Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo; Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Data Science, Yokohama City University.
Professor. Ataru Igarashi graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science in 2002 and completed the doctoral course at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2008. He began serving as Assistant Professor and later as Project Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2008. He was appointed Associate Professor of the Yokohama City University School of Medicine Unit of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in 2019, and assumed his current position in 2024. As a specialist in pharmacoeconomics, Professor Igarashi has continuously compiled data to assist decision-making from multiple perspectives. These contributions have included the development of guidelines on health economics, conducting cost-effectiveness evaluations on individual medical technologies, and establishing evaluation indices for quality of life. His published works include I Do Not Understand Medical Statistics (Tokyo Shobo, 2010); Medical Statistics: I Think I Am Starting to Get It (Tokyo Shobo, 2012); and I Do Not Understand Pharmacoeconomics (Tokyo Shobo, 2014).