Kosuke Inoue graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 2013. After completing clinical training as a physician (endocrinologist), he obtained a PhD in epidemiology from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in 2021. He then joined the Department of Social Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University as an assistant professor in April 2021, and served as an associate professor at the Hakubi Center, Kyoto University, from April 2023 to July 2025. From July 2024 to June 2025, he was a visiting researcher at Harvard University. In August 2025, he was promoted to full professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University. He serves as an associate editor for International Journal of Epidemiology and European Journal of Epidemiology, leading international journals in the field of epidemiology. His primary research focuses on elucidating causal mechanisms in clinical medicine using causal inference methods and evaluating heterogeneity in these mechanisms attributable to social contextual factors. He has received multiple honors, including the young scientist award from the ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology (MEXT), the encouragement award from the Japan epidemiological association, the young investigator award from the Japan endocrine society, and the medical research encouragement prize from the Japan medical association, and was named an MIT Technology Review innovator under 35 in Japan.