Mitsuru Mukaigawara is a Ph.D Student in Government at Harvard University. He studies international relations and political methodology, with a focus on an interaction between disease epidemics and international security. He is affiliated with the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. 

Prior to graduate school, he worked as an infectious disease doctor and a policy researcher. Mitsuru holds a M.D. from Tokyo Medical and Dental University and an M.P.P. from Harvard Kennedy School.