The is a government research and training organization charged with improving public health in

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Mission

The institute was established in 2002 as part of a reorganization of national health organizations. It integrates the former Institute of Public Health, the former National Institute of Health Services Management, and part of the Department of Oral Science from the National Institute of Infectious Disease. It is located in the city of Wakō in

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. The mission of the institute is to train professionals working in the fields of public health, environmental hygiene, and social welfare, and to conduct research in those areas. It is divided into 15 research and education departments, and houses an information center that distributes periodic bulletins to more than 2000 institutions in Japan and overseas. In 2005, about 4,300 trainees attended educational programs at the institute.

History

*1938: The Institute of Public Health was founded under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. *1940: Renamed the Welfare National Science Laboratory and merged with a nutritional institute under the jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry. *1942: Integrated into the Health and Welfare Research Laboratory, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. *1946: Reestablished as the Institute of Public Health. *2002: Reorganized as the National Institute of Public Health and moved to Wako. *2018: Former building in

Shirokanedai is a highly affluent district of Minato, Tokyo. The district today is made up of 5 ''chome''. As of November 1, 2007, the population of Shirokanedai is 10,001. The former neighborhood of Shirokanedai (Shirokanedaimachi, 白金台町) consisted o ...

, Minato renovated as a municipal complex.

Former building

The former building of the institute was designed by architect

Yoshikazu Uchida was a Japanese architect and structural engineer. He designed many buildings on the campus of the University of Tokyo, and served as the 14th president of the university. Career Uchida was one of five 1907 graduates from the Department of Archit ...

and was built in the

district of Tokyo with financial assistance from the American

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. It has been designated a historic structure by the

Architectural Institute of Japan The Architectural Institute of Japan, or AIJ, is a Japanese professional body for architects, building engineers, and researchers in architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skil ...

in 1982. The building was abandoned long time after the institute's moving, but Minato Ward bought in 2009 and renovated in 2018 as a complex including museum of local history, home palliative service station, after-school children's day-care center, and child care consulting office.

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Public health organizations Government agencies established in 2002 National public health agencies 2002 establishments in Japan Government health agencies Medical research institutes in Japan Government agencies of Japan Research institutes established in 2002 {{med-org-stub

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Former building

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