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Aya Goto
Primary Faculty

Aya Goto

Taro Takemi Professor of the Practice of International Community Health

Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departments

Department of Global Health and Population

Other Positions

Faculty Director of the Takemi Program of International Health

Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Biography

Aya Goto is Professor of the Practice of International Community Health at Department of Global Health and Population, and Director of Takemi Program in International Health. She also holds the position of a specially appointed professor at Fukushima Medical University. Her translational research has been conducted in close collaboration with local communities in Fukushima, Japan and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and is combined with the capacity building of local health care professionals in health information as well as maternal and child health care. Since the Fukushima nuclear accident, Dr. Goto has been working closely with local public health nurses helping them respond appropriately to concerns among parents of small children about elevated background radiation. Recently, she started working with children in disaster-prone Asian countries toward health promotion and community development.

Education and Training

  • MD,
    Yamagata University
  • MPH, International Health
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • PhD, Public Health
    Yamagata University

Awards and Honors

  • Honor for the contribution to socioeconomic development, 2019
    An Giang Province People’s Committee in Vietnam
  • Best Paper Award, 2017
    Japan Society of Maternal Health
  • Best Reviewer Award, 2012
    Japanese Society of Public Health
  • Distinguished Reviewer, 2011
    Japan Epidemiological Association