Specialty

Health emergency preparedness and response, disaster medicine, injury prevention, public health policy

Works

Original papers

1 Miyawaki A, Tomio J. Practice locations of physicians with highly educated spouses in Japan: A cross-sectional study using National Census Data. J Gen Fam Med. 2024;25(5):284-288.

2 Iba A, Tomio J, Sugiyama T, Abe K, Yamada I, Kobayashi Y. Association between spatial access and hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: A retrospective cohort study using claims data. SSM Popul Health.2023 v25:101565.

3 Takeda A, Ando Y, Tomio J. Long- and Short-Term Trends in Outpatient Attendance by Speciality in Japan: A Joinpoint Regression Analysis in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int J Environ Res Public Health.2023;20(23):7133.

4 Takeda A, Tomio J, Fukuda H, Ando Y, Yokoyama T. Trends in dental visits during the state of emergency for COVID-19 in Japan: a retrospective observational study. BMJ Open.2022;12(9):e064666.

5 Inada H, Tomio J, Nakahara S, Ichikawa M. Effect of annual road safety publicity and enforcement campaign on road fatalities in Japan: a time series study from 1949 to 2019. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2022;76(2):146-151.

6 Inada H, Tomio J, Ichikawa M, Nakahara S. Reduced Road Injuries While Commuting Due to Heavy Snowfall and Ensuing Modal Shifts Among Junior High School Students in Japan. J Epidemiol. 2022;32(9):408-414.

7 Shimonosono K, Takeda A, Seino K, Shimazaki D, Tomio J. Evaluation of regional differences in heatstroke occurrence using a regression model of heatstroke occurrence probability. J Natl Inst Public Health. 2025;74(2),119-129.(in Japanese)

Reviews

1 Shimada Y, Miwa E, Sakai E, Ishibashi M, Hirasawa Y, Minamitani K, Tomio J. Use of the term “triage” in academic research in Japan: A scoping review. J J Disast Med．2025;30(2):72-81. (in Japanese)

2 Shimonosono K, Takeda A, Seino K, Shimazaki D, Tomio J. Public health policies for heat health in major countries:
Overview of G20 member countries. J Natl Inst Public Health. 2025;74(2),157-168.(in Japanese)

Social contributions

・Delegate and editorial board member, Japanese Society of Public Health

・Board member, Japanese Association for Disaster Medicine

・Professor, Health Emergency Management, Doctoral Program in Public Health, University of Tsukuba
https://hcph.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/publichealth/program/

・Visiting Professor, Biomedical Innovation Policy Group, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
https://www.cbms.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/labs/tomio/

・Visiting Professor, Center for Health Security, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
https://www.chs.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index.html