→Japanese The World Dementia Council (WDC), was established in December 2013 at the G8 Dementia Summit held in the UK by the initiative of the British government. I have written a few entries on the WDC on this blog. Since then, two years have already passed and the British government alone cannot continue to provide […]
HGPI Event Report：A Dementia Symposium Commemorating the G7 Health Ministers’ Meeting in Nagasaki “Collaboration in the International Community for Advancing Dementia Measures in a New Era” World Dementia Council: https://www.worlddementiacouncil.org/our-work/events Date & time: May 14, 2023 8:30-10:30 (JST) Venue: Nagasaki, Japan Organaized: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) Co-organized: Health and Global Policy Institute […]
Summit 2019: Tokyo “Defeating dementia: the international collaboration challenge” Date: October 18 (Fri) Venue: Imperial Hotel (1 Chome-1-1 Uchisaiwaicyo, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) Registration: http://www.worlddementiacouncil.org/summit2019
→Japanese During the afternoon of the 23rd of August, I attended a meeting announcing that Japan would be joining the ‘A4’, a clinical research programme spearheaded by the US,aimed at operationalising the use of diagnostic imaging for the early detection of Alzheimer’s and then monitoring for a further four years. This announcement was made by […]
→Japanese After the end of splendid Golden Week with beautiful weather, I left for Amsterdam. This year, the EU Presidency is held by the Netherlands. This conference was hosted by the Netherlands in order to showcase and share the measures taken for dementia by the Dutch. Since being appointed as a member of the World […]
→Japanese The World Dementia Council (WDC) (1) was launched last year in the UK at the G8 Summit. Until now, the Council has met three times, in London, Paris and London, with the Legacy Event being held in London in June, in Ottawa in September and in Japan on November 5-7th. As a Council member, […]
Kiyoshi Kurokawa, MD, MACP Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo Professor Emeritus, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Distinguished Professor of Tokai University (2019-) Special Advisor, Hiroshima University (2019-) Chairman, Health and Global Policy Institute Chairman, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC) by the National Diet of Japan (2011-12) Member of G8 […]
(photo by: Tetsuo SAKUMA) Kiyoshi Kurokawa MD, MACP Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kiyoshi.kurokaw/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/k_kurokawa01 Mail: contact@kiyoshikurokawa.com Current Primary Appointments Professor Emeritus, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Chairman, Health and Global Policy Institute Chair and Representative Director, GHIT (Global Health Innovative Technology Fund) (2013.1-2018.6) Professor, Emeritus of the University of Tokyo Distinguished Research Affiliate, The MIT Media […]
→Japanese A slightly late Happy New Year to everyone! The new year began with holidays until the 3rd, followed by three days (4th~6th)of courtesy calls to all the people I have had the opportunity to work with, and again the weekend from the 7th to the 9th. Whenever I have such extended periods of rest, […]
→Japanese Its already the third time that I am visiting Toronto this year. This time, it was to attend a meeting of the World Dementia Council, the first meeting after being re-formed at the 2013 G8 Summit held in the UK. This date was arranged to follow the week-long Alzheimer’s Association International Conference that was […]