Naofumi Hashimoto

Naofumi HASHIMOTO is a medical laboratory technologist and working for the division of Partnership Development, Department of Global Network and Partnership, Bureau of International Health Cooperation, National Center of Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) in Tokyo Japan.

He received his degree on medical laboratory technology from Kitasato Junior College of Hygienic Science and MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

He had experience a medical laboratory technologist at the clinical laboratories and at HIV laboratory at the National Institute of Infectious Disease (NIID) in Japan. NIID is a national reference laboratory for infectious diseases. The roles of HIV laboratory were to evaluate new test kits for HIV and Syphilis and development of new technology for In Vitro Diagnostics for HIV. He conducted the necessary evaluation and contributed to development of more sensitive HIV detection method.

In Malawi, Uganda he worked as a medical laboratory technologist at the clinical laboratories at health centers, a mission hospital and district hospitals and worked as a supervisor for quality testing at the laboratories at all provincial hospitals in Zambia with Ministry of Health Zambia. He advised solutions to the problems on the implementation of internal quality control including human factors and discrepancies on the results of CD4 counts between laboratories. In addition, currently he is implementing a small project for improving quality of laboratory testing in Cambodia.