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Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) held “Setting a Direction for Promoting Effective Digital Technology Utilization From the Perspectives of Those Most Affected.” This global expert meeting is co-hosted by the Frontier & International Psychiatry Laboratory of the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine and HGPI with the cooperation from Johns Hopkins University.

The focus of this global expert meeting was to examine how to best utilize digital technology, a topic which has attracted growing expectations in the field of mental health policy. We brought together prominent members of the academic community and opinion leaders from Japan and abroad representing industry, Government, academia, and civil society to discuss issues and future prospects for this topic under the three themes of “evidence,” “accessibility,” and “data.”

In our capacity as a health policy think-tank, HGPI will compile this series of discussions into policy recommendations which we will then disseminate to policy makers with the objective of contributing to progress in domestic mental health policy.

 

[Event Details]

Date & time: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 from 9:00 to 16:30 (Doors open at 8:30) (JST)/ Monday, December 19, 2022 at 19:00 to Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 02:30 (EST)
Format: Zoom webinar
Languages: Japanese and English (with simultaneous interpretation)
Participation Fee: Free

[Program] (Titles omitted)

09:00-09:05 Opening remarks

Kiyoshi Kurokawa (Chairman, HGPI)

09:10-09:40 Keynote lecture: A Brief Introduction of Harvard Digital Psychiatry

John B. Torous (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)
Matcheri S. Keshavan (Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

09:50-11:30 Session 1: Evidence in Digital Technology Use

Speakers (in Japanese syllabary order):

Koko Ishizuka (Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Ken Udagawa (Joint Director, Community Mental Health & Welfare Bonding Organization)
Shigenobu Kanba (Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University)
Taishiro Kishimoto (Project Professor, Hills Joint Research Laboratory for Future Preventive Medicine and Wellness, School of Medicine, Keio University)
Hironori Kuga (Director, National Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Research, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)
Takeshi Sakurai (Visiting Researcher, Department of Drug Discovery Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
Reiko Hayashi (Deputy Director-General, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research)
Yuji Yamada (Research Officer, Division of Data Sharing and Medical Art, Department of Health and Clinical Data, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development)

Moderator:

Akira Sawa (The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins Hospital)

*Please note that a certain amount of time was devoted to Q&A (for both in-person and remote participants) during this session.

Intermission (11:30 – 12:30)

12:30-12:40 Presentation 1: The Future of Promoting Healthcare DX – Expectations and Issues

Hanako Jimi (Member, House of Councillors; Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office)

12:40-12:50 Presentation 2: Current Trends and Future Prospects for Health and Welfare Measures in Psychiatric Care

Shuichiro Hayashi (Director, Mental Health and Disability Health Division Department of Health and Welfare for Persons with Disabilities Social Welfare and War Victims’ Relief Bureau Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)

12:50-13:00 Presentation 3: Current Trends and Future Prospects for the Maintenance and Promotion of Mental Health

Taisuke Hashimoto (Director, Healthcare Industries Division, Commerce and Service Industry Policy Group, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI))

13:00-14:20 Session 2: Digital Technology Accessibility

Speakers (in Japanese syllabary order):

Kensuke Kaneko (Representative Executive Vice-President, KANEKOSHOBO)
Osamu Kobori (Supervisor, HIKARI Lab Inc.)
Shingo Hayashi (Representative and Administrator, Community Site for People with Depression and Their Families encourage)
Toshiaki A. Furukawa (Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Health Issues Course, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University)
Nobuhiro Miura (Member, House of Councillors)

Moderator:

Shunichiro Kurita (Manager, HGPI)

*Please note that a certain amount of time was devoted to Q&A (for both in-person and remote participants) during this session.

Intermission (14:20 – 14:40)

14:40-16:20 Session 3: Promoting Digital Technology Through Effective Data Utilization

Speakers (in Japanese syllabary order):

Genko Oyama (Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Juntendo University)
Akiko Kudo (Senior Vice President, Executive Manager, New Business Promotion Department, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation)
Keigo Kobayashi (Person Living With a Mental Disorder)
Tatsunobu Shibata (Professor, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo; Director, Division of Cancer Genomics, National Cancer Center Research Institute)
Kazuyuki Nakagome (Director-General, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)
Mami Ho (Specialist in Clinical Medicine, Office of Medical Devices I, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency)

Moderator:

Takeshi Sakurai (Visiting Researcher, Department of Drug Discovery Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)

*Please note that a certain amount of time was devoted to Q&A (for both in-person and remote participants) during this session.

16:20-16:30 Closing remarks

Akira Sawa (The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins Hospital)