Mahoko Kamatsuchi BA MA MPH

Research Degree Student (Doctorate in Public Health)

Mahoko Kamatsuchi's professional background includes 14 years of managing health and nutrition programmes in developing countries with UNICEF, the World Bank and Harvard School of Public Health.  At UNICEF, she served as child survival/health and nutrition programme manager in the Democratic Republic of Congo, maternal health programme manager in Indonesia, regional nutrition coordinator for Latin America & the Caribbean regional office based in Panama, and basic service delivery programme manager with focus on community-based nutrition and early education in Mexico.  As a nutrition specialist at the World Bank, she advised the governments of Uzbekistan and later for Niger to strategise on their health and nutrition national policies.  As public health analyst also at the World Bank, she collaborated in Iran 's health sector reform analysis.  Her latest position at Harvard School of Public Health was Senior Adviser of integrated health & nutrition for projects for PEPFAR (Presidential Emergency Funds for HIV/AIDS) for Tanzania.  Recently, Mahoko elaborated a Health Systems Strengthening programmatic tool for field implementation for Save the Children-UK. 

Mahoko's educational degrees include: Masters in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health; Masters in International Relations from Sophia University, Japan; postgraduate diploma in Food & Nutrition Security from Wageningen University, Netherlands; and Licenciatura en Letras from Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, Chile.

Affiliation

Research

Her research interests are in sub-Saharan African countries with poorly functioning health systems to devise optimal interventions to obtain better health outcomes, particularly in regards to prevention of child mortality. Particular focus is on implementation research of targeted child survival health and nutrition service delivery mechanisms and their effect on health systems strengthening, as well as the role of development aid agencies.

Research areas

  • Child health
  • Health policy
  • Health systems
  • Public health

Disciplines

  • Development studies
  • Policy analysis
  • Political science

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Other interests

  • Global Aid Assistance
  • Health In Fragile Countries
  • MARCH
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