Okabe Nobuhiko

Director general, Kawasaki City Institute for Public Health. Holds an MD and a PhD in medicine. Member of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare’s COVID-19 advisory board and other government panels dealing with the pandemic. Graduated from the Jikei University School of Medicine in 1971 and went on to study pediatric infectious diseases research at Vanderbilt University in the United States. Previous positions include visiting professor of pediatrics at Jikei and director of the Infectious Disease Surveillance Center in the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Assumed his current post in 2013.