Global Nursing Research Center Fund
Be a Changemaker in Nursing Research
Project summary
The purpose of this fund is to employ and nurture young nursing researchers, enabling them to lead as postdoctoral fellows at the Global Nursing Research Center (GNRC).
With its falling birthrate and super-aging society, Japan is in need of a paradigm shift that will move it away from ‘medical care that cures’ toward ‘medical and nursing care that supports.’ The GNRC was established in April 2017, with the purpose of promoting research into a transdisciplinary innovative nursing science that will allow nursing, which plays a central role in providing ‘care,’ to develop into a new field in the society and to foster young researchers able to lead it.
One of our missions is to develop young researchers who can lead transdisciplinary innovative nursing science. In the United States, there is a system that allows institutes such as universities to employ post-doctoral fellows using grants from the National Institutes of Health. The young researchers employed in this system can learn the basics of being Principal Investigators, PI, under their mentors. The establishment of the GNRC created a training center designed to develop young researchers in Japan. However, putting in place post-doctoral fellows yearly, which was planned as one of our key performance indicators, is currently difficult because the number of positions we can make available is limited by our current budgetary situation.
Therefore, in order to fulfill our mission, we need to acquire additional funds from external parties. This will allow us to employ exceptional young researchers as postdoctoral fellows. We sincerely request the support of individuals and organizations across society who believe in our mission to develop young researchers capable of playing a central role in Japan and the world.
Your Support of the Global Nursing Research Center Fund will be appreciated.
Project Leader
Project Leader
Noriko YAMAMOTO-MITANI
Director, Global Nursing Research Center
The University of Tokyo
