TICAD8 Official Side Event
Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-being by Drug Development and African Traditional Medicines
Date and Time
September 20, 2022
From 16:00 - 18:00 (Japanese time)
International ONLINE Symposium in English and Japanese (with simultaneous translation)
Dear All
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Thank you very much for your cooperation.
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Merci beaucoup d'avoir participé et regardé cet événement. Nous nous excusons également pour le retard de l'annonce. En plus des corrections et ajustements apportés à l'enregistrement, nous avons également ajouté des sous-titres à l'audio pour les parties du symposium qui avaient des problèmes d'audio, afin que vous puissiez facilement comprendre le contenu du symposium.
Merci beaucoup pour votre coopération.
Background
Kumamoto University is collaborating with African universities to conduct research for the improvement of healthcare services in Africa by utilizing more effectively and safely the medicinal plants that have been traditionally used. Our research endeavors are based on cutting-edge science and knowledge to promote healthier and better lives in Africa, and to improve its healthcare services. As one of these activities, we held the 7th Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD7) Post Forum in Kumamoto. Based on the discussions on healthcare and medical environment at the TICAD7, we announced the "Kumamoto statement 2019" as a proposal for improving healthcare in Africa, and have been working in accordance with this statement through Public-Private-Partnerships (P3) including academia (PPP-A).
Since the end of 2019, the global pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has dramatically transformed the global medical and public health environment. Particularly in Africa, where viral infections were still the leading cause of death, socioeconomic activities have significantly stagnated due to weak social infrastructure against viral infections. Especially, vulnerable populations have been severely affected. In the future, the provision for adequate healthcare in Africa, including for COVID-19, will be crucial to promote a healthier and better life.
In order to contribute to the improvement of healthcare services that are compatible with the current standard of living and healthcare systems in Africa, it is important to utilize not only state-of-the-art medicine but also the traditional medicines that are being used by 80% of the African population. Therefore, we decided to hold an international online symposium "Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-being by Drug Development and African Traditional Medicines," on September 20th 2022, as an official side event of TICAD8.
Objectives
- To build a collaborative positive network among public, private, and academia in Japan and Africa, for Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-being in Africa
- To organize a database of African natural products to tackle the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases.
- To provide a technical and scientific framework for the advancement of research and development in African traditional medicine and medicinal plants, as well as to strengthen African countries' capabilities in the application, standardization, and manufacturing of African traditional medicines.
- To encourage African countries in constructing commercialization and marketing distribution methods for natural products.
Expected Effects
- Increased access to traditional medicines and improved public health services for African communities.
- The burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases will be reduced in Africa by effective utilization of medicinal plants.
- An active platform for frequent contacts on the "state of the art approaches" in the practice of traditional herbal medicine between Japan and African nations.
- Creating a systematic survey/catalogue of herbal/medicinal products, attributes, practitioners, institutions, and current research.
- Establishment of a pilot plant for the extraction of pharmaceutical ingredients from medicinal plants, as well as the development of standardization and quality control processes; provision of equipment and laboratory instruments.
- Development of drug candidates by utilizing research on African traditional medicines and medicinal plants
- Education, discipline development, and expert training in agricultural practices for skilled workers, practitioners, and health management experts.
Program
- Host: Hirofumi Kai
- Vice President, Kumamoto University
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Hisao Ogawa
President, Kumamoto University
Biography
- Jun 1978
- Resident, Kumamoto University Hospital
- Nov 1979
- Resident, Kumamoto Chuo Hospital
- May 1980
- Resident, Kumamoto University Hospital
- Jun 1980
- Medical resident, Kumamoto University Hospital
- July 1980
- Worked at Amakusa Chuo Hospital
- July 1981
- Worked at National Cardiovascular Center
- Jul 1984
- Medical Assistant, Kumamoto University Hospital
- Feb. 1985
- Research Assistant, Kumamoto University (Health Administration Center)
- Apr 1986
- Worked at Yatsushiro General Hospital
- Apr 1987
- Research Assistant, Kumamoto University Hospital
- Jul 1991
- Lecturer, Kumamoto University (Hospital, Faculty of Medicine)
- Apr 1997
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Kumamoto University
- Oct. 2000
- Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Kumamoto University
- Apr 2005
- Deputy Director, Kumamoto University Hospital (until Mar 2007)
- Oct. 2007
- Deputy Director, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
- Feb. 2008
- President, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
- Apr. 2021
- President, Kumamoto University
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Tetsuro Yano
President, Association of African Economy and Development
Biography
- November 1946
- Born in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
- March 1970
- Graduated from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Keio University
- April 1983
- First elected as a member of Tochigi Prefectural Assembly
- July 1992
- First elected to the House of Councillors
- August 1995
- Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense
- September 1997
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
- Aug. 1999
- Chairman of the House of Councillors Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
- October 2002
- Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
- July 2003
- Vice President, Japan-Africa Union (AU) Parliamentary League of Friendship
- July 2004
- Chairman of the LDP Diet Committee, House of Councillors
- May 2008
- Chairman of the Association of African Economic and Development
to present
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Hirofumi Kai
hairman of the executive committee of Previous symposium
Vice President, Kumamoto University
Biography
- Mar 1983
- Graduated from Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
- Mar 1985
- Completed Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
- Apr 1985
- Research Fellow, Pharmacology, Tsukuba Research Laboratories, Eisai Co.
