Akira Tamagawa

Policy Administrator of Health and Hygiene Promotion,
Social Health and Welfare Department,
Fukushima Prefectural Government

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Joined Fukushima Prefectural Government in 1994. He was involved in regional development, prefectural hospital management, policy evaluation, and comprehensive planning. In 2010, he was transferred to Namie Town Hall. While involved in administrative and fiscal reforms and collaborative town planning, the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear disaster struck in March 2011. Under then Mayor Tamotsu Baba, he was in charge of dealing with the evacuation of the entire town, formulating a reconstruction vision and plan for Namie Town, and negotiating with the government.

In 2013, he was assigned to the Finance Division of the Fukushima Prefectural Government, and in 2015, he took charge of the Director General's Office at the General Affairs Division and Corporate Management Office of the Fukushima Medical University Secretariat (President Seiichi Takenoshita and former President Shinichi Kikuchi). Involved in the establishment of Fukushima Children's and Women's Medical Center, support for the establishment of Futaba Medical Center, and formulation of the vision for the School of Nursing, etc.

In 2018, worked in the General Affairs Division of the Fukushima Prefectural General Affairs Department. In 2020, he became Director of the Medical Workforce Unit and Director of Local Medical Care Division. He was in charge of securing local medical care (including evacuation areas) and coordinating the securing of the Covid-19 medical care system in the prefecture as the head of the Medical Countermeasures Team of the Secretariat of Novel Coronavirus Response Headquarters. He was also in charge of coordinating the securing of the Covid-19 medical care system in Fukushima Prefecture as the head of the Medical Countermeasures Team of Novel Coronavirus Response Headquarters.

He has been in his current position since April 2023. He is in charge of establishing the health and medical systems in Fukushima prefecture, as well as the response to the Covid-19. Completed the Graduate School of Management and Policy Sciences, University of Tsukuba.