Mariko Inoue (Japan), PhD, is an epidemiologist and an associate professor at the School of Public Health, Teikyo University in Japan. Her research interests center on social determinants of health, with a particular focus on the health of workers in precarious employment and newly developed and traditional sole entrepreneurs. Her research for the Takemi Program is an epidemiological study of workers’ health among regular employees, non-regular employees, and gig workers, such as those working in the crowd and sharing economy. She hopes to obtain evidence of different workers’ health and determine how to connect the scientific evidence to policy development.
