Health Promotion and Human Behavior(Professional Degree Course / Latter Doctoral Course)Public Health

M.D., Ph.D. Professor Toshiaki A. Furukawa

Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior promotes pragmatic and empirical research on behaviors and cognitions that bear on disease and health of humankind. Its two vehicles of research consist of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) and clinical epidemiology (evidence-based medicine: EBM). Students are expected to learn how to interpret and apply evidence to clinical problems in their own fields, plan and execute clinical research to answer questions not yet covered in the current literature, and ultimately to contribute to better clinical practices in the world.

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Research and Education

The research themes in the Department currently include:

  1. In the field of EBM

    • Randomized controlled trials
    • Network meta-analyses, Individual patient (network) meta-analysis, Component network meta-analysis
    • Meta-epidmiological studies
    • Research and development of new methods to translate evidence into clinical practices, applying epidemiology, statistics and psychometrics.

  2. In the field of CBT

    • Smartphone-based CBT
    • CBT programs for patients with physical diseases

Recent Publications

  1. Herrman H*,,, Furukawa TA†, et al (2022) Time for united action on depression: A lancet-world psychiatric association commission. Lancet, 399, 957-1022. [* editor, † writing group]
  2. Furukawa TA, et al (2021) Dismantling, optimising, and personalising internet cognitive behavioural therapy for depression: A systematic review and component network meta-analysis using individual participant data. Lancet Psychiatry, 8, 500-511.
  3. Venkatesan P (2020) Toshi A Furukawa: pursuing humankind’s best possible care. Lancet Psychiatry, 7, 393.
  4. Furukawa TA, Cipriani A, et al (2019) Optimal dose of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, venlafaxine, and mirtazapine in major depression: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis. Lancet Psychiatry, 6, 601-609.
  5. Cipriani A*, Furukawa TA*, Salanti G*, et al (2018) Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Lancet, 391, 1357-1366. [* co-first]

Laboratory

Professor: Toshiaki A. Furukawa, MD, PhD
Associate Professor: Aran Tajika, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor: Masatsugu Sakata, MA
Assistant Professor (Medical Education center): Ethan Sahker, PhD
Assistant Professor (Medical Education center): LUO Yan, MD, PhD

TEL: 075-753-9491
FAX: 075-753-4641
Email: cbm.kusph@gmail.com
研究室ホームページ:http://ebmh.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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