東京大学 · 生化学・遺伝学・分子生物学
Muto教授の研究室は、公衆衛生と社会的行動の関係に注目し、特に感染症対策における個人の行動変容や、遺伝的差別のに関する社会的認識の変遷を、大規模なアンケート調査を基に分析しています。特に、政府の自主的協力要請に応じた市民の行動変化のタイミングや要因を、日本におけるCOVID-19対応を事例に解明しています。また、遺伝情報に基づく差別の問題に対しては、一般世帯を対象とした長期的アンケート調査を通じて、意識の変化と法的対策の必要性を探っています。
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The Japanese government instituted countermeasures against COVID-19, a pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus, in January 2020. Seeking "people's behavioral changes," in which the government called on the public to take precautionary measures or exercise self-restraint, was one of the important strategies. The purpose of this study is to investigate how and from when Japanese citizens have changed their precautionary behavior under circumstances in which the government has only requested their
Abstract The Japanese government instituted countermeasures against COVID-19, a pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus, in January 2020. Seeking “people’s behavioral changes,” in which the government called on the public to take precautionary measures or exercise self-restraint, was one of the important strategies. The purpose of this study is to investigate how and from when Japanese citizens have changed their precautionary behavior under these circumstances, where the government has only req
Genetic discrimination (GD) has not been discussed in East Asia as extensively as in Europe and North America. Influenced by UNESCO's universal declaration in 1997, the Japanese government took a stringent approach toward GD by releasing the Basic Principles on Human Genome Research in 2000. However, Japanese society has mostly been ignoring the prevention of GD for decades, and the principle of prohibiting GD was never adhered to in any of the Japanese laws. We conducted anonymous surveys among
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