People
National Organizing Committee
Associate Professor
Sophia University
Director-General
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS)
Professor
Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
Senior Researcher
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS)
Program Committee
Yoshitaka Murakami
Professor, Toho University
Rikuya Hosokawa
Associate professor, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Miyuki Kawado
Chief Senior Researcher, National Institute of Public Health
Yuri Akamatsu
Project researcher, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
Yvanna Simon
PhD student, Bordeaux University – Bordeaux Population Health
Support from REVES Executive Committee
Director
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Vienna Institute of Demography
George Myers Lecture
Professor
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Chiba University
Dr. Katsunori Kondo is a professor of social epidemiology and health policy at the Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Japan. He also serves as the Director of the Department of Research, Institute for Health Economics and Policy through a cross-appointment. He is the founder of the Japan Agency for Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES), and a member of the Technical Advisory Group for Measurement, Monitoring and Evaluation of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing, WHO.
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He is the author of bestselling books, “Health Gap Society - what undermining mental health and society? “, Igaku-Shoin, 2005 and 2nd edition 2022, which are awarded by The Society for the Study of Social Policy in 2006 and by The Japan Association of Social Relations in 2024. He also edited and wrote “Advancing universal health coverage through knowledge translation for healthy ageing: lessons learnt from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study“, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2018”; “Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases – Case Studies from Japan”, Springer Singapore, 2020.
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He has honored Medical Award 2020 of the Japan Medical Association, and Awards for Science and Technology by the Minister of MEXT (Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), Japan.