Faculty
Nahoko Harada
Professor
Professor Harada studies disaster preparedness and coordination across health, medicine, public health, and welfare. She also studies support for humanitarian and disaster responders and works with communities and partner organizations on psychological preparedness.
About Nahoko Harada末田朋美
Assistant Professor, Fundamentals of Nursing
Her research focuses on resilience and cancer nursing, including how nurses can help patients draw on their own strengths during treatment and recovery.
researchmapUndergraduate research topics
- Support for older adolescents whose mothers had breast cancer
- Self-care during adult cancer chemotherapy
- Evidence from randomized trials of music therapy
水田明日香
Assistant Professor, Fundamentals of Nursing
Drawing on experience in intensive care, she helps students connect nursing concepts to clinical practice and supports a learning environment where they can build confidence.
Okayama University faculty profile (Japanese)Graduate students
Kyohei Takami
Master’s program
His research examines how disability support coordinators can use AI in their work. He studies which features they need and what makes AI difficult to adopt, looking for ways to improve the quality of support and reduce workloads.
About the studyShin Ito
Doctoral program
This research compares nurse practitioner education, qualifications, and scope of practice across countries. It combines international comparisons with research involving stakeholders in Japan to develop a model for introducing the system in stages.
Tomoko Fujiwara
Doctoral program
This research examines the use of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) in health professions education. It looks at how discussing works of art helps learners notice and reconsider their perspectives and ways of thinking.
NYI MIN KHANT
Master’s program
This research examines access to drinking water in earthquake-affected areas of Myanmar. It looks at local water supply efforts, how water is sold, and what households pay to understand how communities can secure safe water during overlapping crises.
NAW SAY DAH EH
Master’s program
This research examines access to primary health care and rehabilitation in earthquake-affected areas of Myanmar. It looks at differences between communities and how residents and local organizations respond to barriers to care during overlapping crises.
Alumni and thesis research
Yukihiro Noguchi
Master’s program graduate
His master’s research examined a model of diabetes care in which nurse practitioners and physicians work together on an island with limited medical resources. Using clinical records from Tokunoshima, he compared changes in glycemic control between care involving a nurse practitioner and usual care, taking patient characteristics into account. The study examined how communities can organize ongoing care for chronic conditions.
researchmapKanako Fujimoto
PhD in Integrated Sciences, March 2026
Her doctoral research developed infection prevention and control guidelines that support daily life for residents in long-term care facilities. She used a behavioral science framework to analyze input from residents, staff, managers, and external specialists. Through several rounds of consensus building, the study produced ten guidelines to help facilities discuss and decide on measures that suit their circumstances.
Cristina Meza
Master’s research
Her master’s research compared the health systems of Costa Rica and Japan and examined the role of primary care in each system.
Undergraduate class of 2025
桑田仲美、茂ハード里紗、本田麗奈、山崎海衣夏
Undergraduate class of 2024
長野歩美、山本佳奈、中島凛香、久保一華、磯部朱里
A comparative intervention study used HoloLens to build disaster preparedness awareness among nursing students.
Undergraduate class of 2023
- Assertiveness skills intervention: 山田怜奈、伍賀有希乃、菊地理乃
- Stress coping for work–life balance: 若狭真鈴、絹川真央、美好優
Research collaborators
Kei Imai
Part-time Researcher
Drawing on clinical experience in emergency and intensive care, he uses clinical epidemiology and data science to study topics such as machine learning for delirium prediction and post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). At the Harada Laboratory, he contributes to a scoping review of secondary health impacts after natural disasters in Japan.
Researcher profileYosuke Takada
Visiting Researcher
He specializes in disaster and international nursing and has worked in disaster response and support for affected communities in Japan and abroad. His research covers nursing needs during disasters, access to health services for foreign residents, and how public health systems can continue to function during disasters. He supports nursing career development and research at Yodogawa Christian Hospital.
Researcher profileLecturers and assistants archive
Visiting lecturers and practice supervisors (2022–2023)
2023: 窪田和巳、伊藤紗紀子、駒形朋子、藤本要子、坂出由美子、長江宏美
2022: 窪田和巳、伊藤紗紀子、駒形朋子、坂出由美子、長江宏美、三好加奈子
Student, teaching, and research assistants (2022–2023)
2023: 青木由紀、久保一華、藤本要子, Peng Mengyun
2022: 神原千明、藤本要子
Technical assistant
小野佳子