Dr Naoko Ishikawa

Dr Ishikawa is a staff physician at AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine Japan, and an advisor for infectious disease data analysis and clinical care support at the Division of Health and Welfare in Ibaraki prefecture. She also works at Anzu clinic providing sexual and reproductive health care for women and girls. She has previously worked for WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific as a coordinator of HIV, viral hepatitis and STI unit. Her main area of work includes provision of technical support for the development of strategies, planning, implementation and evaluation of public health responses and programmes against communicable diseases with particular focus on HIV, STI, viral hepatitis, and recently COVID-19.

Originally trained as a physician in Japan, Dr Ishikawa obtained a master’s degree on Infection and Health in the Tropics at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and PhD from the University of London. She has worked on the control and elimination of communicable diseases in low and middle-income countries for over 20 years, of which the last 15 years was focusing on public health responses and research in Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa.