Education

Since April 2026, due to integration and reformulation of the Graduate Schools in Kobe University, my classes for Graduate Students largely changed.

For undergraduate students, except for Health administration, the classes are given at classroom (simultanaously given online via Zoom), but may change due to the epidemiologic situation of COVID-19, so that please check the BEEF-PLUS pages (To see the contents, login is required).

Lectures at Kobe University, 1st Semester 2026

Responsible Classes

Course	Students	Room	Day and Time	Misc.
Infectious Disease Modeling	GSM(M)	(TBD)	Monday, 2 (2Q)	(Since 2027)
Public health	N2, MT2	D201	Monday, 3	Partly done by Prof. Izumi, Prof. Fujita, Assoc. Prof. Nakayama and Assoc. Prof. Iriko
Environment, Food and Industrial Hygiene	MT2	B202	Monday, 4	Partly done by Assoc. Prof. Iriko
International Information Search	MT4	B202	Tue, 1 (1Q)	Introduction to "How to do review work"
Health administration	Ns 2, MT, PT, OT 3	ONLINE	Tue, 2 (1Q)
Human Ecology I	GSM(M)	(TBD)	Tuesday, 2 (2Q)	(Since 2027)
Demography Special Lecture I, II (ref) Demography	All GSHS, GSICS	GSICS PR	Thursday, 3	Together with GSICS students
Medical Anthropology Special Lecture I, II (ref) Medical Anthropology	All GSHS, GSICS	GSICS PR	Thursday, 4	Together with GSICS students

Classes, taking in part

Global Health I for GSM(M) and Global Health II for GSM(D), of which responsible professor is Prof. Matsui, will be held in 1Q since 2027. I will give lecture once each.

15 April 2026 (Wed), 5

Environmental Health I for GSM(M), "1. Ecology and Environmental Hygiene"

22 April 2026 (Wed), 4

Disaster health (Handout in Japanese, R codes: 1, 2); Ns 2, MT, PT, OT 3; @D201, Hi-Flex

22 April 2026 (Wed), 5

Environmental Health I for GSM(M), "2. Toxicology"

1 May 2026 (Fri), 3

a lecture on academic rules (in Japanese) as a part of the compendium of health sciences for 1st year students was given.

12 May 2026 (Tue), 4

Health statistics special lecture (ref(J)), M1 (public health nurse course), @E701

13 May 2026 (Wed), 5

Environmental Health I for GSM(M), "3. Environmental Epidemiology, Occupational Epidemiology, Exposure Assessment and Environmental Psychology"

19 May 2026 (Tue), 4

Health statistics special lecture (ref(J)), M1 (public health nurse course), @E701

20 May 2026 (Wed), 5

Environmental Health I for GSM(M), "4. Risk Assessment, Management and Communication"

16 June 2026 (Tue), 3+4

International infectious diseases (ref); MT4; @F306; in English

24 June 2026 (Wed), 5

Environmental Health II for GSM(D), "1. Population Pressure"

1 July 2026 (Wed), 5

Environmental Health II for GSM(D), "2. Climate Change and Environmental Disaster"

8 July 2026 (Wed), 5

Environmental Health II for GSM(D), "3. Water and Health"

15 July 2026 (Wed), 5

Environmental Health II for GSM(D), "4. Solid Waste and Toxic Waste"

29 July 2026 (Wed), 5

Environmental Health II for GSM(D), "6. Noise and Radiation"

Lectures at Kobe University, 2nd Semester 2026

Responsible Classes

Course	Students	Room	Day and Time	Misc.
International health (ref(J)	All 2	Zoom ONLINE or Hi-Flex at D201	Monday, 1	Taking in part
Information analysis of medical technology	MT4	F306	Monday, 1-2	Taking in part about What is standard ranges (in Japanese)(ROC calculation worksheet in Japanese, ROC-trial-2026.R)
Practice of public health (ref in Japanese)	MT2	ONLINE or F306, E503, E802, E501, etc.	Tuesday, 3-4	Supported by TAs and Associate Professor Utsubo. On the first day, at F306.
Human Ecology II	GSM(D)	(TBD)	Tuesday, 2 (3Q)
Social Epidemiology and Behavioral Economics	GSM(M)	(TBD)	Tuesday, 6 (3Q)
Disaster Health	GSM(M)	(TBD)	Tuesday, 6 (4Q)
Epidemiology Special Lecture I, II Public Health and Epidemiology (ref)	All GSHS, GSICS GSICS	GSICS PR + Zoom	Thursday, 3	Together with GSICS students
Environmental Health Special Lecture I, II (ref) Environmental Health	All GSHS, GSICS	GSICS PR + Zoom	Thursday, 4	Together with GSICS students

Classes, taking in part

In February 2025, GSICS biannual lecture on "Global Health and Medicine (in Japanese)" was held hi-flex. It will be held in February 2027 next.

