Employment
Apr 2018- present Associate Professor, Department of Medical Statistics,
Research and Development Center,
Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University
Apr 2015- Mar 2018 Senior Researcher, Center for Cancer Control and Statistics,
Osaka Medical Centre for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases
(Cancer Control Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute)
Apr 2010- Mar 2015 Researcher, Center for Cancer Control and Statistics,
Osaka Medical Centre for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases
Apr 2007 – Mar 2010 Research Fellow, Center of Cancer Control and Statistics,
Osaka Medical Centre for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases
Education
Aug 2006 – Jan 2007 Visiting Research Fellow, Cancer Research UK Cancer Survival Group
Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
2004 - 2007 PhD in Health Science, Department of Mathematical Health Science
Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University
“Trends and regional differences in cancer survival based on population-based cancer registry data in Japan”
2002 - 2004 MSc in Health Science, Department of Mathematical Health Science
Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University
“Cancer survival using period analysis in Nagasaki, Japan”
1997-2002 Faculty of Health Science, Osaka University
Awarded the degree of BSc in Health Science

Publications
Ito Y, Miyashiro I, Ishikawa T, Akazawa K, Fukui K, Katai H, Nunobe S, Oda I, Isobe Y, Tsujitani S, Ono H, Tanabe S, Fukagawa T, Suzuki S, Kakeji Y, Sasako M, Bilchik A, Fujita M. Determinant Factors on Differences in Survival for Gastric Cancer Between the United States and Japan Using Nationwide Databases. J Epidemiol. 2021;31:241-8.

Ito Y, Rachet B. Chapter 12. Cancer Inequalities in Japan. In: Brunner E, Cable N, Iso H, editors. Health in Japan Social Epidemiology of Japan since the 1964 Tokyo Olympics: Oxford University Press; 2020. Nakaya T, Ito Y. Eds. The Atlas of Health Inequalities in Japan. Springer Nature Switzerland; 2019.
Ito Y, Nakaya T, Ioka A, Nakayama T, Tsukuma H, Uehara S, Kogawa Sato K, Endo G, Hayashi T: Investigation of Spatial Clustering of Biliary Tract Cancer Incidence in Osaka, Japan: Neighborhood Effect of a Printing Factory. J Epidemiol 2016, 26(9):459-463.