanese Studies with a disciplinary focus on Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include cultural and collective memory of disasters in Japan, such as through disaster memorial museums, kataribe storytellers, preservation of negative heritage or various art forms.

Aya Goto is Professor of Health Information and Epidemiology at Fukushima Medical University (FMU) Center for Integrated Science and Humanities. She also serves as Professor of International Community Health at the Graduate School of Medicine and Deputy Chief of the Fukushima Health Management Survey (Pregnancy and Birth Survey) at FMU, and as a project manager for JICA's Evidence-Based Medicine promotion project in Vietnam. Dr. Goto's main research interests are reproductive health, parenting support, and health literacy. Her translational research has been conducted in close collaboration with local communities in Fukushima and Ho Chi Minh City, where it complements the capacity building of local health care professionals in health information as well as maternal and child health care. Since the Fukushima nuclear accident, Dr. Goto has been working closely with local public health nurses to help them respond appropriately to concerns among parents of small children about elevated background radiation. Recently, she started working with children in disaster-prone Asian countries toward health promotion and community development.

山形大学医学部卒、ハーバード大学公衆衛生大学大学院において公衆衛生修士（MPH）を取得後、山形大学大学院において医学博士を取得。2000~2001年（11か月） ポピュレーションカウンシル・ベトナム支部勤務を経て、2002~2016年 福島県立医科大学公衆衛生学講座に所属。現在は同大学総合科学教育研究センターおよび大学院医学研究科国際地域保健学教授、福島県県民健康調査「妊産婦に関する調査」副室長。2012~2013年にはハーバード公衆衛生大学院にて武見フェローとして研究に従事。家族計画や育児支援に関する疫学研究を地域の保健師と協働して行い、最近では英国ランカスター大学と共同で学童期の子どもを対象に参加型健康教育を展開している。人材育成活動として、福島県ではヘルスリテラシー研修を保健医療従事者対象に、ベトナムでは疫学研修を現地の医師生涯教育認定研修に組み入れて継続して実施している。 

Victoria Kaportseva is a research student at Graduate School of Human Sciences, Kyosei Studies (Critical Studies in Coexistence, Symbiosis and Conviviality), at Osaka University. In 2021 she graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of the Belarusian State University. After graduation, Victoria was selected for the “Research Student” program by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and began studying at Osaka University in April 2022.

Claire Leppold is a Research Fellow at the Child and Community Wellbeing Unit at the University of Melbourne. She previously worked for over five years on research about health inequalities following the 3.11 ‘triple disaster’ in Fukushima, Japan, before moving to Australia in late 2020. Claire currently leads the Disasters on Disasters program of work and the national evaluation of the Australian Red Cross Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Program. She works at the intersection of social sciences and critical public health and is especially interested in research on inequities and the social determinants of health during disaster recovery.  

クレア・レポルド博士は、メルボルン大学のChild and Community Wellbeing Unitのリサーチフェローです。3.11の「トリプル災害」後の健康格差に関する研究に5年以上従事し、2020年後半にオーストラリアに移住。現在は、Disasters on Disasters program of workとAustralian Red Cross Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Programの全国評価を担当している。社会科学と公衆衛生の接点で研究しており、特に災害復興期の不公平と健康の社会的決定要因に関する研究に関心がある。 

Takako Izumi is a professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, since 2013. She also serves as director of the Multi-Hazards Program under the Association of Pacific Lim Universities (APRU), which comprises 60 universities in the Pacific Lim. Previously she worked for an international NGO and UN agencies such as UN-Habitat, UNDRR, UNOCHA, and the UN Office for the Recovery Coordinator for Aceh and Nias in the fields of disaster response, recovery, and risk reduction. She has been appointed as a member of the UNDRR’s Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Advisory Group (APSTAG) since May 2015. She holds a Ph.D. in Global Environmental Study from Kyoto University, Japan.  

Katitza Marinkovic Chavez is a psychologist and researcher with 14 years of experience in Chile and Australia. Her current work focuses on applying participatory approaches to doing research with children and youth as co-researchers in the contexts of disasters and climate change. Katitza is also a member of the Steering Committee of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR) and the Kids in Action Network. Between 2014 – 2016 she was part of a multidisciplinary team that developed a Chilean mental healthcare model for emergencies and disasters, based on the Japanese experience of Kokoronokea.

Katitza MARINKOVIC CHÁVEZさんは心理学者です。１４年間チリとオーストラリアで研究をしました。現在は防災や気候変動について若者の参加を高めるために若者と共に研究をしています。ChavezさんはSteering Committee of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR) とthe Kids in Action Networkという組織の一員でもあります。2014年と2016年の間に、日本の心のケアの考え方を参考にしながら多くの学問領域にわたるチームとチリで実施できるような精神ケアの施設の構成を作りました。

After graduating from the University of Tokyo, and working as a pediatrician at Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital and Public Health Center, Dr Nakamura started introducing global health in Indonesia as an expert of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and to promoting the refugee health program in UNHCR Pakistan Office. Dr NAKAMURA was a Takemi Fellow (1996-97) at Harvard School of Public Health and worked at the Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University (2000-2017). In 2015 he was awarded the 43rd Medical Achievement Award (Iryo Kourou Sho) for his global activities in the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Handbook.