- Apr 1987
- Research Assistant, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
(1992-6: Department of Anatomy, UCSF School of Medicine, U.S.A., as an overseas researcher of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) - Jun 1997
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
- Apr 2001
- Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
- Nov. 2002
- Special Assistant to the President, Kumamoto University (in charge of research) (to Mar. 2009)
- Apr 2011
- Director, Center for Drug Discovery Research, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University (to Mar 2015)
- Apr. 2011
- Special Assistant to the President, Kumamoto University (in charge of Endowment and Alumni Association) (to Mar. 2013)
- Apr. 2013
- Deputy Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Education (to Mar. 2015)
- Apr. 2021
- Dean, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Education, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Apr. 2021
- Vice President of Kumamoto University, in charge of Strategy, Regional Development and Regional Collaboration)
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Haruo Naito
Eisai Co. Ltd., Director, Representative Corporate Officer and CEO
Biography
Dr. Naito received an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management in June 1974. He joined Eisai Co., Ltd. in October 1975 and has been President and CEO since April 1988. He was Vice President of the Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (JPMA) from May 1998 to May 2019, President of the International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA) from November 2009 to November 2010, President of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufactures’ Associations of Japan (FPMAJ) and Chair of Dolder Group from May 2012 to May 2014, President of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association of Tokyo and Vice President of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufactures Associations of Japan (FPMAJ) from June 2016 to June 2018, respectively.
He was conferred an honorary doctorate of science from UCL (University College of London) in July 2013. He was awarded an honorary CBE in April 1999 and KBE in April 2014 from the United Kingdom.
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Bruno Sunguya
Muhimbili Univ. of Health And Allied Sciences, Tanzania
Biography
He is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Kumamoto University in Japan. He has over ten-year experience in Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition and Food Security, Adolescent, Maternal and Child Health Research, Health Systems Research, and HIV/AIDS research. He has worked and led teams to develop national guidelines on various aspects including STIs, HIV/AIDS and TB; Nutrition; and Reproductive and Child Health for Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar. He has conducted a number of researches in nutrition and other public health fields and disseminated his research work widely in more than 65 peer reviewed research articles, 3 book chapters, and international conferences in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Before joining MUHAS, Dr. Sunguya worked Muhimbili National Hospital as a clinician, and with the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, in WHO HQ Geneva as an intern. Currently, he is also serving as an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: Tanzania Medical Journal, and BMC nutrition journal. He is also a HIV implementation science fellow at MUHAS and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health program; a senior research mentor for THET program; a core member of the Tanzania Immunization Technical Advisory Committee; a core member of the National committee on Adverse Events Following Immunization; a member of National Measles Certification committee; a member of the WHO Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Group-Subgroup on Diet and Health. He chairs the MUHAS Research and Ethics Committee and is a contact person for research collaborations and grants for the institution.
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Festus M. TOLO
KEMRI, Kenya
Biography
Festus M Tolo is a Phyto-Medical Biologist with a PhD in Medicinal Phytochemistry. He is the Chief Research Officer and the Head of NAPREDA-KEMRI and Fellow at the African Scientific Institute.
He is an awardee of the the Nelon Gold Award (NGA) of KEMRI and a recipient of the Inter-Academy Medical Panel (IAMP) Distinguished Scientist Award in Natural Products Research by the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). He is a part time Lecturer in Medical Microbiology and peer Reviewer of Quality Standards (QS) for the Commission for University Education (CUE), Kenya.
