Mr Takuya Yamanaka
Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Public Health & Policy (Nagasaki)
United Kingdom
I am based in Geneva, Switzerland and working as a technical officer of Global Tuberculosis Programme in the World Health Organization - working for TB economics, finance and data management.
I am a research degree student in Health Economics, enrolled in the Joint PhD Programme between LSHTM and Nagasaki University, Japan. My research topics are: assessing costs incurred by households with concurrent TB and diabetes, costs to provide diabetes outpatient services for TB patients, (extended) cost effectiveness analysis of providing diabetes screening and diagnosis integrated within TB programme in the Philippines.
I obtained my degree in Physics from Tohoku University, Japan and hold an MPH from School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Japan.
I am a research degree student in Health Economics, enrolled in the Joint PhD Programme between LSHTM and Nagasaki University, Japan. My research topics are: assessing costs incurred by households with concurrent TB and diabetes, costs to provide diabetes outpatient services for TB patients, (extended) cost effectiveness analysis of providing diabetes screening and diagnosis integrated within TB programme in the Philippines.
I obtained my degree in Physics from Tohoku University, Japan and hold an MPH from School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Japan.
Affiliations
Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Research
Research Area
Health economics
Mathematical modelling
Infectious disease policy
Social policy
Disease and Health Conditions
Tuberculosis
Diabetes
Country
Philippines
Laos
Solomon Islands
Pakistan
Thailand
Indonesia
Region
East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)
Middle East & North Africa (developing only)
Selected Publications
Scoring tools to identify TB patients facing catastrophic costs in the Philippines.
2023
Public Health Action
Intensified research on tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: a bibliometric analysis, 2000-2019.
2020
Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal