Department of Social and Preventive Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The University of Tokyo


School of Public health, the University of Tokyo


Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo


Medical Library, the University of Tokyo


the University of Tokyo

Research topics


Nutritional epidemiology
  Nutritional epidemiology is a general term for epidemiologic research which mainly study topics of nutrition and diet. In short, nutritional epidemiology is “science which serves to conduct and understand the association between food or dietary habit and health using epidemiologic methodology.” The Department of Social and Preventive Epidemiology at The University of Tokyo conducts research on the methodology. In other words, we conduct research which relate to theory and methodology for method of the dietary assessment (assessment methodology). By developing a self-administered diet history questionnaire (DHQ) and a brief-type self-administered diet history questionnaire (BDHQ), we conduct fundamental research. Based on the research evidence obtained from the fundamental research, we investigate association between diet and dietary habits and health issues.

  Nutritional epidemiology is as a crucial area of the study offering scientific evidence in serving practices for disease prevention or/and treatment. Unfortunately, no school had existed conducting research and offering education of nutritional epidemiology in Japan. Thus, the Department of Social and Preventive Epidemiology at The University of Tokyo has an important role in order to communicate research evidence obtained in Japan to the world and to communicate research evidence of the world to Japanese population.

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