She is also currently a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy and a visiting research officer of at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) within the Cabinet Office. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Hitotsubashi University. Previously she has worked as a researcher at the Health Care Science Institute and as an assistant professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). In 2011 she was a visiting scholar at Laboratoire d’Economie et de Sociologie du Travail (LEST) in France. Her current research focuses on health insurance and medical innovation, looking, in particular, at whether health insurance enhances medical innovation and how best to measure the economic value of medical innovation.