Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) held an Advisory Board meeting titled “Toward Reliable Policy Implementation for Early Detection and Early Intervention of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) at the Local Governments” on November 13, 2025.

In Fiscal Year 2024, HGPI conducted both quantitative and qualitative surveys to understand the reality of one of the major challenges in renal disease measures: the gap between health checkups and seeking medical care. Based on the findings of these surveys, discussions were deepened at an Advisory Board meeting, leading to the compilation of the policy recommendations document, “Policy Recommendations on Strengthening Chronic Kidney Disease Strategies: Challenges and Solutions in Seeking Medical Care from the Perspective of Patients and Those Affected”. The recommendations emphasized the importance of cross-sectoral discussions, the need to establish evidence-based standards for recommending medical visits, and the significance of prioritizing intervention groups and considering approaches tailored to specific attributes.

For Fiscal Year 2025, HGPI plans to hold two Advisory Board meetings. Building upon the previous year’s recommendations, the goal is to specifically clarify the challenges faced by local governments and health insurers in the CKD care pathwayーfrom health checkups to seeking medical careーand to organize and examine feasible solutions to these barriers, as well as the roles required of stakeholders to overcome them.

This first meeting focused on CKD countermeasures at the local governments. It was held to deepen discussions while sharing the current challenges with experts from various fields, aiming to identify concrete solutions that can be implemented by local governments.

*Based on the discussions from the first and second meetings, a set of policy recommendations will be developed and published.

[Event Overview]

• Date & Time: Thursday, November 13, 2025; 14:00-16:00 JST
• Format: Hybrid *This meeting was held as a closed session.
• Venue: Otemachi Financial City Conference Center (Otemachi Financial City South Tower, 1-9-7 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004)
• Language: Japanese
• Organizer: Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI)

■Advisory board members (title omitted; in Japanese syllabary order)

Yayoi Kanameda (Deputy Director, Health Policy Group, Welfare and Health Division, Welfare and Health Department, Kure City)
Takeo Nakayama (Professor, Department of Health Informatics, School of Public Health, Kyoto University)
Satomi Baba (Deputy Director, Health Promotion Division, Public Health Center, Health and Welfare Department, Kurume City)
Akira Fukui (Lecturer, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine)
Shingo Fukuma (Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences/ Professor, Human Health Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine)
Ayumi Matsumura (Section Chief, Cancer and Disease Control Section, Cancer and Disease Control Division, Regional Medical Department, Medical Bureau, Yokohama City)
Keiji Muramatsu (Project Professor, Center for Next Generation of Community Health, Chiba University Hospital)
Masaaki Yokota (Assistant Director-General, Health and Welfare Bureau, City of Chiba)

Moderator
Eri Yoshimura (Senior Manager, Health and Global Policy Institute)