Ep. 54– Kei Katsuno, MD, MPH, Senior Director at the GHIT Fund

Hi! Made in Japan Podcast year four kicks off with the smartest and the most insightful person I know in Japan. Meet my old friend Kei. He’s the Senior Director of Investment Strategy & Business Development at the GHIT Fund. The Japan-based GHIT ( Global Health Innovative Technology ) Fund is an international public-private partnership fund for global health R&D that mobilizes Japanese industry, academia, and research institutes to create new drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for malaria, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases, in collaboration with global partners. This episode was incredibly fun to make as I haven’t seen or talked to Kei since pre-Covid times. I was very grateful that he took some time off on a Saturday to share about what he and his organization does for developing countries, life adjusting in these pandemic times and how the Japanese family structure has changed. But more importantly, it gave us a peace of mind catching up and laughing together. To learn more about the GHIT fund please visit: https://www.ghitfund.org For more info on the Nakameguro Taproom and other Baird Beer taprooms, please visit: http://Bairdbeer.com/ To donate and buy drinks for the guests of my podcast: https://ko-fi.com/madeinjapanpodcast IG & FB: @madeinjapanpodcast Email: [email protected]