'Nagasaki University contributes to the improvement of a well-balanced society by transmitting its inheritance of the traditional culture rooted in Nagasaki, cultivating a fertile creative sense in students, and developing innovative science for world peace [and aims] to become a world-class center of “global health” education and research that contributes to human health on a global scale through interdisciplinary integration of preventive medicine, health economics and other related areas, building on our outstanding achievements in the areas of tropical medicine, infectious diseases, a