Publications

Hiroki Kato, Tsuyoshi Goto, Youngrok Kim. (2025). Tax-price elasticities of charitable giving and selection of reporting: panel study of South Korea. Oxford Economic Papers, gpaf002,  https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaf002

Katika Akksilp, Thomas Rouyard, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Ryota Nakamura, Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, Yot Teerawattananon, Cynthia Chen. (2025). The Physical Activity at Work (PAW) Program in Thai Office Workers: Mixed Methods Process Evaluation Study. JMIR Formative Research, 9, e57604.  https://formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e57604

Hiroki Kato, Shusaku Sasaki, Fumio Ohtake. (2024). Adding nudge-based reminders to financial incentives for promoting antibody testing and vaccination to prevent the spread of rubella. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 113, 102300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2024.102300.

Ruru Ping. (2024). Evaluating the impacts of integrating health and social care systems on social care use among older adults with chronic diseases in China. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus, 1(4), 100082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aggp.2024.100082

Sayuri Fujita-Imazu, Stuart Gilmour, Yijing Wang, Jinzhao Xie, Bibha Dhungel, Xinran Wang, Phuong Nguyen, July Khin Maung Soe, Erika Ota, Nushrat Alam Biva, Jinghua Li. (2024). The effect of drugs and guns on life expectancy in the United States, 2000–2020. Public Health, 237, 193-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2024.09.029

Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Yi Wang, Budsadee Soboon, Kriang Tungsanga, Ryota Nakamura, Hwee Lin Wee, Siobhan Botwright, Wannisa Theantawee, Jutatip Laoharuangchaiyot, Thanakrit Mongkolchaipak, Thanisa Thathong, Pritaporn Kingkaew, Yot Teerawattananon. (2024). An empirical study looking at the potential impact of increasing cost-effectiveness threshold on reimbursement decisions in Thailand. Health Policy and Technology, 13(6), 100927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2024.100927

Ruru Ping, Bo Hu, Takashi Oshio. (2024). Evaluating the impact of a pilot programme for home- and community-based services on long-term care needs among older adults in China. PLOS ONE, 19(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311616

Akter S, Rahman MM, Rouyard T, Aktar S, Nsashiyi RS, Nakamura R. (2024).  A systematic review and network meta-analysis of population-level intervention to tackle smoking behaviour. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 2367–2391. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02002-7.

Hiroko Taniguchi, Md Mizanur Rahman, Ashraf Hussain, Shuhei Nomura, Ganan Devanathan, Masahiro Hashizume. (2024). Progress and scenario-based projections of health service availability and coverage towards UHC in the post-conflict and post-pandemic Iraq: a Bayesian hierarchical regression approach.
BMJ Open, 14(9), e080492. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/9/e080492

Takashi Oshio, Ruru Ping. (2024). Can cessation of caregiving for parents relieve family caregivers’ psychological distress? A longitudinal study using 17-wave nationwide survey data in Japan. Journal of Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20240190

Courtney Coile, . . . , Takashi Oshio, et al..(2024).  Social security and retirement around the world: lessons from a long-term collaboration. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. 24(1):8-30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474747223000215

Nhan Thi Ho, Sarah Krull Abe, Md Shafiur Rahman, Rashedul Islam, Eiko Saito, Prakash C Gupta, Mangesh S Pednekar, Norie Sawada, Shoichiro Tsugane, Akiko Tamakoshi, Takashi Kimura, Xiao-Ou Shu, Yu-Tang Gao, Woon-Puay Koh, . . . , Paolo Boffetta. (2024). Diabetes is associated with increased liver cancer incidence and mortality in adults: A report from Asia Cohort Consortium. International journal of cancer, 155(5), 854-870. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.34965

Asako Chiba, Taisuke Nakata, Thuy Linh Nguyen, Reo Takaku. (2024). COVID-19 risk perceptions in Japan: a cross-sectional study. Scientific Reports, 14(1).  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67741-z

Reo Takaku, Naohisa Shobako, Taisuke Nakata. (2024). Three years of COVID-19-related school restrictions and mental health of children and adolescents in Japan. Scientific Reports, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67138-y

Md. Mizanur Rahman, Ryota Nakamura, Md. Monirul Islam, Md. Ashraful Alam, Syed Khurram Azmat, Motohiro Sato. (2024). Effectiveness of a Community Pharmacy-Based Health Promotion Program on Hypertension in Bangladesh and Pakistan: Study Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Healthcare, 12(14), 1402. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12141402

Raïssa Shiyghan Nsashiyi, Md Mizanur Rahman, Lawrence Monah Ndam, Masahiro Hashizume. (2024). Contraceptive use, unmet need, and demand satisfied for family planning across Cameroon: a subnational study including indirect effects of COVID-19 and armed conflict on projections. BMC global and public health, 2(1), 40. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44263-024-00071-4

Xin Yin, Rie Kishida, Sarah K. Abe, Md. Rashedul Islam, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Eiko Saito, Qing Lan, Batel Blechter, Melissa Merritt, Ji‐Yeob Choi, Aesun Shin, Ryoko Katagiri, Xiao Ou Shu, Norie Sawada, . . . , Wei Jie Seow. (2024). Association between reproductive factors with lung cancer incidence and mortality: A pooled analysis of over 308,000 females in the Asia cohort consortium. International Journal of Cancer, 154(12), 2090-2105. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.34866

