Dr. Yuka Sumi holds an MD from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, a PhD from Osaka University, Japan, and an MPH from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is a certified specialist in Acute and Critical Care Medicine. She has worked as an associate professor in the Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine and in the Faculty of Gerontology at Juntendo University. In 2016, she joined the Healthcare New Frontier Promotion Headquarters Office in Kanagawa Prefectural Government in Japan as a Global Health Senior Project Leader.
Since December 2016, she has been responsible for the WHO Integrated Care for Older People approach (ICOPE) and has developed ICOPE implementation tools. She is a secretariat of the WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy ageing (CCHA) to contribute to the development of standards and guidance on the clinical aspects of Healthy Ageing. Under CCHA, she coordinates activities such as ICOPE implementation in countries and ICOPE training for health and care workers. She has also led the development of the WHO guideline for non-surgical management of chronic primary low back pain in adults in primary and community care settings and the ICOPE handbook second edition.
