Taro Yamamoto MD, PhD

He graduated from Nagasaki Medical School in 1990 and went on to post-graduate school, obtaining two Ph.D. in Virology and International Health from Nagasaki University and The University of Tokyo, respectively. Since then, he has been working mainly as part of the academic staff in universities including Nagasaki University, Kyoto University as well as Cornell University.

Currently, he is a professor and the chairman of the Department of International Health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University. Before his current position, he worked for three years as a senior advisor for International Health Policy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.