Global Research Team
Harvard University, Epidemiology · Japan
Sakurako S. Okuzono is a researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health affiliated with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. Her work focuses on life-course epidemiology, child adversity, well-being, and neighborhood effects, with a particular emphasis on Japanese populations. She has contributed to the Global Flourishing Study and has published longitudinal analyses examining ikigai, optimism, gratitude, and other psychosocial factors in relation to health outcomes among older Japanese adults.
Characterizing the childhood roots of adult sense of mastery across 22 countries in the global flourishing study
Scientific Reports · 2025
Mapping demographic variations in sense of mastery across the world a cross-national analysis of 22 countries in the global flourishing study
Scientific Reports · 2025
Sociodemographic Variation in Gratitude Using a Cross-National Analysis with 22 Countries
International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology · 2025 · First author
The Global Flourishing Study: Study Profile and Initial Results on Flourishing
Nature Mental Health · 2025