Toshiaki R. Asakura

Toshiaki R. Asakura

Joint PhD at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Nagasaki University

Publications

You can also find my articles at my ORCID, ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

Preprints

  1. Jin, S., Asakura, T. R., Murayama, H., Niyukuri, D., Saila-Ngita, D., Lim, J. T., … & Dickens, B. L. (2025). Vaccine demands to achieve outbreak control for MPXV Clade I with one-time mass campaign in sub-Saharan Africa: scenario-based modelling study. medRxiv, 2025-01. doi:10.1101/2025.01.17.25320753
  2. Murayama, H.†, Asakura, T. R.†, Dickens, B. L., Foo, J. H., Jin, S., Mukadi, P. K., … Endo, A. (2024). Roles of community and sexual contacts as drivers of clade I mpox outbreaks. medRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.10.15.24315554
  3. Asakura, T. R., & O’Reilly, K. M. (2024). Assessing early detection ability through spatial arrangements in environmental surveillance for poliovirus: a simulation-based study. medRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.08.17.24312151
  4. Asakura, T. R., Jung, S. M., Murayama, H., Ghaznavi, C., Sakamoto, H., Teshima, A., … & Endo, A. (2024). Projecting international mpox spread in Asia: ongoing global health risk. medRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.04.17.24305832

Journal Publications

  1. Asakura, T. R., Jung, S.-M., Jin, S., Hu, G., Endo, A., & Dickens, B. L. (2024). Characterising global risk profiles of Mpox clade Ib importation. Journal of Travel Medicine. doi:10.1093/jtm/taae136
  2. Kurotori, I., Asakura, T. R., Kimura, T., Hori, M., Hosozawa, M., Saijo, M., Iso, H., & Tamakoshi, A. (2024). The Association between COVID-19-Related Discrimination and Probable Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Patients with COVID-19 in Sapporo, Japan. Journal of Epidemiology, JE20230360, doi:10.2188/jea.JE20230360
  3. Sunohara, S., Asakura, T. R., Kimura, T., Saijo, M., & Tamakoshi, A. (2024). Traditional and Social Media Usage Associated With COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Sapporo, Japan. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 10105395241240952. doi:10.1177/10105395241240952
  4. Asakura, T.†, Kimura, T.†, Kurotori, I., Kenichi, K., Hori, M., Hosogawa, M., … & Tamakoshi, A. (2023). Case–Control Study of Long COVID, Sapporo, Japan. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 29(5), 956. doi:10.3201/eid2905.221349
  5. Watanuki, D., Tamakoshi, A., Kimura, T., Asakura, T., & Saijo, M. (2023). Patient characteristics and public health office factors associated with long reporting delay of COVID-19 cases in Sapporo City, Japan. Journal of Epidemiology, JE20220359. doi:10.2188/jea.JE20220359
  6. Saito, Y., Asakura, T., Takashi, K., Umazume, T., Watari, H., & Tamakoshi, A. (2023). Relationship between out‐of‐facility deliveries and distance and travel time to delivery facilities in Hokkaido, Japan: An ecological study. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research. doi:10.1111/jog.15543
  7. Sasamori, H.†, Asakura, T.†, Sugiura, C., Bouchekioua, Y., Nishitani, N., Sato, M., … & Yoshioka, M. (2022). Behavioral characteristics of dopamine D5 receptor knockout mice. Scientific reports, 12(1), 6014. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-10013-5
  8. Sunohara, S.†, Asakura, T.†, Kimura, T., Ozawa, S., Oshima, S., Yamauchi, D., & Tamakoshi, A. (2021). Effective vaccine allocation strategies, balancing economy with infection control against COVID-19 in Japan. PLoS One, 16(9), e0257107. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0257107

(† Equal contribution)

Conference Presentations

  1. Asakura, T. R., Jung, S., Murayama, H., Miura, F., & Endo, A. (2024, January-February). Projecting international mpox spread in Asia: ongoing global health risk [Poster presentation]. The 34th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japan Epidemiological Association, Shiga Japan. Poster PDF
  2. Asakura, T., & O’Reilly, K. M. (2023, December). A quantitative simulation-based evaluation of the early detection of poliovirus using environmental surveillance [Oral presentation]. 9th Epidemics International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics, Bologna, Italy. Slide PDF
  3. Asakura, T. (2020, October). The student’s enlightenment activity against COVID-19: No More Corona Project [Oral presentation]. The 79th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Public Health, Kyoto, Japan. Slide PDF
  4. Asakura, T., & Nishiura, H. (2019, April). Monitoring the transmissibility of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) virus in poultry: A birth-death skyline model [Poster presentation]. World-leading next generation MD researchers and training project 2019 National Retreat, Nagoya, Japan. Poster PDF

Academic Outreach

  1. Asakura, T. R., Jung, S.-M., Jin, S., Hu, G., Endo, A., & Dickens, B. L. (2024, October). Characterising global risk profiles of Mpox clade Ib importation. Journal of Travel Medicine. Mpox Community Call at WHO Collaboratry. Slide PDF

Reviewer Experience

PLoS Computational Biology (1), Scientific Reports (1), BMC Public Health (1), Critical Public Health (1).

Acknowledged Publications

  1. Ishii, H., Takai, Y., Marui, Y., Yamazaki, Y., Kato, Y., & Kori, H. (2025). Uncovering influence of football players’ behaviour on team performance in ball possession through dynamical modelling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06574.