Cell Unit Member

Mutsuyo Kadohira  

Mutsuyo Kadohira, D.V.M., M.P.V.M (U. of California), Ph.D (Guelph) Associate Professor, Department of Animal Science, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Japan

Academic profile

1978 March
DVM, Iwate University, School of Veterinary Medicine, Japan
1986 September
MPVM (Master’s degree), University of California, Davis, USA
1994 November
PhD in Veterinary Epidemiology, University of Guelph, Canada

Working experience

1978-1980
Veterinary Public Health officer, Saitama Prefectural Government
1981-1983
Veterinary Officer, Ndola Veterinary Office, Zambia
1987-1990
Veterinary Epidemiologist (FAO expert), Kenya
1995-1999
Veterinary Epidemiologist (JICA expert) and Senior lecturer at Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
1999-2005
Associate Professor, Nagoya University, Japan
2005-
Associate Professor, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Japan

Field of expertise: Veterinary epidemiology and risk assessment

Areas of my research topics are veterinary epidemiology, veterinary communication, risk assessment, food safety at farm level, participatory research, international agricultural development and livestock development in Africa. At present, I have been involved in 1) “Establishment of livestock management systems for implementing farm-level food safety regulations in Japan”, 2) “Study of BSE risk and devising surveillance system in Hokkaido, Japan”, 3) “Study of factors inhibiting livestock development among small scale farmers in Kenya”, and 4) “Surveillance of zoonotic diseases in Thailand”.

Mutsuyo Kadohira