Hajime KAMIYA  MD, MPH, PhD

Senior Researcher, Medical Officer

Division 3, Center for Field Epidemiology Intelligence, 

Research, and Professional Development 

National Institute of Infectious Diseases

Tokyo Japan

Dr. Hajime Kamiya is a native of Japan. He graduated Mie University School of Medicine in 1999 and trained as a pediatrician at St.Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo. He was board certificated in pediatrics in 2004.

His interest in immunization posted him to a research fellow at University of California San Diego (UCSD), Department of Pediatrics, with the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, Immunization Branch (SDIB). Since 2006, he became graduate student at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta GA, where he learned the fundamental of epidemiology.

After graduating from Emory University, he joined National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Infectious Disease Surveillance Center （NIID/IDSC）in Tokyo as a researcher. In 2012, Dr. Kamiya was accepted as Epidemiology Intelligence Service (EIS) officer at Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC). He was assigned to Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Disease Branch (MVPDB) and experienced outbreak investigation, evidence based policy making, the strategic planning, interventions and evaluation of the immunization program from a federal government aspect.

Dr. Kamiya returned to NIID/IDSC in July 2014 and promoted to Senior Researcher (Switched moved to his current position on April 2021). Based on his experiences in the United States, Dr. Kamiya is directing his training to be a specialist in immunization field.