About Health Communication Week Organization (HCWO)
In April 2022, the Japanese Association of Health Communication (JAHC) was restructured to become the Health Communication Week Organization (HCWO). As a consequence, the subsidiary associations of the former JAHC became associations of HCWO. In addition, the newly created Japanese Association of Health-care Communication became a subsidiary association of HCWO and a new subsidiary association of HCWO was founded with the same name as the former JAHC, but was positioned differently.
It is possible to consider all these former subsidiary associations as representing academic subfields in health communication studies, but the terms used in their names have different nuances. On the basis of these differences, rather than directly positioning each discipline as broad aspects of health communication studies, we believe they should be positioned loosely as “health communication-related areas,” while keeping a certain degree of independence.
HCWO oversees membership management, fee collection, and information services for seven subsidiary academic societies related to health communication studies. HCWO hosts the annual Health Communication Week (HCW), which is a joint academic Conference for the subsidiary associations. In addition, each subsidiary association is responsible for planning its own academic Conference and editing their academic journals.
The following is a list of the subsidiary associations for HCWO.
- Japanese Association of Health Communication
- Japanese Health Literacy Association
- Japanese Association of Medical Communication
- Japan Society for Healthcare Interpreting Studies
- Japanese Association of Health Marketing
- Japanese Association of Medical Science Communication
- Japanese Association of Healthcare Communication
President and Vice Presidents
- President: MIYAHARA,Akira, Ph.D.
- Vice President: NAKAYAMA,Takeo, M.D.,Ph.D.
- Vice President: KIUCHI,Takahiro, M.D., Ph.D.
Board Members
- MIYAHARA,Akira, Ph.D.
Professor, Faculty of Foreign Language Studies, Seinan Gakuin University
- NAKAYAMA,Takeo, M.D.,Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Health Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine & School of Public Health, Kyoto University
- KIUCHI,Takahiro, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Health Communication, School of Public Health, The University of Tokyo
- ISHIKAWA,Hirono, Ph.D.
Professor, Teikyo University Graduate School of Public Health
- SUGIMOTO,Naomi, Ph.D.
Professor, Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care, Keio University
- TAKAYAMA,Tomoko, R.N., Ph.D.
Professor,Shizuoka Graduate School of Public Health
- ISHIKAWA,Hirono, Ph.D.
Professor,Teikyo University Graduate School of Public Health
- KAWAGUCHI,Hiroyuki, D.D.S.,Ph.D.
Professor,Hiroshima University Hospital, Department of General Dentistry
- ABE,Keiko, R.N., Ph.D.
Professor,Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Kinjo Gakuin University
- AKIYAMA,Miki, Ph.D.
Professor,Faculty of Environemnet and Infromation Studies, Keio University
- SUGIMORI,Hiroki, M.D, PhD, MMedSc
Professor,Daito Bunka University, Faculty of Sports and Health Science, Department of Nursing, Professor
Auditors
- HAGIHARA,Akihito, Ph.D.
Visiting Director, Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
- OGAWA,Tetsuji, D.D.S, Ph.D.
Former Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University
