Dr. Kenichi KOMADA, specialist of acute medicine and epidemiology, has about 20 years’ experiences providing technical, programmatic and management support in infectious diseases to several countries in the Western Pacific and African Regions and elsewhere.
Positions held include Chief advisor, JICA HIV/AIDS project in Zambia, Deputy Director of the International Affairs Division of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, clinical emergency doctor in St. Luke’s International hospital in Japan.
He participated in disaster relief after devastated earthquakes in Pakistan and Japan, and emergency support for border measures by Japanese government related to the pandemics of H1N1 and COVID-19.
He conducted infectious diseases related researches in the Western Pacific and African Regions including Lao PDR, Viet Nam, and Zambia. He has also contributed to regional and global meetings as infectious disease control expert.
His professional interests include program implementation and monitoring and evaluation for infectious disease control in resource limited settings.
