Specialty

Public health nursing, cultural care

Works

Research reports

1 MARUTANI Miki. A study on the development of training for professional development in employment assessment using a apps： Health, Labour and Welfare Sciences Research Grant (Field of Disease and Disability Control Research Comprehensive Research on Policies for Persons with Disabilities Research Project) (Project No. 23GC1009〉 (primary investigator) Reiwa FY6；2025．

Original papers

1 Onoue, T., Nishida, K., Nakata, Y., Hayashi, F., Marutani, M., Sakane, et al. Effectiveness of recommendations in promoting the use of mobile health applications in health guidance: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of occupational health, 2025;67(1), uiaf036.　

Reviews

1 Marutani M. Takezawa T. Current status and future prospects of assessment for employment choice support for people with disabilities in Japan. J. Natl. Inst. Public Health. 2026;75(1):52-62.

2 MARUTANI Miki, OFUNE Tomomi, NOZAKA Akiko, NAGASU Natsuki, ENOKIDO Midori, SATO Miki, et al. Pioneering and suggestions for training in the practices of Graduates of Community Health and Welfare Course at the National Institute of Public Health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of public health 2025；74(5):509-517.

Conference presentations

1 Miki Marutani. Culturally sensitive disaster nursing by nurses in Japan. 5. Uluslararası 8. Ulusal Kültürlerarası Hemşirelik Kongresi; 2025.12.4; Çanakkale,Turkey.

2 Miki Marutani，Kako Mayumi，Hiroko Okuda. Development of Training on Disaster Health Activities that Preserve Local Characteristics. Japan association for disaster medicine 31st conference；2025．3．19-21；Niigata．

Social contributions

・Reviewer: Japan Journal of Academy Community Health Nursing、Journal of Chiba Academy of Nursing Science, Journal of Nursing Science、BMC Nursing、 Nursing & Health Sciences
・Ethical Committee member of the Japanese society for Oral Health
・JEED : Research Committee on the Difficulty of Working for Patients with Intractable Diseases（2022-2023）
・Reviewer ：KAKENHI:Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Others (awards, etc.)

・2025: Employment Assessment App ‘Waraifu’. Research deliverables on the development of training to improve the expertise of employment assessments using the app, supported by the 2025 Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Scientific Research Grant (Comprehensive Research Project on Policies for Persons with Disabilities).
・2025: Training DVD for improving expertise in employment assessment. Research outcomes on the development of training for enhancing expertise in employment assessment using an application, funded by the Health and Labor Sciences Research Grant for FY 2023-2025 (Comprehensive Research Project on Disability Policy).
・Created a DVD with training videos and EXCEL tools.(With a grant from the Health Science Center （2023）
・2021：Create Patient-Family Integration Tool for support workers with intractable diseases: Using a Univeil grant（2021）
・The Best Poster Award “Cultural competency and health beliefs of Filipino female caregivers in Okinawa prefecture”. Trans Cultural Nursing Science（2020）
・Outstanding Presentation Award “A Study on the Development of Motivational Support Technology for the Prevention of Lifestyle-related Diseases in Middle-aged Workers” Japan 23rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Community Health Nursing,(2020 )
・Excellent Paper Award: The construction of a hospital discharge planning system devised by discharge coordination nurses. Bulletin of the Graduate School of Nursing, Chiba University 41.2019.1-11