Brown Bag Seminar: Thyroid cancer prevention in radiological emergencies
Yoshitaka Nishikawa, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist, Takemi Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and associate professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine. His work focuses on developing and disseminating health information to protect people from disasters and diseases, particularly cancer and gastrointestinal diseases. He leads two reporting guidelines: CAST-D (case studies in public health and medicine related to disasters) and WATER (wastewater analysis and tracking in epidemiological reporting). His Takemi project examines stable iodine implementation after radiological emergencies at individual, community, and national policy levels.
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Yoshitaka Nishikawa
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