Ongoing actions

This research builds on ongoing research to investigate cross-cultural differences in risks facing adolescents in a context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mail, web and social media-based surveys are both quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed to gain a better understanding of how the pandemic affects children and young people’s lives, health and well-being and family needs by employing a cross-cultural comparative perspective.

Principal Investigators:

• MORISAKI Naho (Japan), Chief Researcher, National Center for Child Health and Development
• Polly Waite (United Kingdom), Senior Clinical Research, Psychologist, University of Oxford

Project in collaboration with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) (United Kingdom)

This comparative study investigates healthcare financing policies and practices in healthcare service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. By analyzing and comparing the institutional arrangements used to fund COVID-19-related health services and sources of funding for the services in different health system contexts, this study will help inform health system policy in anticipation of future similar challenges and will contribute to the debate in countries currently undertaking healthcare financing reform for universal health coverage (UHC).

Principal Investigators:

• HONDA Ayako (Japan), Professor, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University
• Valéry Ridde (France), Research Director, Centre Population et Développement (CEPED), IRD, Université de Paris

Project in collaboration with Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) (France)