UK-Japan: A Partnership in Global Public Health
SIN Japan has been supporting the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to strengthen the UK-Japan partnership on global public health. Practical activities include the regular exchange of public health doctors, learning from each other’s public health methods, working together on emergency preparedness and increasing UK-Japan research collaboration.
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In May 2017, SIN Japan organised the visit of Duncan Selbie, CEO of PHE to Japan. During the visit, PHE and Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) signed an MOU to underpin the development of joint work on infectious diseases, outbreak management, AMR and health emergency preparedness; as well as public health planning and response for mass gathering events. As a result, MHLW have put in place a regular secondment programme with PHE, which sends medical officials to the UK for one year at a time. In addition, with SIN Japan’s support, PHE have been working with Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases and MHLW to improve infectious disease surveillance systems for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympics. SIN Japan held a joint seminar with MHLW in October 2018 that particularly focused on coordination between central and local government. This in turn has led to an agreement to conduct joint research on mental illness after natural disasters in both countries and in third countries, including the Caribbean.