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Project Leader
Hidenori HARADA
Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University / Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Environmental Engineering
His research focuses on WASH and water environment in Asian and Africa. He is currently appointed as a member of the strategic advisory group of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) and the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS).
Project Sub Leader
Daisuke SANO
Graduate School of Engineering Tohoku University
Yasuhiro ASADA
Research Center for Environmental Quality Management (RCEQM), Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Environmental Microbiology
His main research is the risk assessment of drinking water safety, especially microbial safety such as water source monitoring of microorganisms and risk assessment using epidemiological approaches.
Seiji NAKAO
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Historical Anthropology, African History
His research focuses on the history of Islam in West Africa. He has also been involved in sanitation studies due to his previous affiliation as a postdoctoral researcher with the "Sanitation Value Chains" project at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature.
Taro YAMAUCHI
Advisor to the President / Director, Center for Environmental and Health Sciences / Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University
Human Ecology, Planetary Health (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, WASH; Menstrual Health and Hygiene, MHH)
He has addressed lifestyle and health among various populations through intensive fieldwork in rural villages, urban slums and indigenous communities in the Global South. His recent research focuses on attitude and behavior changes and social transformation in local communities through Participatory Action Research (PAR).
Wutyi NAING
Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Environmental Engineering
She is a postdoctoral researcher in the SPLASH project. She completed her PhD at Kyoto University, specializing in environmental engineering. Her current research explores on WASH and water environment in Asian and Africa, contributing to innovative approaches in environmental sustainability and engineering solutions to address global environmental challenges.
Project Member
Shinya ECHIGO
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
Water Chemistry
His ｍain research focus is the chemical safety of drinking water, especially the reactions of natural and anthropogenic compounds and disinfectants. He is also an editor of Journal of Water and Health.
Shuichi OYAMA
Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Area Studies
His research covers a wide range of issues, including people's livelihoods, change of lifestyle, food system, land tenure system, chiefdom system and solid waste management issues. He began his research in Zambia, especially Muchinga Province in 1993. He can speak Bemba language, one of the major languages in Zambia. At the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), he is a leader of the Organic Material Circulation Project, which aims to create a new mode of society in which food waste is no longer disposed of as garbage.
Wakana OISHI
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
Environmental Engineering
Her research interests lie in the field of microbial risk management in sanitation systems. In the SPLASH project, she will be developing an assay of simultaneous enteropathogen quantification and elucidating the behaviours or lifestyles that determine the spread of enteropathogen in a living environment.
Yoshimi Kataoka
Office for Technical Support / Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University
Science and Technology Studies / Science Communication
She conducts “research on research” while practicing science and technology communication with a focus on visualization. Her approach is Laboratory Studies, which considers her experience in that practice as fieldwork.
Kazuki KAGOHASHI
Faculty of Global Liberal Studies / Institute for Social Ethics, Nanzan University
Ecological Economics
He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Global Liberal Studies, Nanzan University, Japan and a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School for Environment and Society, Australian National University (ANU). He also has a concurrent position as a Research Fellow at Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics and has led the "Social Resilience" research project since 2015. Through fieldwork in Australia and Japan, he has engaged in research on environmental and resource management systems (e.g., Landcare, pond irrigation, etc.) and the value theory of nature. His research interests include the sustainable relationship between nature and humans and the formal/informal institutions that support sustainable social and economic development.
Mohan AMARASHIRI
Environmental Water Quality Engineering Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
Public Health Engineering
He is conducting research related to pathogenic microorganisms and antimicrobial resistant bacteria in aquatic environments, focusing on contributing to achieve SDG3 and SDG6.
Ryota GOMI
Department of Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Microbial Genomics, Environmental Engineering
He obtained PhD (Engineering) from Kyoto University. Subsequently he worked as an assistant professor in Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. His current research interests include genomic analysis of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment.
Keisuke SATO
College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
Water Resources Eng., Water Environment Pollution Control, Watershed Informatics
His research focuses on the impact of climate change on lakes and watersheds from the aspects of flooding, water pollution, and water shortage. Based on experience as a JICA expert in the Japan-Vietnam University Project (Environmental Engineering Program) for two years until 2021, he hopes to propose technical development that can be implemented locally and initiatives that can be implemented by the citizens themselves.
Sikipo SNYAMBE
Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies、Hokkaido University
Motoki TAKAHASHI
Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Yukiko Tateyama
Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
Yukiko TATEYAMA
Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
Rika NAGASHIMA
School of Medicine, Hokkaido University
Tomonari MATSUDA
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Nobuyuki MISHIMA
Kansai Medical University Medical Center / Kansai Medical University
Travel Medicine, Tropical Infection, Global Health
Graduated from Kansai Medical University. After joining this university, he also conducted clinical practice in Beijing. During his stay in Beijing, he experienced the SARS pandemic and participated in the SARS control program as a member of a joint survey team of the WHO and the Chinese Ministry of Health. Since then, he has specialized in travel medicine at the Kansai Medical University Medical Center, and has also been involved in infectious disease control in Laos and Malawi. Doctor of Medicine, Certified Physician of Japanese Society of Travel and Health, Infectious Diseases Specialist, Infection Control Doctor, Certificate in Travel Health (ISTM), Board Member of the Japan Society of Travel and Health.
Yuki YADANI
Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Project Staff
Nobuyuki Iseri
JICA Zambia Office
Aya SHIOZAKI
Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Nyambe ANAYAWA
JICA-SPLAS Project, University of Zambia
Local Project Coordinator
Graduate School Students
Risako Ezumi
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Area study, Anthropology
Her research is going to focus on people living in compounds and land.
Shotaro GOTO
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University／Engineering Consulting Company
Environmental Engineering
His research and professional practice focus on WASH in Asian and Africa. He had been working at UNICEF Gambia as WASH specialist.
Jessy Z'GAMBO
Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University
Joy SAMBO
Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University
Noriko SUZUKI
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Yasutoki TAKAHASHI
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Chisanga LYOBA
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Her research focuses on participatory self-visualization approach for improving WASH practices in African Peri-Urban settlements.
Yorito YOSHIDA
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
His research focuses on the potential association between drinking water quality and living environment contamination and their diarrhea risk structure.