Keio University

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

Publish: June 30, 2025
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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.

Project Members

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Project Members

Principal Investigator

Ho Namkoong

Senior Assistant ProfessorSchool of MedicinePulmonary Infectious Diseeases

Yoko Ibuka

ProfessorFaculty of EconomicsHealth Economics

Kyoko Shimamoto

Project Senior Assistant ProfessorKGRIPublic Health, Health Economics