Career
2025.4 – Present: Associate Professor, Department of Policy and Planning Sciences / Tsukuba Institute for Advanced Research, University of Tsukuba, Japan
2023.1 – 2025.1: Technical Officer, UHC2030 Core Team, Department of Health Financing and Economics, World Health Organization Headquarters, Switzerland
2022.2 – 2022.12: Consultant, Division of Healthy Environments and Populations, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, The Philippines
2020.4 – 2023.1: Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Affiliated with the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology), Japan
2018.10 – 2020.3: Researcher, Research Centre for Financial Gerontology, Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University, Japan
2018.4 – 2020.3: Adjunct Researcher, Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Japan
2014.4 – 2019.3: Research Assistant, Programme for Leading Graduate School, Keio University, Japan
Other academic appointments
2024.4 – Present: Visiting Researcher, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Japan
2021.4 – 2023.1: Visiting Researcher, Institute for Global Health Policy Research, National Centre for Global Health and Medicine (currently, Japan Institute for Health Security) Japan
2020.4 – Present: Visiting Researcher, Research Centre for Financial Gerontology, Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University, Japan
2017.10 – 2018.3: Visiting Researcher, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, King's College London, UK
Education
Keio University
2017.4 – 2020.3: PhD (Economics)
2016.4 – 2017.3: Master of Medical Sciences (Epidemiology & Public Health)
2014.4 – 2016.3: Master of Arts (Economics)
2010.4 – 2014.3: Bachelor of Arts (Economics)
Course completion
2025.2 – 2025.3: Social Protection for Sustainable Development, United Nations System Staff College
2024.2 – 2024.3: Advanced Course on Health Financing for UHC, World Health Organization
2023.7: The New Diplomacy of Global Health, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute
2017.3: Epidemiology and Statistics for Mental Health Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London