I earned an MA in anthropology in 1998 with a focus on development anthropology

(a discipline within anthropology to apply anthropological perspectives in international

development). After earning my MA, I joined Japan’s Network for Women and Health, a

Japanese NGO. I was actively engaged in advocacy for sexual and reproductive health

and rights. Then, as an MSH-HANDS Iwamura Fellow, I worked for the Advance Africa

project, a USAID funded FP/HIV integration project in sub-Saharan Africa based in the US.

After the Iwamura fellowship, I spent the next four years in Afghanistan, where I worked with Afghan and international colleagues to rebuild Afghanistan’s healthcare system. In 2010, I obtained an MPH from the University of Washington, and in 2011, I joined the faculty of Nagasaki University.