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What is JAGRE?
What is JAGRE?
Japan Association for Global Road Traffic Accident and Emergency Medical Service (JAGRE) is a consortium providing assistance on emergency medical services (EMS) and implementing research in order to improve EMS and to reduce traffic accidents in developing counties. JAGRE consists of professionals with diverse expertise such as traffic engineering, EMS and system development.
Mission
Mission
Our purpose is to contribute to reduction of traffic accident causalities in developing countries through capacity development of healthcare professionals, raising building among citizens, and system development.
Message from the Representative
Message from the Representative
Contributing to Well-being of People in the Least Developing Countries by Reducing Traffic Accident Causalities
It is something normal for people living in Japan to have an ambulance and its emergency transfer to the hospital when unexpected traffic accidents occurred. However, there are a lot of cases which people just die on the road without being taken to the hospital where an ambulance does not arrive at all even if a traffic accident occurs. This is what we experienced or heard about in Lao P.D.R. Confronting cruel and serious situations in the country, many young volunteers formed rescue teams and started their activities, coped with a lot of hardships, managed ambulance operation, and provided pre-hospital medical care with patients. Today, many groups and the total of 500 volunteers work in cooperation with the government and make a great contribution to the reduction of traffic accident causalities.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all[1]. There are 17 SDGs and 169 targets in "the 2030 Agendas for Sustainable Development" adopted by the United Nations Summit in September, 2015. In relation to traffic accident, Target 3.6 stating “halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2020” is integrated under the Goal 3 “good health and well-being” and related actions are accelerated in each country.
In Japan, the annual traffic accident death toll decreased to less than 4,000 people with the advancement and promotion of various countermeasures such as advancement of road maintenance/improvement and legislation system, the progress of the automobile technology and emergency medical service (EMS) technology, and promotion of traffic safety education. On the other hand, especially in the least developing courtiers, the number of traffic accidents and causalities are on the rise and become the social problem in the midst of booming economy and increase of vehicle use just like Japan in the past.
Given this social problem, people who have passion for contributing to wellbeing of people in the least developing countries by reducing traffic accident causalities joined together and founded Japan Association for Global RTA & EMS (JAGRE).
JAGRE consists of researchers and practitioners with diverse background and expertise such as medical science, healthcare, EMS, information engineering, and traffic engineering. We will work together and commit to research and development and assistance for advancing EMS and reduction of traffic accidents together with people of Lao P. D. R. We will be grateful for your understanding, support and assistance.
May 2020
Toshiyuki Nakamura
Representative of JAGRE
[1] Sustainable Development Goals https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
Committee Members
Committee Members
<Representative> Toshiyuki Nakamura, Designated Associate Professor, Institute of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University
<Vice representative> Takaaki Suzuki, Advanced Emergency & Critical Care Center and Vice-Chief of International Medical Center, University of Tsukuba Hospital
<Auditor> Junji Nishida, President, Japan Research Institute for Social Systems (JRISS)
<Experts> Kaori Ota, Director, Osaka Office, JRISS
Toyokazu Akiyama, Professor, Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Kyoto Sangyo University
Tsuneo Jozen, Professor, Faculty of Information Science and Arts, Osaka Electro-Communication University
Ayuki Joto, JRISS
Yoko Inui, Registered nurse, Waseda Takenoko Clinic
Hiroaki Asao, Knowledge-arch Network Co.,Ltd.
Etsuko Sone, Assistant Professor, Research Institute of Disaster management and EMS, Kokushikan University
Kozue Tabei, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University
Takashi Ishizaki, Researcher, Research Institute of Disaster management and EMS, Kokushikan University
Yusuke Takayama, Lecturer, Faculty of Medical Technology, Teikyo University
Cooperative Organizations
Cooperative Organizations
University of Tsukuba, International Medical Center, Advanced Emergency & Critical Care Center, and Laboratory of Global Public Health
JRISS
Secretariat
Secretariat
JRISS, Osaka Office
5th floor, Higobashi Ishikawa Bldg., 1-22-4, Edobori, Nishi-ku, Osaka-shi Postal code: 550-0002
Logo
Logo
The outer circle illustrates "globe" and "international support," and the thick circle inside illustrates a steering wheel. The illustrations inside of the circle indicate "safe drive," "cardiac massage," and "heart rate" and "vibration of JAGRE's activities" from the left.
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