Megumi is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health with a Master of Science in Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences), USA. She is currently in the Ph.D. program in Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Prevention and Community Health at the George Washington School of Public Health.

After graduating from university, she worked at Accenture Strategy, where she was involved in policy and business strategy development in the healthcare and public sector. She has worked at several U.S. research institutions where she has practiced and researched behavior change theory, intervention design, and program evaluation related to health promotion.