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Shizuoka Graduate School of Public Health ”Toward Our Next Leap Forward”
President
MIYACHI Yoshiki
Thank you for visiting the newly redesigned website of Shizuoka Graduate University of Public Health.
Our university was established in the spring of 2021 as Japan’s first graduate institution dedicated exclusively to public health, without undergraduate programs. In 2023, we further expanded our academic offerings with the launch of a doctoral program. Today, our educational and research environment continues to mature, providing students with a setting in which they can pursue their studies with focus and engage deeply in advanced research.
Since our founding, we have steadily worked toward becoming a center for advancing public health from Shizuoka. Step by step, we have built our history by returning evidence-based research outcomes to communities both within and beyond the prefecture, and by linking research directly to the development and implementation of health policy. We take pride in having demonstrated to society a new model of what a graduate university can be.
We are also actively promoting practice-oriented research using medical big data, translating the findings of regional cohort studies into societal benefit, strengthening collaboration with major hospitals and universities within the prefecture, and fostering partnerships among academia, industry, government, and local communities. Guided by the motto of “active public health,” we aim to contribute in visible and meaningful ways to the improvement of well-being among the people of Shizuoka Prefecture.
As a unique graduate university specializing in public health, Shizuoka SPH will continue to move forward and grow. Through this website, I warmly invite those who wish to study public health, broaden their professional horizons, or pursue a path as researchers to join our academic community.
I am confident that each individual’s learning and challenges here will contribute not only to Shizuoka Prefecture, but also to the realization of our guiding vision: making the world a healthier place.
Our university was established in the spring of 2021 as Japan’s first graduate institution dedicated exclusively to public health, without undergraduate programs. In 2023, we further expanded our academic offerings with the launch of a doctoral program. Today, our educational and research environment continues to mature, providing students with a setting in which they can pursue their studies with focus and engage deeply in advanced research.
Since our founding, we have steadily worked toward becoming a center for advancing public health from Shizuoka. Step by step, we have built our history by returning evidence-based research outcomes to communities both within and beyond the prefecture, and by linking research directly to the development and implementation of health policy. We take pride in having demonstrated to society a new model of what a graduate university can be.
We are also actively promoting practice-oriented research using medical big data, translating the findings of regional cohort studies into societal benefit, strengthening collaboration with major hospitals and universities within the prefecture, and fostering partnerships among academia, industry, government, and local communities. Guided by the motto of “active public health,” we aim to contribute in visible and meaningful ways to the improvement of well-being among the people of Shizuoka Prefecture.
As a unique graduate university specializing in public health, Shizuoka SPH will continue to move forward and grow. Through this website, I warmly invite those who wish to study public health, broaden their professional horizons, or pursue a path as researchers to join our academic community.
I am confident that each individual’s learning and challenges here will contribute not only to Shizuoka Prefecture, but also to the realization of our guiding vision: making the world a healthier place.
President’s Profile
Prof. Miyachi was born in Shizuoka City in 1951 and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University.
After serving as a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, and as Head of the Department of Dermatology at Tenri Hospital, he was appointed Professor of Dermatology at the Faculty of Medicine, Gunma University in 1992.
In 1998, he became Professor of Dermatology at the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University.
From 2014, he served as Director and President of Shiga Medical Center for Adults (now Shiga General Hospital) and was named Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University.
He assumed his current position in 2021.
His areas of expertise include dermatology, allergology, and public health.