Dr Norio Ohmagari

Deputy Director General of the Centre Hospital, Director of the Disease Control and Prevention Centre and Director, AMR Clinical Reference Centre of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) 

Nationality – Japan 

Dr Norio Ohmagari, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Japanese) is the Deputy Director General of the Centre Hospital, Director of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Centre of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Japan.

Dr Ohmagari completed his clinical fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Texas-Houston. After serving as Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at Shizuoka Cancer Center, Dr Ohmagari joined NCGM in 2011, which is one of six national medical centres in Japan with a focus on infectious diseases. At NCGM, Dr Ohmagari has served as Director of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention since 2012.

He also serves as the Director of the AMR Clinical Reference Center, which is commissioned by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. Dr Ohmagari contributes to WHO as Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Antimicrobial Resistance (JPN-98).

As a physician, Dr Ohmagari is directly involved in the clinical management of patients with infectious diseases. Dr Ohmagari is also actively involved in antimicrobial resistance control activities in Japan. At the same time, Dr Ohmagari works on the field response to infectious disease crisis management in Japan.