Recent Activities

• 5-8. Nov.2024 I participated in Infectious Disease Modelling conference 2024 held in Banglok, Thailand. It was a great honour to present our latest mpox work at Early Career Researcher session (oral). My slides and some other details are available from here.
• 16.Oct.2024. Our new preprint is now out! This study disentangled the nuanced roles of community and sexual contacts on the clade I mpox transmission dynamics in DRC and other countries.
• 28.Aug.2024. Our paper on the global landscape of mpox clade IIb is now published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
• 30.Jul.2024. Redesigned the website, including its overall layout and design elements!
• 9.Apr.2024 I am joining the team of Asst. Prof. Robbie Parks (Environmental Health Sciences) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, working on Bayesian modelling of the effects of tropical cyclones on health outcomes
• 1.Apr.2024. My appointment as a national COVID-19 taskforce member for the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has been terminated as of 1st April.
• 7.Jan.2024. Our paper published in Epidemics has become the most downloaded article, having garnered interest from many readers!
• 28.Dec.2023. A new paper (preprint) is out on medRxiv.
• 31.Oct.2023. Our paper on estimating waning vaccine effectiveness without relying on fine-scale data is published in Epidemics (first authored).
• 8.Oct.2023. Our study on global transmission dynamics of mpox is out on medRxiv. I contributed to this study as the second author.
• 4.Aug.2023. Had a research meeting in Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University (other attendees: Akira Endo, Alexis Robert, Sung-mok Jung, Fuminari Miura, Arata Hidano, Toshiaki Asakura).
• 31.Jul.2023. Participated as a teaching assistant in the short course “Introduction to Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Modelling” at the School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Japan (24/07-31/07).
• 17.Jun.2023. Our paper on mpox spread has been accepted by The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
• 9.May.2023. Participated in a research consortium meeting in Brussels, 6-9 May 2023 (other attendees: Akira Endo, Sung-mok Jung, Fuminari Miura, Miina Yanagihara, Toshiaki Asakura).
• 25.Apr.2023. I was featured in a Japanese magazine titled “Japanese Scientists in Science 2022”.
• 16.Nov.2022. A new paper (preprint) is out on medRxiv. I led this study as the first author: This is a follow-up study of our earlier work on mpox epidemiology (Endo et al. 2022. Science) that looks at why cases are now declining in many affected areas. In a nutshell, we suggested that the accumulation of infection-derived immunity in heavy-tailed sexual contact networks can explain the apparent slowdown in the growth of cases.
• 24.Sep.2022. Listed as one of the contributors to the UKHSA-JUNIPER MPX Network Modelling Seminar, where my leading research and its findings were introduced:
• 22.Sep.2022. A second-author paper is now out in Science as a first release: We suggested that the rapid growth of the current monkeypox outbreak is likely driven by a small fraction of men who have sex with men and have many sexual partners.