Naoki KONDO

Professor and Chair, Department of Social Epidemiology,

Graduate School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Kyoto University

Naoki Kondo has been a Professor of Department of Social Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Kyoto University, since September 2020. His primary research themes are social determinants of health. He is the vice chief investigator of the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a cohort study following up more than 200,000 older adults nationwide in Japan. JAGES initiative has investigated the community and social environments that promote the preventive measures for non-communicable diseases and healthy and equitable longevity. Professor Kondo is the member of Clinical Consortium on Health Ageing and a core member of the Global Network on Long-term Care, World Health Organization. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as the Lancet, BMJ, Int J Epidemiology, etc.