Japan Association for International Health has been founded in 1986.
In 1983, at the 21st General Assembly of Japan Association of Medical Sciences in Osaka, an symposium was held on international health. After that in 1986, the first national meeting was hosted by Prof. N.Tsuyama in Tokyo and the Japan Association for International Health was inaugurated. Since then national meetings were held every year in Japan. In 2003, 18th national meeting was held in Kyushu. The association has grown up from adolescence to adulthood by now.
After the World War II, Japan has suffered from chaotic state and recovered gradually. Now Japan has built up a country with the highest life expectancy in the world. This is wonderful, however Japan can not enjoy herself without bringing the same state in the world. Japan has to work to solve the difference in health standard.
Originally health science has no country boundary. Nowadays every work on health is global.
The field of international health is an important part of international cooperation of Japan. We, the member of this association, should make every possible efforts to contribute people in the world.
Japan as a donor country ranked in top class. This is also a wonderful thing and we should make full use of this in attaining top class work in international health.
The world is border-less now in 21st century and internationalization is accelerated day by day. Everyone who works on health work on international health nowadays.
Member of this association work on international cooperation based on the science of international health. We should strengthen the science of international health through our work.
Various factors are involved in international cooperation, however, we should strive to workout what is the priority, what is cost-effective, who is the best person and so on. We should promote the science based action/administration(SBA) in our daily work. We work in the laboratory, we go to the field to investigate, we discuss and we publish our results.
Our association is now to cerebrate two decades. Active work, research, discussion and publication of all members are expected.