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Lecture No. 11 What are the benefits of patient engagement and local community health?

Norie Kawahara is the Public Relations Director for Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Japan. Since 2007 and the time of the Asian Cancer Registry and Information Network meeting held in Nanjing, China, Dr Kawahara has served as a member of UICC-Japan and UICC Asia Regional Office, engaging in a wide range of public relations activities, including UICC’s Asia-related policies and events for World Cancer Day (WCD). As Representative Director of the Asia Cancer Forum, she is involved in public–private collaborations on policy recommendation initiatives that seek to raise cancer on the global health agenda. Through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), she is also engaged in implementation research on the theme of preventive education for cancer in Asia, and also works on interdisciplinary research on cancer. At the Japan Medical Association Research Institute, she moved from research in the area of protection and utilization of human body-related information to policy research on cancer information in Asia. She subsequently worked as a research assistance advisor at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, before being appointed as a Research Fellow at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Tokyo. Since 2010, she has been concentrating on research that aims to raise the level of cancer care in Asia. Since 2015, she is working as a specially appointed Lecturer at The University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, involved in educational programme development for cross-boundary cancer studies that address cancer-related issues from multiple societal perspectives. She received her doctoral degree from Juntendo University for her research and surveys of the quality of life of prostate cancer patients.