Ms. Fumiko Shibuya who is doctoral candidate in Graduate School of Health Sciences, has won the Encouragement Award for 2024 of Japan Association for Global Health（JAGH）. The paper for which she received the award is ‘Multi-country case study on school health policy and its implementation in relation to COVID-19 control in Micronesia Small Islands Developing States’ (Tropical Medicine and Health 52, 27, 2024).

https://tropmedhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41182-024-00590-8

This is a policy study that compares policies implemented or formulated during the pandemic of the COVID-19 between the three countries of the Micronesian region. This year, five papers were submitted, and three of them were said to be extremely high-level and highly competitive. The Laboratory of Global Health has been working for many years to develop methods for scientifically clarifying events that have happened the world, which were used in this study. The multiple case study method is said to be the most difficult of all qualitative research methods, and Mr. Shibuya completed it together with researchers from four countries.

The award ceremony and award lecture were held at the Joint Conference on Global Health (39th Japan Society for International Health, 65th Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine, 1st Taiwan Global Health Society) held in Itoman City, Okinawa on 16-17 November.