Dr. NAKAMURA Yasuhide is a Professor Emeritus of Osaka University.

After he graduated from The University of Tokyo, and worked as a pediatrician at Tokyo Metropolitan

Hospital, he started global health to encourage maternal and child health in Indonesia as a Japan

International Cooperation Agency (JICA) expert (1986-88) and to promote refugee health program in

UNHCR Pakistan Office (1990-91). He was a Takemi Fellow (1996-97) in Harvard School of Public Health

for international health. He worked in Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University (2000-

2017). He is widely interested in conducting research through interdisciplinary approach in the spirit

of fieldworker; Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Handbook Programs in many countries, humanitarian

relief for refugees and victims by natural disasters, and health care system in Japan.
Dr. Nakamura is the president of Japan Association for International Health (JAIH), the representative

of International Society of Volunteer Studies and the president of Friends of WHO JAPAN. He got the

43th Medical Achievement Award (Iryo Kourou Sho) in 2015.