Selected Publications

Koichiro Shiba, Richard G. Cowden, Natasha Gonzalez, Yusuf Ransome, Atsushi Nakagomi, Ying Chen, Matthew T. Lee, Tyler J. VanderWeele (2022). Associations of Online Religious Participation During the COVID-19 Lockdown with Subsequent Health and Well-being: A Longitudinal Study of the U.K. Population. . Psychologoical Medicine.

Koichiro Shiba, Richard G. Cowden, Natasha Gonzalez, Matthew T. Lee, Tim Lomas, Alden Yuanhong Lai, Tyler J. VanderWeele (2022). Global Trends of Mean and Inequality in Multidimensional Well-being From 2009 to 2019: Analysis of 1.2 Million Individuals From 162 Countries. Frontiers in Public Health.

Koichiro Shiba*, Sakurako S. Okuzono*, Eric S. Kim, Kokoro Shirai, Naoki Kondo, Takeo Fujiwara, Katsunori Kondo, Tim Lomas, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Ichiro Kawachi, Tyler J. VanderWeele (2022). Ikigai and subsequent health and wellbeing among Japanese older adults: Longitudinal outcome-wide analysis. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific.

Koichiro Shiba, Adel Daoud, Hiroyuki Hikichi, Aki Yazawa, Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi (2021). Heterogeneity in cognitive disability after a major disaster: A natural experiment study. Science Advances.

Koichiro Shiba, Jacqueline M Torres, Adel Daoud, Kosuke Inoue, Satoru Kanamori, Taishi Tsuji, Masamitsu Kamada, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi (2021). Estimating the impact of sustained social participation on depressive symptoms in older adults. Epidemiology.

Koichiro Shiba, Takuya Kawahara (2021). Using propensity scores for causal inference: pitfalls and tips. Journal of Epidemiology.

Koichiro Shiba, Takuya Kawahara, Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Naoki Kondo, Peter James, Mariana Arcaya, Ichiro Kawachi (2021). Causal Inference in Studying the Long-term Health Effects of Disasters: Challenges and Potential Solutions. American Journal of Epidemiology.