Dr Fumiko Kasuga
Current ICMSF member
Nagasaki University and Future Earth Global Secretariat, Japan
Secretary 2011 – 2015 | Member since 2003 | Consultant 2002
Dr Kasuga is Professor, Nagasaki University School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health/ Interfaculty Initiative in Planetary Health. She is also Global Hub Director-Japan at Future Earth global secretariat. She graduated and received Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo, Japan. Dr Kasuga was formerly a Director at the National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan until March 2016, working on microbiological risk analysis for food safety and epidemiology of foodborne diseases, with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan and the Food Safety Commission. Internationally, she was working with WHO, FAO, in JEMRA and FERG. Before joining Nagasaki University in April, 2024, she was Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan. She was Vice-President of Science Council of Japan in charge of international activities in 2011-2014.