Yoshiko Niino is a midwife dedicated to improving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) throughout her career. After gaining clinical experience as a midwife, she lived in the United States for about seven years, where she gained intercultural experience and polished her English by taking a Master’s degree in Biomedical Ethics in English. She then returned to Japan and has since gained experience in administrative positions in the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and at an international health economics institution, during which she took a Ph.D. in medicine, followed by professor’s positions at undergraduate and master`s levels in nursing and midwifery. She now seeks to leverage these life experiences as a column writer in Tokyo.
