KGRI Start-up Research: Interdisciplinary Approach to Understand the Actual Situation of Long COVID and Create Treatment Strategies

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Summary

Long COVID is not only medical, but also social, including long-term disruption of daily life, decreased labor productivity, and loss of employment opportunities, although the actual situation is not fully clear. The research group will not only conduct medical translational research using the largest long COVID cohort in Japan, which has been established since the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also utilize Keio University's interdisciplinary network to develop a large-scale socially and economically evaluable study of Long COVID. We will also use the interdisciplinary network of Keio University to construct a large cohort that can be evaluated socially and economically to clarify the actual status of long COVID.

SDGs

3. GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

4.QUALITY EDUCATION

8. DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

17. PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

Project Members

About Project Members, Researchers

Note: ◎ indicates the project leader

Name	Affiliation	Position	Field of Specialization/Research Interests
◎ Ho Namkoong	School of Medicine	Senior Assistant Professor	Pulmonary Infectious Diseeases
Yoko Ibuka	Faculty of Economics	Professor	Health Economics
Kyoko Shimamoto	KGRI	Project Senior Assistant Professor	Public Health, Health Economics
Koichi Fukunaga	School of Medicine	Professor	Respiratory medicine
Hideki Terai	School of Medicine	Senior Assistant Professor	Tumor immunology, Genetic analysis
Katsunori Masaki	School of Medicine	Instructor	Respiratory medicine
Shunichiro Konishi	School of Medicine	Instructor	Respiratory medicine