The Multicultural Health Forum is convened once or twice each year, with each meeting centred on one or more themes related to clinical practice, public and global health, and medical anthropology.
Its aim is to provide a space in which specialists from these fields may exchange perspectives and deepen interdisciplinary understanding. Participation is open to non-members.
◆◆◆ Upcoming Forums ◆◆◆
17th Multicultural Health Forum
Details to be confirmed
Date: Spring 2026
◆◆◆ Past Forums ◆◆◆
16th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Friday 19 December 2025, 19:30–22:00
Venue: Online (on-demand streaming available for members only)
Theme: Social Prescribing in Japan: A Strategic Discussion from the Perspectives of Clinical Care, Public Health, and Medical Anthropology
15th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Sunday 6 July 2025, 17:30–19:30
Venue: Online (on-demand streaming available for members only)
Theme: Disaster Medicine and Disaster Sociology: What We Can Learn Now to Prepare for the Next Disaster
14th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Sunday 15 December 2024, 18:00–20:00
Venue: Online (On-demand streaming available for members only)
Theme: Planetary Health and the Future of Medical Care: What Forms of Sustainable Healthcare Are Emerging in an Uncertain World?
13th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Sunday 9 December 2023, 15:00–18:00
Venue: Tokyo / Online (On-demand streaming available for members only)
Theme: Music Therapy as a Sustainable Social Resource: From Sociological Research to Clinical Practice Worldwide
12th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Sunday 9 July 2023, 17:00–19:30
Venue: Yakushima, Kagoshima / Online
Theme: The Anthropology of End-of-Life Care: Living Individual and Particular Lives
11th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Saturday 12 November 2022, 18:00–20:00
Venue: Online (on-demand streaming available for members only)
Theme: Who Will Welcome the Baby? Contemporary Issues of Ownership and Responsibility in Childbirth in Africa and Japan
10th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Saturday 8 January 2022, 13:30–16:30
Venue: Tokyo / Nagasaki / Online (on-demand streaming available for members only)
Theme: Considering Culturally Informed Medical Care in Sub-Saharan Africa
9th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Thursday 20 May 2021, 18:30–20:00
Venue: Online
Theme: The Situation of the Maasai in Nairobi, Kenya, during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Pre-event for the 25th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Travel Medicine)
8th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Saturday 19 September 2020, 15:30-17:30
Venue: Online
Theme: COVID-19 and Reproductive Health
7th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Saturday 5 October 2019, 13:00–17:00
Venue: Juntendo University, Tokyo
Theme: Medical Care and Support — and Beyond
6th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Saturday 22 June 2019, 13:00–18:00
Venue: Nagasaki University, Nagasaki
Theme: Medical Care as Seen by Medical Students
5th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Saturday 20 October 2018, 13:00–17:00
Venue: Juntendo University, Tokyo
Theme: ‘Dropout’ Patients and Medical Providers
4th Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Saturday 19 May 2018, 13:00–18:00
Venue: Kyoto University, Kyoto
Theme: Ageing
(English and Japanese sessions)
3rd Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Saturday 25 November 2017, 13:30–15:30
Venue: Tokyo University, Tokyo
Theme: Diversity in Illness and Well-being
(Symposium at Global Health Joint Conference 2017)
2nd Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Saturday 22 April 2017, 13:00–18:00
Venue: Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto University, Kyoto
Theme: The Future of Environment and Health, and the Future of Culture and Care
1st Multicultural Health Forum
Date: Saturday 22 October 2016, 13:00–17:00
Venue: Juntendo University, Tokyo
Theme: The Crossroads of Medicine and Culture: Understanding, Informing, and Beyond