Profile

• Guest researcher, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University
• Research Fellow (JSPS), Institute for the Future of Human Society, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
• Collaborator, Department of Social Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
• Guest Associate Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University, Japan
• Member of a working group of One Welfare Phoenix
• Research fields: Social epidemiology, Public Health

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, the University of Tokyo, 2022.
  — My doctoral dissertaion is available here.
  The impact of rural context on suicide mortality and its potential mechanisms: A Swedish registry-based multilevel cohort study focusing on country of birth
• Master of Public Health, the University of Tokyo, 2018
• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, 2015

International collaboration

• Apr 2023- Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University
• Sep-Oct 2019 Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University
• ​Feb-Mar 2019 Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University

Honors

• Jan 2022 12th (FY2021) IKUSHI Prize by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. This is the most prestigious award for doctoral students in all academic fields in Japan. The Japanese Emperor encourage the awarded students. Research theme: Identifying the social determinants of suicide in rural areas and developing a community empowerment model for suicide prevention. For more detail: https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-ikushi-prize/index.html
  
• Dec 2022 Most viewed on J-Stage.
  Kanamori M., Kondo N., Nakamura Y. (2021). Infant mortality rates for farming and unemployed households in the Japanese prefectures: An ecological time trend analysis, 1999-2017. J Epidemiol., 31: 43–51. https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20190090
• Apr 2022 TOP CITED ARTICLE 2020-2021 in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.
  Kanamori, M. and Kondo, N. (2020), Suicide and Types of Agriculture: A Time-Series Analysis in Japan. Suicide Life Threat Behav, 50: 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12559
• Apr 2020 TOP DOWNLOADED PAPER 2018-2019 in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Among work published between January 2018 and December 2019, this paper received some of the most downloads in the 12 months following online publication. Here is the link to the awarded paper:
  Kanamori, M. and Kondo, N. (2020), Suicide and Types of Agriculture: A Time-Series Analysis in Japan. Suicide Life Threat Behav, 50: 122-137. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12559

Experience

• Apr 2022 – Jul 2025 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• Sep 2019 Visiting Researcher, Stockholm University
• Apr 2019 – Mar 2022 Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• Apr 2018 – Mar 2019 Researcher, Japan Agency for Gerontological Evaluation Study
• Apr 2015 – Mar 2017 Clinical Veterinarian, Hokkaido Higashi Nogyo Kyosai Kumiai (Agricultural Insurance Association)

Research grant

• 2022-2024 Research Grant. the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 2019-2021 Research Grant. the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 2018-19 Travel Grant and Small Grant. Graduate Program for Social ICT Global Creative Leaders (GCL). the University of Tokyo
• 2018 Research Grant. the Health Care Science Institute. Japan
• 2018 Research Grant. Seseragi foundation. Japan

Fellowships

• 2025-2027 Overseas Research Fellowships-RRA, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 2025-2027 Overseas Research Fellowships, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (I declined the offer after I was awarded because I chose another fellowship)
• 2022-2025 Postdoctoral Research fellow, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 2019-2022 Research fellow, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 2018-2022 Qualified student, Graduate Program for Social ICT Global Creative Leaders (GCL), the University of Tokyo
• 2018-2020 Tuition fee exemption, the University of Tokyo

• BMC Public Health, BMC Psychiatry, SSM – Population Health – , JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, International Journal of Environmental Health Research, BMJ Open, etc.
• BMJ Open: “Thank you to our reviewers” (Dec 2020)

Teaching experience & Other

• Nov 2021 “Food and Ecosystems / Environmental Background of Health and Nutrition in Japan.” (90min*2). Guest speaker in the Public Health Sciences course. Department of Nutrition, Kanagawa Prefectural University of Health and Welfare
• Apr – July 2023 Parental leave