Dr Masahiko Hachiya

Dr Masahiko Hachiya is a pediatrician and Director, Division of Global Health Policy and Research, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Japan. He leads research programs in seroepidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases in Southeast Asian countries and evaluates immunization programs. He mainly worked in Bhutan, P. R. China, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, and Vietnam in the field of routine immunization, polio eradication, and supplementary immunization activities.

He is a member of the National Verification Committee (NVC) for measles elimination in Japan since 2013, and contributed the country successfully verified as measles free by WPRO in 2015. He served as a member of Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (IPAC) in WHO.

Dr Hachiya originally trained as a pediatrician in Tokyo, with additional work in remote areas in Japan.

Dr Hachiya obtained the degree of medical doctor in 1989 and PhD in 2000 from Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his Master of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States, in 2004.