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Rintaro Mori

Rintaro Mori

Regional Adviser on Population Ageing and Sustainable Development

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Joined the Platform in 2021

Professor Mori is Regional Advisor on Population Ageing and Sustainable Development at UNFPA Asia-Pacific Office. After practicing as a senior physician in Japan, Australia, Nepal and the UK and studied epidemiology/public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine before involved in guideline development for NICE, UK. He has also actively been involved in research/aid-works in Madagascar, Bangladesh and Mongolia, as well as research in health systems at the both national and global level. He was appointed as Director of Department of Health Policy at the National Center for Child Health and Development and Professor in Health Policy for Families and Children at Kyoto University, where he pursed his research on the life-course approach to achieve sustainable social and health care systems in the context of population ageing since 2012, before taking up his current role in 2018. He is currently working on policy advice for countries in the Asia-Pacific region on the coming population trends in the region.

Website

Decade Action Areas

Age-friendly Environments

Combatting Ageism

Integrated Care

Long-term Care

Country

Multi-Country

Sector

UN Agency

Interests and Other Information

population ageing, fertility decline, demographic policy

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