Simplifying Oral health evaluation: a novel approach through single-item surveys.
Zaitsu T, Saito T, Oshiro A, Kawaguchi Y, Kawachi I.
BMC Oral Health. 2024 Jun 07. 24(1):669. PMID: 38849799
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Ichiro Kawachi, MB.ChB., Ph.D., is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Kawachi received both his medical degree and Ph.D. (epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has taught at Harvard since 1992.
Kawachi is the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000 (2nd edition published in 2014, with Lisa Berkman & Maria Glymour). His other books include Neighborhoods & Health (edited by Dustin Duncan & Ichiro Kawachi, Oxford University Press, 2018), Social Capital and Health with S.V. Subramanian & Daniel Kim (Springer, 2008); Behavioral Economics and Public Health with Christina Roberto (Oxford University Press, 2016); Social Epidemiology of Sleep (with Dustin Duncan & Susan Redline, Oxford University Press, 2019), and the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice (Oxford University Press, 4th edition forthcoming in 2019)
In 2013, he launched a massive, open online course (MOOC) through HarvardX called “Health and Society” (PHx 201), in which 32,000 participants registered from throughout the world. Kawachi is the Co-Editor in Chief (with S.V. Subramanian) of the international journal Social Science & Medicine, as well as the sister open access journal, SSM – Population Health. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Zaitsu T, Saito T, Oshiro A, Kawaguchi Y, Kawachi I.
BMC Oral Health. 2024 Jun 07. 24(1):669. PMID: 38849799
Smith RW, Holt-Lunstad J, Kawachi I.
Am J Epidemiol. 2024 May 22. PMID: 38775293
Goto H, Kawachi I, Vandoros S.
Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2024 May. 46:101069. PMID: 38711964
Sakaniwa R, Shirai K, Cador D, Saito T, Kondo K, Kawachi I, Steptoe A, Iso H.
JAMA Netw Open. 2024 May 01. 7(5):e2412303. PMID: 38771573
Yan X, Han F, Wang H, Li Z, Kawachi I, Li X.
J Glob Health. 2024 Apr 05. 14:04076. PMID: 38574358
Budhu JA, Chukwueke UN, Jackson S, Lee EQ, McFaline-Figueroa JR, Willmarth N, Dalmage M, Kawachi I, Arons D, Chang SM, Galanis E, Hervey-Jumper SL, Wen PY, Porter AB.
Neuro Oncol. 2024 04 05. 26(4):596-608. PMID: 38071654
Yoshida K, Honda K, Goto A, Kawachi I.
Health Serv Res Manag Epidemiol. 2024 Jan-Dec. 11:23333928241240970. PMID: 38572165
Venkataramani AS, Bair EF, Bor J, Jackson CL, Kawachi I, Lee J, Papachristos A, Tsai AC.
JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Apr 01. 184(4):363-373. PMID: 38315465
Tsoli S, Fancourt D, Sullivan A, Hamer M, Ploubidis GB, Kawachi I.
Eur J Epidemiol. 2024 Mar 16. PMID: 38492116
Morey BN, Shi Y, Ryu S, Redline S, Kawachi I, Park HW, Lee S.
Ethn Health. 2024 Apr. 29(3):295-308. PMID: 38303653
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