Profile Overview
Policy Fellow


Naofumi Hashimoto
Policy Fellow

Naofumi HASHIMOTO is a medical laboratory technologist with 30 years of work experience in the health field in Asia and Africa. After the conventional typical laboratory work at general hospitals and at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) in Japan and at governmental and mission hospitals and health centers in Malawi and Uganda, he had 6 types of works: laboratory relate projects for increasing quality laboratory services in Zambia and Cambodia, disease control related projects for Polio eradication in Kenya and HIV Prevention Parents to Child Transmission in Zimbabwe, advanced technology or products adoption projects in Zambia, projects for regulatory on medical products in  Japan and African countries, projects for WHO pre-qualification on medical products, selection and procurement of medical devices including IVD devices for Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Many were project-based works and he planned some projects and played the roles of a Leader or an expert to the projects.

Expertise

Naofumi HASHIMOTO is a medical laboratory technologist with 30 years of work experience in the health field in Asia and Africa. After the conventional typical laboratory work at general hospitals and at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) in Japan and at governmental and mission hospitals and health centers in Malawi and Uganda, he had 6 types of works: laboratory relate projects for increasing quality laboratory services in Zambia and Cambodia, disease control related projects for Polio eradication in Kenya and HIV Prevention Parents to Child Transmission in Zimbabwe, advanced technology or products adoption projects in Zambia, projects for regulatory on medical products in  Japan and African countries, projects for WHO pre-qualification on medical products, selection and procurement of medical devices including IVD devices for Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Many were project-based works and he planned some projects and played the roles of a Leader or an expert to the projects.

Expertise

  • Medical Laboratory Service
  • Disease Control 
  • Adoption of advanced technology into health service in LMICs
  • Regulatory matters on medical products in LMICs and WHO
  • Selection and procurement of medical devices including Rapid Diagnostic Test Kits for LMICs

Education

2004

Master of Science in Public Health in Developing Countries 
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 

1988

Bachelor degree in Medical Laboratory Technology 
Kitasato Junior College of Hygienic Science, Department of Health, Tokyo, Japan 

 

Experience

2020

Policy Fellow Healthcare Unit 
Quality and Safety Regulations on Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta, Indonesia

2019

Principal Reviewer, Office of In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD), Medical Devices Unit
Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), Tokyo, Japan

2012

Medical Laboratory Technologist, Bureau of International Health Cooperation (BIHC)
National Centre of Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Tokyo, Japan

2005

Consultant 
TAC International Inc., Tokyo, Japan

2004

Special Advisor to the Managing Director of Human Development Cooperation Dept.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo, Japan

2003

Medical Laboratory Technologist in Republic of Uganda
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

1999-2002

Senior Volunteer as a project leader in the Republic of Kenya
Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV), Tokyo, Japan

1998

Consultant
Nihon Health Care Consultants Inc., Tokyo, Japan

1994

Assistant Research Technologist, HIV Laboratory, AIDS Research Center
National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), Tokyo, Japan

1991-1993

Medical Laboratory Technologist in the Republic of Malawi
Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV), Tokyo, Japan

1988-1990

Medical Laboratory Technologist 
Tokyo Kyosai Hospital, Tokyo, Japan


License 

1988

Medical Laboratory Technologist, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan


Publication 

Other 

  • Member of World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on In Vitro Diagnostics (SAGE IVD) 2019 for 2nd edition of WHO Essential Diagnostics List (EDL).