Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) hosted an installment of 30-minute Health Policy Update, which is held on an irregular basis to brief non-partisan Diet members on key health policy issues. The concept of this installment was “Considering the Future of Health and Medical Policy with Industry, Government, Academia, and Civil Society.” Working more closely with the legislature than ever before and with support from our non-partisan promoters, our objective was to deepen learning for non-partisan Diet members using concrete and verifiable data in themes with a high degree of public interest including cancer, preventive medicine, internal and surgical diseases, pediatrics, and perinatal care and, with a future-oriented vision, have an equal exchange of opinions on next steps.

[Program] (Titles omitted)

Lecture “The Current State of Cancer Care in Regional Japan: Considering Two Key Concepts of ‘Equalization’ and ‘Centralization’”

Yasuaki Sagara (Deputy Director, Sagara Hospital, Hakuaikai Medical Corporation / Vice Chair, Quality Improvement Committee, Japanese Breast Cancer Society)

■Non-partisan Diet Member promoters (titles omitted; in Japanese syllabary order)

Members of the House of Representatives:

Keishi Abe, Shinichi Isa, Naoyuki Ito, Satoshi Umemura, Hiroaki Tabata, Mitsuko Numazaki, Gaku Hashimoto, Toru Fukuta

Members of the House of Councillors:

Kozo Akino, Takahiro Anno, Katsuo Oshima, Akira Koike, Hiroyuki Konishi, Hanako Jimi, Mami Tamura, Toshiharu Furukawa