Naoki Kondo, MD, PhD

Naoki Kondo, MD, PhD

Naoki Kondo has been a Professor of Department of Social Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Kyoto University, since September 2020. His primary research themes are social determinants of health. He is the vice chief investigator of the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a cohort study following up more than 200,000 older adults nationwide in Japan. JAGES initiative has investigated the community and social environments that promote the preventive measures for non-communicable diseases and healthy and equitable longevity. His recent study focuses on how to address health inequality in the community settings, conducting intervention studies with local and central governments, utilizing “community-diagnosis” data. Professor Kondo is the member of Clinical Consortium on Health Ageing and a core member of the Global Network on Long-term Care, World Health Organization. He holds multiple roles as committee members and advisors for Parliamentary Groups and Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan. He has published over 200 peer reviewed papers in journals such as the Lancet, BMJ, Int J Epidemiology, etc.