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Shogo Misumi
Kumamoto Univ., Japan
Biography
- Apr 1994
- Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
- Dec 1994
- Research Assistant, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
- May 2002
- Associate Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
- Apr 2007
- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
- Sep. 2013
- Professor, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
- Sep. 2013
- Professor, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
- Director, Laboratory of Environmental Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Life Science, Kumamoto University
- Professor, Director, Laboratory of Environmental Molecular Health Sciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University
To present
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Mary Ann Suico
Kumamoto Univ., Japan
EDUCATION
- June 1987 - March 1991.
- Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Carlos, Cebu, Philippines,
- June 1996 - March 1998.
- Master of Science in Chemistry, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of San Carlos, Cebu, Philippines,
- April 2000 - March 2003.
- Doctoral degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan,
WORK EXPERIENCE
- December 1991 - May, 1992.
- Chemist, Department of Science and Technology, Cebu, Philippines,
- June 1992 - March 1994.
- High school chemistry teacher, Sisters of Mary School, Cebu, Philippines,
- June 1994 - March 1999.
- Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences, Cebu Doctors’ College, Cebu, Philippines,
- April 1999 - March 2000.
- Research Trainee, Faculty of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University,
- April 2003 - March 2008.
- Associate Researcher, Faculty of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University,
- April 2008 -
- present.Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University
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Ko Nakagawa
Toyota Tsusho Co.
Biography
Assistant General Manager, International Cooperation Group, Automotive Planning Department, Automotive Division, Toyota Tsusho Corporation.
Career, Specialty, etc.
Experienced in the pharmaceutical and automobile divisions of a trading company, specializing in pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and vehicles.
He specializes in international aid for pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and vehicles, and in sales to the United Nations.
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Naoyuki Kawahara
President, NGO Rocinantes
Biography
- 1992
- Graduated from Kyushu University School of Medicine
Joined the Second Department of Surgery, Kyushu University School of Medicine - 1993
- Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital
- 1997
- Completed Doctoral program in Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyushu University
- 1998
- Second Secretary and Medical Officer, Embassy of Japan in Tanzania
- 2001
- Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom (Trainee in Tropical Medicine, University of London)
- 2002
- First Secretary and Medical Officer, Embassy of Japan in Sudan
- 2005
- Started medical activities in Sudan
- 2006
- Founded Rocinantes, a non-profit organization, the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors
To present
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Ichiro Aisawa
Member of the House of Representatives
Biography
- June 1954
- Born in Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
- March 1979
- Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Management Engineering
- April 1980
- Entered Matsushita Institute of Government and Management as a first term student
- March 1985
- Graduated from the same school
- July 1986
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Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time.
Elected to the House of Representatives 11 times (12 times in total) until the October 2021 election.
Career
- Senior Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Parliamentary Vice-Minister for International Trade and Industry
- Chairman, House of Representatives
- Chairman of the Budget Committee, House of Representative
- Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Representatives
- Chairman of the Political Ethics Committee, House of Representatives and other important positions in the government and the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
Diet Members' Caucus and Organizations
- Chairman, Japan-Africa Union Parliamentarians for Friendship
- Co-Chair of the Global Fund Japan Committee Member Task Force
- etc.
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Outline
- Date and time
- September 20, 2022 From 16:00 - 18:00 (Japanese time)
- Side Event Host
- Hirofumi Kai, Kumamoto University
- Facilitator of Panel discussion
- Mary Ann Suico, Kumamoto University
- Venue
- Online
- Organizer
- Kumamoto University, NGO Rocinantes
- Co-organizer
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JSPS Core-to-Core Program
"Platform aiming for controlling synergistic epidemics of viral infections facilitated by Kumamoto University Liaison Offices in Africa"
- Supporting organizations
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, JICA, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(tentative), Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (tentative), Kumamoto Prefecture, Kumamoto City etc
- Cosponsor
- Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd., DOJIN GROUP, CO., Ltd., Alumni association of Kumamoto University, School of Pharmacy, The Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute, KM Biologics Co., Ltd., The Higo Bank, Ltd., Heartfelt Inc., Nipro Corporation, Nobelpharma Co., Ltd.
- Language
- English（Simultaneous interpretation into Japanese available）