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Nahoko Shindo
MD, PhD
Medical Officer
Global Influenza Programme, World Health Organization
Dr. Shindo received her M.D. from The Jikei University School of Medicine in 1990, and is a consultant physician and an infectious disease specialist. Dr. Shindo is also a qualified Infection Control Doctor. She received additional clinical training in general surgery, vascular surgery, and neurosurgery at St. Thomas' Hospital (London, UK) and the Radcliffe Infirmary (Oxford, UK). Upon her return to Japan, she took her position as a resident in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Jikei University Hospital. She got her PhD in 1997 in microbiology. In 1998, she began her post-doctoral research residency in the Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, and was promoted to Senior Researcher in 2000 at National Institute of Infectious Diseases. She was assigned to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2002, where she has been working on a variety of projects including global outbreak alert and response, infection control and clinical management of dangerous pathogens. She is married and is a mother of two children.
WHO Activities
Dr. Shindo has been involved in various activities in response to major infectious dieases outbreaks including viral hemorrhagic fevers, SARS and avian influenza.
[SARS] Activities include information gathering and intelligence, developing global alert and diagnostic criteria, clinical sample tracking and drafting infection control guidelines for medical facilities and clinical management guidelines. She has been dispatched to Singapore and has been involved in the control of SARS.
[Influenza] Activities include development of advices for residents in affected areas, guidelines for persons involved in mass slaughtering operations, guidelines for infection control for medical facilities, guidelines for clinical management, consensus documents on public health measures for influenza pandemics, and protocol for rapid containment. She has also been in charge of influenza-related conferences, such as the WHO Conference on Public Health Measures for influenza Pandemics, Conference on rapid Containment of influenza pandemic, and rapid advisory group meeting on pharmacological management of humans with H5N1 infections. She was dispatched to Turkey as the person in charge of infection control during the avian influenza outbreak in January 2006.
[Other Major Activities] In 2005, she was responsible for coordinating the infectious disease surveillance of countries affected by the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami aftermath for the prevention of major infectious diseases outbreaks, at the WHO Southeast Asia Office. She was also responsible for infection control in Angola at its largest viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak in history. She is also at the forefront of international health crisis management at the Strategic Health Operations Centre, which is at the core of WHO operations with state-of-the-art technology.
She is a physician certified by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, an infectious disease specialist certified by the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases, an Infection Control Doctor certified by the Japanese College of Infection Control Doctors, and an industrial physician certified by the Japan Medical Association.
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