3rd GFF Seminar | The GFF’s Impact on the Ground—Case of the Nutrition Project in Cambodia
JCIE launched the GFF Seminar series in 2020 as part of its efforts to deepen understanding of how the Japanese government, NGOs, and others can coordinate more effectively with the GFF in order to strengthen maternal and child health and expand universal health coverage in the world’s most vulnerable countries.
Tadashi Yamamoto Memorial Seminar | Japan’s Political Change and the US-Japan Alliance
The inaugural Tadashi Yamamoto Memorial Seminar, co-organized by the Council on Foreign Relations and JCIE, convened over 50 Asia experts to discuss the challenges that have kept Japanese politicians from projecting strong political leadership, their impact on foreign affairs, and the prospects for change under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
International Conference on Universal Health Coverage in the New Development Era: Toward Building Resilient and Sustainable Health Systems
Approximately 300 leaders from around the globe—political leaders, heads of international organizations, NGO leaders, scholars, and other experts in the fields of global health and development—converged in Tokyo for a major conference on the topic of universal health coverage (UHC).
FGFJ | Beijing Conference: East Asian Regional Cooperation in the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
More than 100 government, business, NGO, and philanthropic leaders gathered in Beijing, China, for a major conference on July 10-11, 2006. This conference was designed to build upon the English and Chinese publication of Fighting a Rising Tide: The Response to AIDS in East Asia, and included many of the experts who began cooperating with one another through the study that culminated in this book.
ACYPL Virtual Town Hall | From the Pandemic to the Podium: Perspectives from Japan
In the lead up to the Tokyo Olympics JCIE co-hosted a virtual town hall meeting that brought together Japanese legislators and media persons to discuss the event.
Next Steps on UHC—Moving Forward from the G20 and HLM-UHC
JCIE, in cooperation with the UN Foundation, convened a small, high-level roundtable of global health experts and policymakers on the morning after the UN High-Level Meeting on UHC to discuss what the next steps should be to turn the commitments in recent forums into concrete action, maintain momentum in advancing UHC in low- and middle-income countries, and encourage Japan and other countries to continue to lead on the UHC agenda.
Roundtable Following Up on the New Shimoda Conference
On April 7, 2011, JCIE and the US-Japan Council co-sponsored a roundtable on Capitol Hill with US Congressional members and experts on US-Japan relations. Discussions centered on how to strengthen US-Japan relations in order to meet future challenges and how to create a more robust and meaningful partnership between the two countries.
Seminar on Health and Human Security
On May 14, 2010, more than 130 UN officials, health experts, NGO leaders, and policy analysts took part in a major seminar in New York exploring human security approaches to global health.
FGFJ | Symposium: “From Okinawa to Toyako: Dealing with Communicable Diseases as Global Human Security Threats”
On May 23-24, 2008, more than 150, NGO, business, and philanthropic leaders from around the world met in Tokyo for a major JCIE/FGFJ conference to explore how the world can respond more effectively to the spread of communicable diseases in developing countries.
New Shimoda Conference
On February 22, the New Shimoda Conference convened top leaders from Japan and the United States in Tokyo to discuss how to strengthen Japan-US relations at a crucial point in our bilateral relations. Participants consisted of senior figures and promising, emerging leaders from politics, business, and the policy community.
