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Keiji Fukuda
Japanese-American epidemiologist
The native form of this personal name is Fukuda Keiji. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Keiji Fukuda (福田 敬二, Fukuda Keiji, born 1955)[1] is a Japanese-Americanphysician and epidemiologist, specializing in influenza epidemiology.
He was an Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 2009 to 2016,[5] and the Director of the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) between 2017[6] and 2021.[7]
Early life and education
Fukuda was born in Tokyo, Japan,[8] to a physician family.[9] His parents were physicians; his father, David Minoru Fukuda, was an anesthesiologist and his mother, Michiko Fukuda (née Nakamura) was an obstetrician-gynecologist, although she did not practice in the United States.[3] The Fukudas immigrated from Japan to Vermont in 1955, and the senior Fukuda star