Kayo Takuma

Kayo Takuma

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Kayo Takuma is a professor of international politics at the Faculty of Law and Politics, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Her research interest is global health governance’s origin, evolution, and challenges, with a focus on its relationship with the changing international political order. In this regard, she has been engaged in several projects, such as a comparative study on G7 countries’ contribution to the implementation of the International Health Regulations and health cooperation in Asia. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Tokyo. Her major publications are Kayo Yasuda, Kokusai Seiji no nakano kokusai hoken jigyō [International Health Work in International Politics: From the League of Nations Health Organisation to the WHO and UNICEF], Minerva Shobō, 2014; Kayo Takuma, Jinrui to Yamai: Kokusai Seiji Kara Miru Kansen Sho to Kenko Kakusa [The Mankind and Diseases: Infectious Diseases and Health Inequality in International Politics], Chuokoron Shinsha, 2020; Kayo Takuma, ‘Global Solidarity is Necessary to End the COVID-19 Pandemic’, Asia Pacific Review, 27-2 (2020), pp.46-56.

Research theme: Global health governance’s origin
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