Ichiro Kawachi

Ichiro Kawachi is a social epidemiologist of Japanese origin who was trained in New Zealand.

Chan School of Public Health where he is also the chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Subramanian, he is the co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Social Science & Medicine [2][3] and the sister open access journal SSM – Population Health.

In 2018, Kawachi was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

[4] He is also an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Ichiro Kawachi in his early twenties, outside his student flat in Wellington, New Zealand