Name
  Yasushi Honda
   
Affiliation
  University of Tsukuba (Institute of Health and Sport Sciences)
Department of Health Policy, Doctoral Program in Human-care Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
   
Title
  Professor
   
Academic degrees
  PhD(University of Tokyo)
MPH, DrPH(Institute of Public Health, Japan)
   
Research Fields
  Epidemiology, Environmental Health
   
Research Subjects
  Impact of Climate change on human health
   
Academic Society Membership
  -Editor-in-Chief for Japanese version, Japanese Society of Hygiene
-Councilor, Japanese Society of Epidemiology
-Member, Japanese Society of Public Health
-Councilor, Japanese Society of Epidemiology
-Member, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
-Member, Society of Epidemiologic Association, USA
   
Academic Publications
  Honda Y, Ono M, Uchiyama I, Sasaki A. Shift of the short-term temperature-mortality relationship by a climate factor ― some evidence necessary to take account in estimating the health effect of the global warming. J Risk Res 1998;1:209-220.
  Honda Y, Ono M, Uchiyama I. Humidity does not confound temperature-mortality relationship. Jpn J Biometeorol 2000;37:113-118.
  Honda Y, Beall C, Delzell E, Oestenstad K, Brill I, Matthews R. Mortality among workers at a talc mining and milling facility. Ann Occup Hyg 2002;46:575-585.
  Honda Y, Ono M, Nitta H. Low level carbon monoxide and mortality of persons aged 65 or older in Tokyo, Japan, 1976-1990. J Health Sci 2003;49:454-458.
  Honda Y, Kabuto M, Ono M, Uchiyama I. Determination of optimum daily maximum temperature using climate data. Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 2007; 12: 209-216.
   
Awards
  Nobel Peace Prize (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, IPCC, won the prize in 2007 along with Al Gore, and I have served as a lead author of the 4th assessment report of IPCC Working Group II.)
   
tel,fax
  tel : 029-853-2627
  fax : 029-853-2627
   
E-mail Address
  hondataiiku.tsukuba.ac.jp
[Education and Experience]
1973-1977
University of Tokyo Bachelor of Health Sciences
1977-1981
University of Tokyo Medical Doctor
1995
University of Tokyo Doctor of Philosophy (Dissertation accepted)