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Takanori Fujita
Last updated : May 31, 2025
Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University
Part-time Lecturer, The Department of Diagnostic Imaging Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine
Visiting Lecturer, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Project Associate Professor, Information & Communications of Nagoya University
Advisor, Tech Doctor, Inc.
- Areas of Expertise
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- Medical law
- medical policy
- medical information
- medical AI
- medical data
- online medical care
Bio
Takanori Fujita graduated from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Medicine in 2006 and the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Law and Politics in 2011. After working as an endowed associate professor at Nagoya University Graduate School of Economics, and as a project lead at the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan, he joined the Tokyo Foundation in 2024. He specializes in medical law and medical policy, especially legal systems and ethics related to the handling of medical information, including medical AI and online medical care. He is also involved in activities outside of academia, including serving as a member of the Cabinet Secretariat’s expert panel on contact confirmation applications (COCOA).
Research Program
Human Resource Development to Tackle Issues in the Fields of Health, Medical Care, and Nursing through Private Sector Initiatives(-2025)
Talent development for local healthcare DX(-2025)
Health System Innovation in the Post-COVID Era(-2024)
Select Publications
- Hiroshima G7 Global Health Task Force (Keishi Abe, Sarah Krull Abe, Takanori Fujita, Yoshiaki Gu, Masahiro Hashizume, Masaki Inaba, Chieko Ikeda, Kazuaki Jindai, Naoki Kondo, Osamu Kunii, Makiko Matsuo, Hiroki Nakatani, Yoshitaka Nishino, Shuhei Nomura, Haruka Sakamoto, Hideaki Shiroyama (Chair), Tomoko Suzuki, Kayo Takuma, and Ayako Takemi)
(Comment) Promote global solidarity to advance health-system resilience: proposals for the G7 meetings in Japan The Lancet (Online First) 2023 April
- Toshiro Horigome, Kimihiro Hino, Hiroyoshi Toyoshiba, Norihisa Shindo, Kei Funaki, Yoko Eguchi, Momoko Kitazawa, Takanori Fujita, Masaru Mimura, Taishiro Kishimoto
Identifying neurocognitive disorder using vector representation of free conversation
Sci Rep 12, 12461 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16204-4
- Bito S, Hayashi Y, Fujita T, Yonemura S.
Public Attitudes Regarding Trade-offs Between the Functional Aspects of a Contact-Confirming App for COVID-19 Infection Control and the Benefits to Individuals and Public Health: Cross-sectional Survey.
JMIR Form Res. 2022 Jul 20;6(7):e37720. doi: 10.2196/37720. PMID: 35610182
- Ryosuke Yokoi, Yoko Eguchi, Takanori Fujita & Kazuya Nakayachi
Artificial Intelligence Is Trusted Less than a Doctor in Medical Treatment Decisions: Influence of Perceived Care and Value Similarity
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, Published online: 26 Dec 2020
- Sumali B, Mitsukura Y, Liang KC, Yoshimura M, Kitazawa M, Takamiya A, Fujita T, Mimura M, Kishimoto T. Speech Quality Feature Analysis for Classification of Depression and Dementia Patients.
Sensors (Basel). 2020 Jun 26;20(12):3599. doi: 10.3390/s20123599.
- Arisa Ema, Katsue Nagakura, and Takanori Fujita. Proposal for Type Classification for Building Trust in Medical Artificial Intelligence System. Proceedings of the 3rd AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society (AIES), 2020, NY, USA, doi: 10.1145/3375627.3375846.
- Takanori Fujita, Hiroaki Higashitsuji, Hisako Higashitsuji, Yu Liu, Katsuhiko Itoh, Toshiharu Sakurai,Takahiro Kojima, Shuya Kandori, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Motoi Fukumoto, Manabu Fukumoto, Koji Shibasaki, and Jun Fujita. TRPV4-dependent induction of a novel mammalian cold-inducible protein SRSF5 as well as CIRP and RBM3. Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 2295 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41598-017-02473-x.
- World Economic Forum White Paper, Good Data: Sharing Data and Fostering Public Trust and Willingness, April 30, 2021.
- World Economic Forum White Paper, Resetting Data Governance: Authorized Public Purpose Access and Society Criteria for Implementation of APPA Principles, April 23, 2021.
- World Economic Forum White Paper, APPA – Authorized Public Purpose Access: Building Trust into Data Flows for Well-being and Innovation, January 17, 2020.