Makoto is an infectious disease physician by training and a clinical epidemiologist. He joined WWARN/IDDO in 2015 as a DPhil student (2015-2019, at St Edmund Hall), under the supervision of Prof Philippe Guérin (IDDO Director) and Prof Rose McGready (SMRU, University of Oxford, Thailand).
Over the past several years, he has dedicated his work to studying the epidemiology of malaria in pregnancy, focusing particularly on the pharmacoepidemiology of antimalarials during pregnancy.
His research interests extend broadly to the epidemiology of clinical infectious diseases, with a particular focus on malaria and other tropical infectious diseases, as well as nosocomial bacterial infections and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
He earned an MD from the University of Tokyo, as well as an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health and an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a certified epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist in Japan and a fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine.