Dr. Goto earned her MPH in International Health here at the Harvard Chan School and returned in 2012 as a Takemi Fellow in International Health. She earned her MD and PhD (in Public Health) from Yamagata University Graduate School of Medicine (Japan). Most recently, Dr. Goto served as professor at Fukushima Medical University (FMU) with positions in both the Center for Integrated Science and Humanities and the Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. Goto’s time at FMU also included a two-year term as Dean of the FMU Graduate School of Nursing.
Her translational research has been conducted in close collaboration with local communities in Fukushima, Japan and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and is combined with the capacity building of local health care professionals in health information as well as maternal and child health care. Since the Fukushima nuclear accident, Dr. Goto has been working closely with local public health nurses helping them respond appropriately to concerns among parents of small children about elevated background radiation. Recently, she started working with children in disaster-prone Asian and African countries toward health promotion and community development.