Meet Mitsuru Mukaigawara | NDISC Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow

Mitsuru Mukaigawara, MD, MPP, is a PhD candidate in Government and an AM candidate in Statistics at Harvard University. He studies international relations, political methodology, and political psychology, with a focus on the effects of disease epidemics and health inequities on intrastate and interstate warfare and the effective use of micro-level, spatiotemporal data in causal inference.
Prior to graduate school, Mukaigawara worked globally both as an infectious disease physician and a policy analyst in settings ranging from a remote island in southern Japan to the World Health Organization headquarters.
As a physician and social scientist, he has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, such as the American Journal of Political Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Nature Medicine, on issues relating to clinical medicine, global health, and international relations.