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. 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. medRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.09.09.24313259
  2. 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
  3. 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. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  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.
  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.
  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.