Hiroaki Funahashi
Associate Professor
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Hiroaki Funahashi is an Associate Professor at Chukyo University in Japan. His research focuses on the intersection of sport, social issues, and public health, examining topics such as athlete advocacy, public trust in sport institutions, and the impact of major sports events like the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Recent works include studies on the effects of athlete racial advocacy and the implications of mass gatherings on public health, particularly concerning respiratory infections.
Articles (7)
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2025
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2024
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2024
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2023
Using weekly-level influenza case data from all 47 prefectures in Japan alongside data from Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) league from 1999 to 2018, we examine the effect of hosting games on local influenza transmission. The results highlight that during the flu season, for every NPB game held at its home ballpark, there is an average increase of 0.18 cases per sentinel medical institution (SMI) between that week and the following week. The effects are robust to different specifications and placebo tests. This translates to about a 0.1% increase in the number of cases during the overlap of NPB and flu seasons.
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2022
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2022
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2022
Collaborators (3)
Jinming Zheng
Assistant Professor
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Nicholas Masafumi Watanabe
University of South Carolina
Keita Kinoshita
Assistant Professor (Tenure-track)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
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