Katherine De la Torre, Minkyo Song, Sarah Krull Abe, Md Shafiur Rahman, Md Rashedul Islam, Eiko Saito, Sukhong Min, Dan Huang, Yu Chen, Prakash C Gupta, Norie Sawada, Akiko Tamakoshi, Xiao-Ou Shu, Wanqing Wen, Ritsu Sakata, Jeongseon Kim, . . . , Daehee Kang. (2024). Diabetes and gastric cancer incidence and mortality in the Asia Cohort Consortium: A pooled analysis of more than a half million participants. Journal of diabetes, 16(6), e13561.  https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-0407.13561

Izumi Yokoyama, Reo Takaku. (2024). How serious was it? The impact of preschool closure on mothers’ psychological distress: evidence from the first COVID-19 outbreak. The Japanese Economic Review, 75, 451–471. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42973-024-00155-8

Md Rashedul Islam, Md Mizanur Rahman, Md Shafiur Rahman, Sarah Krull Abe, Manas K. Akmatov, Masahiro Hashizume. (2024). Trends and projections of age-appropriate vaccination coverage in 41 low- and middle- income countries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, 2000–2030. Frontiers in Public Health, 12.  2024.5

Isao Oze, Hidemi Ito, Yuriko N Koyanagi, Sarah Krull Abe, Md Shafiur Rahman, Md Rashedul Islam, Eiko Saito, Prakash C Gupta, Norie Sawada, Akiko Tamakoshi, Xiao-Ou Shu, Ritsu Sakata, . . ., Keitaro Matsuo. (2023) . Obesity is associated with biliary tract cancer mortality and incidence: A pooled analysis of 21 cohort studies in the Asia Cohort Consortiumc. International journal of cancer, 154(7), 1174-1190. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.34794

Dan Huang, Minkyo Song, Sarah Krull Abe, Md Shafiur Rahman, Md Rashedul Islam, Eiko Saito, Katherine De la Torre, Norie Sawada, Akiko Tamakoshi, Xiao-Ou Shu, Hui Cai, Atsushi Hozawa, Seiki Kanemura, Jeongseon Kim, . . . , Daehee Kang. (2024). Family history and gastric cancer incidence and mortality in Asia: a pooled analysis of more than half a million participants. Gastric cancer, 27, 701–713. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10120-024-01499-1

Jae Jeong Yang, Wanqing Wen, Hana Zahed, Wei Zheng, Qing Lan, Sarah K. Abe, Md. Shafiur Rahman, Md. Rashedul Islam, Eiko Saito, Prakash C. Gupta, Akiko Tamakoshi, Woon-Puay Koh, Yu-Tang Gao, Ritsu Sakata, . . . , Xiao-Ou Shu. (2023). Lung Cancer Risk Prediction Models for Asian Ever-Smokers. Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 19(3), 451-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2023.11.002.

Takashi Oshio, Kemmyo Sugiyama, Toyo Ashida. (2024). Can social participation reduce and postpone the need for long-term care? Evidence from a 17-wave nationwide survey in Japan. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 19, 1293–1308. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-024-10288-y

Abdulfatai Olamilekan Babaita, Yasmin Jahan, Ryota Nakamura, Michiko Moriyama. (2024). Identifying key factors for successful formulation and implementation of healthcare policies on non-communicable diseases: a multinational analysis. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1292176. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1292176

Salma Nabila, Ji-Yeob Choi, Sarah Krull Abe, Md Rashedul Islam, Md Shafiur Rahman, Eiko Saito, Aesun Shin, Melissa A Merritt, Ryoko Katagiri, Xiao-Ou Shu, Norie Sawada, Akiko Tamakoshi, Ritsu Sakata, . . . , Daehee Kang. (2024). Differential patterns of reproductive and lifestyle risk factors for breast cancer according to birth cohorts among women in China, Japan and Korea. Breast cancer research : BCR 26(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-024-01766-0

Aiko Kikkawa, Takashi Oshio, Yasuyuki Sawada, Satoshi Shimizutani, Naohiro Ogawa, Albert Park, Tetsushi Sonobe. (2024). Health Capacity to Work among Older Persons in Asia: Key Findings from a Regional Comparative Study.  Asian Development Review (ADR), 41(01), 5-37. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0116110524400018

Raymond Duch, Edward Asiedu, Ryota Nakamura, Thomas Rouyard, Alberto Mayol, Adrian Barnett, Laurence Roope, Mara Violato, Dorcas Sowah, Piotr Kotlarz & Philip Clarke. (2023). Author Correction: Financial incentives for COVID-19 vaccines in a rural low-resource setting: a cluster-randomized trial. Nature Medicine, 30, 905. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02772-z

Jo-Ann Passmore, Monalisa Manhanzva, Ramla Tanko, Tanya Pidwell, Fezile Khumalo, Micaela Lurie, Chido Dziva Chikwari, Tinashe Mwaturura, Katharina Kranzer, Constance Mackworth-Young, Eneyi Kpokiri, Sarah Bernays, Camille Fortas, Bich-Tram Huynh, Katherine Gill, Karabo Mahlangu, Rindra Vatosoa Randremanana, Theodora Mayouya Gamana, Aina Harimanana, Elise van der Walt, Edina Sinanovic, Ayako Honda, Saberi Marais, Janneke van de Wijgert, Linda-Gail Bekker, David Anderson, Emma Harding-Esch, Tania Crucitti, Lindi Masson. (2023). PA-456 Field testing of a novel point-of-care Genital InFlammation Test (GIFT) in low- middle-income countries in Africa: aiming to prevent HIV infection and improve reproductive health. BMJ Global Health, 8(Suppl 10). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-EDC.208

Ishida Madoka, Arai Ko. (2023). Survey on information management of business administration: Multiple comparison by hospital type (Peer-reviewed). Journal of the Japan Society for Healthcare Administration,  60(4) ,116-124