Speakers

Haruka Sakamoto

Place of Birth : Japanese
Position : Primary Care Physician and Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Keio University

Dr. Haruka SAKAMOTO, MD MPH is a primary care physician and a researcher at the University of Tokyo, Department of Global Health Policy. She got her M.D from Sapporo Medical University and worked as a physician at St Luke’s International Hospital (one of the largest private hospitals) in Tokyo for several years. She then got a scholarship from the World Bank and got her MPH at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health. From 2011-2013 and 2016, she had worked at the department of international cooperation, Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan where she was deeply involved in health policy activities in Japan. As part of the work, she participated in WHO meetings, G7 meetings as well as bilateral cooperation activities through JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). Her current research focuses on politics in global health, especially in public health emergencies, universal health coverage and aging society, and innovation for new medicines.

• joint Japan and World Bank Graduate Scholarship 9/2014 All tuition and living expenses for my graduate study at Harvard School of Public Health.
• New Voices from Japan program organized by Social Science Research Council (SSRC) 3/2017
• As a young professional in the area of public health, I was dispatched to the USA to communicate the professionals in USA such as Brooking Institute, Tulane School of Public Health, RAND Institute, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Congressional Research Services (CRS)