30^th Digitally Inclusive, Healthy Ageing Communities (DIHAC) Study Cross-cultural Exchange Meeting

Digitally Inclusive, Healthy Ageing Communities (DIHAC) is a cross-cultural study primarily based on Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), Singapore, and Thailand, further expanding to India, Malaysia and Vietnam. DIHAC is expected to expand to several countries through collaboration and networking. We organize bi-monthly cross-cultural meetings to create trans-disciplinary learning opportunities for researchers, professionals, and graduate students.

The  30^th Digitally Inclusive, Healthy Ageing Communities (DIHAC) Study Cross-cultural Exchange Meeting will be held on 21^stAugust 2025.

The chairperson of the 30^th DIHAC meeting is ​Dr Donghee Han, Director, Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly; Board Member & Korean Representative, Active Aging Consortium in Asia Pacific; Board Member, Korean Gerontological Society; Head, Commission of Elderly Policy in Busan Metropolitan City Government. She had decades long experiences in digital ageing and her work spans across the globe.

We are honored to welcome two distinguished speakers. The first speaker is Mr Ok Sang-Houn, Leader of CLOVA Care Call Business, NAVER Cloud, Republic of Korea (ROK). Naver stands as ROK’s most influential web portal. One of its breakthroughs is “CLOVA Care Call”, a call reassurance service mediated by artificial intelligence (AI). In this 30th DIHAC meeting, Mr. Ok will share new updates on AI Care Call for healthy ageing.

The second speaker is Dr Shuichi Obuchi, PhD.,MS, PT , Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Japan. Dr. Obuchi is Director and Team Leader of the Research Team for Human Care. His research focuses on digital transformation for an ageing society, health services research, and social inclusion studies. We will learn the application of Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in gerontology from evidence-based research in Japan.

We are very glad to announce the upcoming 30^th DIHAC meeting. Participants are multi-disciplinary researchers, global health researchers, epidemiologists, sociologists, economists, medical doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, NGOs, NPOs, and PhD students from Japan, ROK, Singapore, Thailand, Kenya, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, South Africa, Switzerland, Ukraine, Belgium, the Netherlands, U.S.A and the UK. We would like to share this learning opportunity cross-culturally and interactively.

Date and Time:

21^st August  2025

18:00 to 19:15 JST (Tokyo, Seoul)

17:00 to 18:15 SGT (Singapore, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur)

16:00 to 17:15 ICT (Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta)

14:30to 15:30 IST (New Delhi)

11:00 to 12:15 CEST (Brussels, Geneva)

10:00 to 11:15 BST (London)

in Zoom, by invitation or by registration

Meeting Access to register

(Please register by  20^th  August 2025 if you are interested! limited seats!)

Program

Socializing (5 minutes) PI Associate Professor Myo Nyein Aung, Juntendo University, Department of Global Health Research, DIHAC study team and international participants

Presentation 1: Republic of Korea

Speaker: Mr Ok Sang-Houn, Leader of CLOVA Care Call Business, NAVER Cloud, Republic of Korea

Title – AI care call and healthy ageing in Republic of Korea

(20 minutes)

Discussion 10 minutes

Presentation 2: Japan

Speaker: Dr Shuichi Obuchi, Ph.D, MS, PT, Leader of Research Team for Human Care, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology

Title – IoT and AI use in Gerontology

(20 minutes)

Discussion and conclusion (15 minutes)

Chairperson: Dr Donghee Han

Access to DIHAC 30 Meeting reports in English, Japanese, Thai , Spanish and Vietnamese