Hana Yoshida

Physician and Software Engineer

Splits time between clinical informatics and production TypeScript. Writes practical tutorials and health-policy pieces.

Publications

ArticleScience & Medicine

What Antibiotics Taught Us About Incentives

Antibiotic resistance is usually told as a biology story, but its persistence is an economics story. A new antibiotic is most valuable to society when it is used least, which destroys the revenue model that funds drug development. This article traces how that incentive inversion emptied the antibiotic pipeline and evaluates the subscription-style reforms now being trialled.

Hana Yoshida and Daniel Okafor · Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read

TutorialSoftware Engineering

Type-Driven Refactoring in Practice

Large refactors fail when they depend on human attention across hundreds of call sites. This tutorial demonstrates a workflow that turns the TypeScript compiler into the driver: make the desired end state impossible to misuse, let the type errors enumerate the work, and land the change in mechanical, reviewable steps.

Hana Yoshida · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read