Seminar on “Space and Sustainable Development: Space Technology and Research for Global Health”
2014/2/18
On 18 February 2014, on the occasion of the fifty-first session of Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of COPUOS, a seminar on “Space and Sustainable Development: Space Technology and Research for Global Health” was held at the Vienna International Centre (VIC), co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the second seminar Japan held on the occasion of COPUOS under the theme of “Space and Sustainable Development” following last year.
Following the opening remarks by Deputy Permanent Representative Mr. Hidehiko Hamada, Dr. Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, Director, Knowledge, Ethics and Research Development, WHO, Dr. Keiji Imaoka, Senior Researcher, Earth Observation Research Center (EORC), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Dr. Chiaki Mukai, Director, JAXA Center for Applied Science Medicine and Human Research (J-CASMHR), JAXA, made a presentation on how information obtained by satellite and space medicine will contribute to improving global health. There were extensive questions from audience.
Dr. Yasushi Horikawa, Special Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and COPUOS Chair, who moderated this seminar, noted in his conclusion the importance of the contribution of COPUOS toward the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the post-2015 development agenda process, expressing also the expectation that space technology and research will be further utilized in the fields such as tele-medicine, tele-epidemiology and food security.
After the seminar, there was a reception hosted by Ambassador Toshiro Ozawa.
Following the opening remarks by Deputy Permanent Representative Mr. Hidehiko Hamada, Dr. Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, Director, Knowledge, Ethics and Research Development, WHO, Dr. Keiji Imaoka, Senior Researcher, Earth Observation Research Center (EORC), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Dr. Chiaki Mukai, Director, JAXA Center for Applied Science Medicine and Human Research (J-CASMHR), JAXA, made a presentation on how information obtained by satellite and space medicine will contribute to improving global health. There were extensive questions from audience.
Dr. Yasushi Horikawa, Special Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and COPUOS Chair, who moderated this seminar, noted in his conclusion the importance of the contribution of COPUOS toward the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the post-2015 development agenda process, expressing also the expectation that space technology and research will be further utilized in the fields such as tele-medicine, tele-epidemiology and food security.
After the seminar, there was a reception hosted by Ambassador Toshiro Ozawa.