中村安秀（なかむら　やすひで）

東京大学医学部卒業。小児科医。都立病院小児科などを経験し、その後JICA専門家（インドネシア）、UNHCR（アフガニスタン難民医療）など途上国の保健医療活動に取り組む。東京大学小児科講師、ハーバード大学公衆衛生大学院研究員、大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科教授などを経て、現在日本WHO協会理事長・大阪大学名誉教授。母子手帳を世界に広めた功績で、2015年に第43回医療功労賞を受賞。どこの国にいっても子どもがいちばん好き。

Jane Nursey, Head of Clinical Services at Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health at University of Melbourne is a registered Clinical Neuropsychologist with 30 years’ experience in the field of posttraumatic mental health.  She has worked across the public hospital, academic and not-for-profit sectors. Her key areas of expertise lie in the development, implementation and evaluation of hospital, school and community based mental health and trauma recovery programs; providing policy and service development advice to government and industry on the assessment, management and treatment of trauma related mental health problems across the lifespan; and developing and implementing specialist training programs to assist government, communities, clinical services and high risk industry apply evidence based, best practice support to staff and clients suffering from trauma related mental health issues.

ジェーン・ナーシー,メルボルン大学（フェニックス・オーストラリア）心的外傷後精神保健センターの臨床サービス責任者。臨床神経心理学者として登録し、外傷後メンタルヘルスの分野で30年の経験を持つ。 公立病院、学術機関、非営利団体での勤務経験がある。主な専門分野は、病院、学校、コミュニティを基盤としたメンタルヘルスとトラウマ回復プログラムの開発、実施、評価、政府および産業界への生涯を通じたトラウマ関連のメンタルヘルス問題の評価、管理、治療に関する政策とサービス開発のアドバイス、政府、コミュニティ、臨床サービス、ハイリスク産業が、トラウマ関連のメンタルヘルス問題に苦しむスタッフやクライアントに対してエビデンスに基づく最善のサポートを行うための専門トレーニングプログラムの開発および実施などである。 

Sumiko Ogawa teaches Public Health and Global Health in Okinawa, Japan, as a Professor at Meio University, Faculty of Human Health Sciences. She has a Ph.D. in Human Sciences from Osaka University, Master's degrees in both Public Health from the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp and in Medical Sciences from Osaka University. From 1992 to 1996 she lived and worked in Lao PDR for the Primary Health Care Project and was awarded the third-class labour decoration by the government in 1996. After that, she was the Principal Investigator of the research project on the Development of postwar Okinawa’s Health Sector funded by the Japan Ministry of Education funded. She is currently interested in researching Okinawan and Irish women’s diasporas and their well-being. 

小川寿美子（おがわ すみこ）

名桜大学人間健康学部教授（公衆衛生学、国際保健学）。大阪大学大学院人間科学博士課程修了、同大学大学院医学研究科医科学専攻修了、ベルギー国アントワープ熱帯医学研究所公衆衛生学専攻修了。1992年から1996年の間、国際協力事業団（JICA）のプライマリ・ヘルスケア（PHC）長期派遣専門家としてラオス国公衆衛生プロジェクトに参加した時の功績によりラオス国より功労賞勲三等授与（1996）。その後、文部科学省による戦後の沖縄の保健衛生分野の発展に関する研究の研究代表者を務める。現在の研究課題は沖縄とアイルランドの女性のディアスポラとウェルビーイング。

Jun Oyane. Born in Tokyo, aged 60. Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, Senshu University (Ph.D., Sociology, Keio University). Former President of the Japan Society for Disaster Recovery and Rivatilization. His major fields of study are regional sociology, sociology of disasters, and social research. His major publications (co-authored, co-edited, etc.) include, among others: "Disaster in Human and Society" (Bunka Shobo Hakubunsha), "Introduction to Disaster Sociology" and "Introduction to Reconstruction Community Theory" (Kobundo), "New Human: New Society" (Kyoto University Press), "The Realities of Reconstruction Adaptive Governance: Interim Summary of the Great East Japan Earthquake A 10-year Interim Review" (Senshu University Press).

Temirlan Dair is a research student at the Graduate School of Human Sciences, Kyosei Studies (Critical Studies in Coexistence, Symbiosis and Conviviality) at Osaka University. He received a bachelor's degree from the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages in 2020, where he studied Oriental Studies, Japanese language, and Japanese culture. He also spent a year as a Nikkensei (Japanese Studies Student) at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.