NPO Drug Safety Research Unit Japan, Japan
Dr. Kiyoshi Kubota is a physician and a pharmacoepidemiologist. From 1991 to 1996 he worked at the Drug Safety Research Unit in England. He was Associate Professor (till 2008) and Professor (after 2008) of Department of Pharmacoepidemiology in Tokyo University from 1996 to 2014. He has been a member of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) since 1995. He worked as an Executive Committee Member of ISPE between 2015 August and 2018 August including 1 year between 2016 and 2017 when he was President of ISPE. He has been President of Japanese Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (JSPE) for 11 years from 2008 to 2019. He organized the ISPE’s 2nd Asian meeting in 2007 and the 5th Asian meeting in 2010 in Tokyo as the congress chair. He has been an associate editor of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, the official journal of the ISPE since 2010. He is currently President of NPO Drug Safety Research Unit Japan where he has been working since 2001.