Lectures in other Universities

Guest lecture in Nagasaki Prefectural University

Human Ecology (24th November 2021 and 26th October 2022, 16:20-17:50, using Zoom, 25th October 2023, 14:40-16:10 in face-to-face and online, 6th November 2024, 10:40-12:10 in face-to-face and online, 24th December 2025, 14:40-16:10 in face-to-face and online presentation in Japanese)

PAST LECTURE

Disappeared classes in Kobe University

• International health/disaster health activities (For all 3rd year students of Faculty of Health Sciences, 2012-2013)
• Epidemiology (For Nursing 2nd year students, 2012-2014)
• Public Health ("Epidemiologic Transition and Double Burden under Globalizaion" and "COVID-19 pandemic" (in Japanese)) (For undergraduate students at School of Medicine, -2022)
• As part of the Kobe Global Challenge Program, I gave a lecture of Globalization and infectious diseases (in Japanese) on 20 May 2021 online. Done on 19 May 2022 again.
Health Sciences Common Special Lecture IV, VIII (ref)All GSHS graduate studentsONLINEWednesday, 6Partly done by Guest Lecturer Dr. Tokuhara and Dr. Tanimura. Public health special lecture I, II (ref)All GSHS, GSICSGSICS206Thursday, 1-2Together with GSICS students Medical health statistics and epidemiology special lecture II (ref (in Japanese))All doctoral GSHSONLINE(Intensive)Assoc. Prof. Koichiro Komai takes part of the lecture. This class will be held as very short summer school.

Guest lecture in Hokkado University

• International Health
• Demography (15th May 2020, 20:00-21:30, using Zoom, handout)

Guest lecture in the University of Tokyo

• Demography (1) Birth: presentation 2003 [pdf] [J], presentation 2004 [pdf] [J], handout 2004 [pdf] [J]
• Demography (2) Disease: Disease and Population [J]
• Demography (3) Mathematical Models: Mathematical Demography [J]
• Demography (4) Death: handout (modified) 2009 [pdf] [J]
• Environmental Health (1) Environmental Risk Assessment and Management: presentation [pdf] [J] | handout (2009) [pdf] [J]
• Environmental Health (2) Adaptation to Disease with special reference to malaria: handout [pdf] [J]
• handout for both (1) and (2) in 2014

Gunma University

• Practice of medical information analysis [J] (2nd year of undergraduate)
• Public Health (3rd year of undergraduate)
• Omnibus lecture entitled "Frontier of the life science" (1st year of undergraduate): "Iron nutrition and health" (2006): handout [pdf] [J], presentation [pdf] [J], "Public health perspective for actions against novel influenza pandemic" (2009): handout, modified [pdf] [J]
• In the omnibus lecture entitled "Introduction to informatics", "Ethics concerning information (2) Information security" (1st year of undergraduate): handout in 2007 [pdf] [J], handout in 2009 [pdf] [J], handout in 2011 [pdf] [J]
• In the 2007 omnibus lecture entitled "Introduction to biology", "Ecology" (1st year of undergraduate): handout [pdf] [J]
• Guest lecture, Graduate School of Medicine (Summer, Intensive course): Medical statistics [J]

TCUE lecture when I was the a research associate at the Univ. Tokyo

social research [J] | social statistics [J] | ecology [J]

YPU lecture: Statistics [J] | Public Health [J] | Nursing Informatics [J] | Epidemiology [J] | Advanced Epidemiology [J]

Handouts for lecture/seminar

• How to design sample size? / Power analysis as a presentation handout for Ichimokukai (4 August 2011).
• Factor analysis in R as a rough draft in R practice seminar (25 July 2011)
• R practice seminar about "Meta-analysis" (1), (2), (4)
• Summary of usage about stack/unstack data as a rough draft in R practice seminar (18 October 2010)

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