2016-2017 Takemi Fellows

33rd cohort from left to right: Hisashi Eguchi, Sumiyo Okawa, Shou-Hsia Cheng, Lilian Dudley, Ramiro Guerreo-Carvajal, Jesse Bump (Executive Director), Tuba Agartan, Georgina Yaa Oduro, Hayward Babale Mafuyai, Michael Reich (Director), Nkechi Onyeneho, Amy Levin (Program Coordinator), Hongsoo Kim, Myoungsoon You. Not pictured (Solomon Tessema Memirie)

  1. Governing health human resources in Turkey: Public sector physicians and reform
    Tuba Agartan, PhD (Turkey)
    Associate Professor, Providence College
  2. To understand the strategies, programs and effects of the health care reforms conducted under or along with the Affordable Care Act in the U.S.: Lessons for Taiwan
    Shou-Hsia Cheng, PhD, MS (Taiwan)
    Professor/Director, Inst. Of Health Policy & Mgt, College of Public Health, Nat’l Taiwan Univ.
  3. Improving continuity of care for Tuberculosis patients discharged from hospitals to primary care services in the Western Cape, South Africa
    Lilian Dudley, FFPHM, PhD, MSc, MBChB, BSc (South Africa)
    Founding Director, Centre for Health Systems and Services Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University
  4. Psychometric assessment of a scale to measure the bonding type of workplace social capital
    Hisashi Eguchi, PhD, MBA, MD (Japan)
    Asst. Prof., Kitasato Univ. School of Medicine
  5. The health and welfare effects of paid maternity leave and minimum retirement age in Colombia
    Ramiro Guerreo-Carvajal, MSc (Colombia)
    Director, PROESA- Universidad Icesi
  6. Preventable inpatient service use of older adults in South Korea and the United States: a cross-national study
    Hongsoo Kim, PhD, MPH, MSN (S. Korea)
    Fulbright Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University; Core faculty member, Institute Of Aging, Seoul National University
  7. An Assessment of the Malaria Elimination Programme in Nigeria
    Hayward Babale Mafuyai, LLB, PhD, MSc (Nigeria)
    Vice-Chancellor (President), Univ. of Jos
  8. Assessing and analyzing the epidemiology of cancer in Ethiopia
    Solomon Tessema Memirie, PhD, MD (Ethiopia)
  9. ‘Gold in my thighs?’ : Exploration of the growing phenomenon of child prostitution in Cape Coast, Ghana
    Georgina Yaa Oduro, PhD, MA, PGDE, BA (Ghana)
    Senior Lecturer, Univ. Of Cape Coast, Ghana
  10. Developing an integrated continuum of care (CoC) service model for maternal newborn and child health (MNCH) in Ghana and Myanmar
    Sumiyo Okawa, PhD, MSc, BA (Japan)
    Project Researcher, Dept of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Univ. of Tokyo
  11. Health risk governance in Korea: Challenges in accountability and risk communication
    Myoungsoon You, PhD, MPH, BA (S. Korea)
    Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul Nat’l Univ.

Continuing from 2016-2017

  1. Patterns of Anemia infection in married women and their children in Nigeria: A synthetic cohort analysis
    Nkechi Onyeneho, PhD (Nigeria)
    Senior Lecturer, University of Nigeria