The domestic part was a 12-day training carried out at Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University and Faculty of Medicine, Chiba University. GSS graduate students and graduate students/ young scientists invited from Southeast Asian countries joined as observers to the Joint Cholera Panel Meeting of US – Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program held at Chiba University. They exchanged their opinions on the poster presentation with an GSS international adviser, Dr. Robert Hall of US NIH.
The Leading University or the Leading Program aims at training graduate students during their Ph.D. program so that they become world leaders in academic and/or the business arena after graduation. Inter-graduate School Program for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Societies (GSS) is one of the Leading University programs of Kyoto University and is based on the following idea. The program selects about 20 talented, hard-working graduate students per year from applicants who are in their first year of Ph.D. studies in different study fields, and provides, in addition to the major education in their original field, an interdisciplinary education so that they become versed in multiple disciplinary areas and can handle complicated global issues (such as disasters, environmental changes, infectious diseases, food crisis, etc.) Nine graduate schools and three research institutes joined GSS in academic year 2012. Four faculty members (Profs. Kono, Nishibuchi, and Matsubayashi and Assoc. Prof. Kozan) of Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), for example, contributed to GSS by serving as program professors, lecturers, and/or tutors of the GSS graduate students; or by giving seminars and/or field studies.
Prof. Nishibuchi gave a field training course on food safety and infectious diseases where he and his assistants guided the GSS graduate students. The course consisted of two parts, a domestic (see photo above) and an overseas part (see photo below).
![The overseas training was a 16 day-long training performed at food safety- or infectious disease-related institutes in Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, and China. In Dhaka, Bangladesh. The visitors from Kyoto University and the officials of International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) arrived at ICDDR, B after their visit to the cholera vaccine trail sites in the slam. The participants from Kyoto University are indicated by their initials in the photograph. Explained below are their names followed by their initials (CSEAS stuff only) or their initials only (graduate students originally from Graduate School of Medicine) and their functions: Prof. Mitsuaki Nishibuchi [MN] was the tutor assisted by a project-specific Associate Professor, Yoshitsugu Nakaguchi [YN], and a graduate student KM; GSS graduate students registered for this training course include OR, AW, and YH.](/www/2016/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Nishibuchi-2.png)
The overseas training was a 16 day-long training performed at food safety- or infectious disease-related institutes in Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, China and Dhaka, Bangladesh. The visitors from Kyoto University and the officials of International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) arrived at ICDDR, B after their visit to the cholera vaccine trail sites in the slum areas. The participants from Kyoto University are indicated by their initials in the photograph. Explained below are their names followed by their initials (CSEAS staff only) or their initials only (graduate students originally from Graduate School of Medicine) and their functions: Prof. Mitsuaki Nishibuchi [MN] was the tutor assisted by a project-specific Associate Professor, Yoshitsugu Nakaguchi [YN], and a graduate student KM; GSS graduate students registered for this training course include OR, AW, and YH.
