Sachiko Kita

Sachiko Kita, Ph.D, CNW, RN, PHN, is a nationally and internationally leading scholar in family violence studies especially intimate partner violence, child abuse and family poly-victimization. She completed her Ph.D. (Doctor of Public Health) in Department of Midwifery and Women’s Health, The University of Tokyo in March 2015, and was an Assistant Professor in Department of Family Nursing at the same university from April 2015 to March 2021. After that, she was a full-time research fellowship in the Department of Health Policy, National Institute of Child Health and Development until March 2022. She has been a senior lecturer at Departmet of Family Nursing, The University of Tokyo since April 2022.
She has been actively collaborating with researchers in Japan and abroad to contribute to a violence-free society and a society in which the victims of violence can recover their health, and has been disseminating new findings to the world.
Her main research interests are as follows.

1. Research on preventing and terminating intergenerational transmission of family violence
   　　-IPV during the perinatal period and its impacts on perinatal mental health and infant abuse
   　　-Development of a family poly-victimization scale and identifying the actual situation (International collaboration research with Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
2. Research for the recovery of victims of gender-based violence (GBV)
   　　-Identifying the health of mothers and children exposed to IPV and child abuse and its
   influencing factors
   　　-Understanding the diverse recovery processes from the narratives of survivors of GBV (International collaboration research with University of Michigan and Temple University)
3. Research contributing to a child abuse-free society
   　　-Development and effectiveness of the Training program on Child Abuse Prevention for Citizens (TCAP-C) (Community-based participatory research: CBPR)

She has published her papers in authoritative journals in the areas of violence, mental health, nursing, and public health, such as Journal of Interpersonal Violence (IF: 6.14), Psychology of Violence (IF: 5.04), and Archives of Women’s Mental Health (IF: 4.34), and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IF: 4.62).
Furthermore, she is very active to disseminate her research findings to society in Japan and the world throughout being an invited speaker of the Academy of Violence and Abuse (Hong Kong, 2017), Japan Association of Forensic Nursing (Ehime, 2016), Tokyo Bar Association (Tokyo, 2017), Tokyo Women’s Plaza (Tokyo, 2019) and being an advisor of projects on child abuse prevention of Koto-ward office (Tokyo, 2021) and Tokyo Metropolitan government (Tokyo, 2022) as well as being introduced her findings in media, such as national newspapers and broadcast in Japan.