APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

nishimur@stanford.edu
(650) 723-9072 (voice)
(650) 723-6530 (fax)

Research Interests
American and Japanese health care systems and policies, information technology as it relates to health data management.

Yumiko Nishimura was the associate director of the Comparative Health Care Policy Research Project at APARC from May 1997 through 2004, before which she served as the assistant director. Her specialty is U.S. and Japanese health systems and health policy. She has lectured and written extensively on these topics in both countries. Nishimura helped introduce the Japanese healthcare system to American readers in the book Japan's Health System: Efficiency and Effectiveness in Universal Care, co-edited with Daniel Okimoto and Akihiro Yoshikawa (1993). Also for Japanese readers, she published her book America Iryo no Nayami (Health Care Reform in the United States) in 1995. Nishimura has written a series of articles for several Japanese journals, including Kosei, the journal of the Ministry of Health and Welfare.