Pratik Pawar is a fellow for Future Perfect, Vox’s section on making the world a better place. He reports on global health, science, and biomedicine, focusing on how policies and systems shape progress and who gets to benefit.

Previously, he worked as a freelance journalist, and his work has been published by Science, Nature, Undark, the Atlantic, and others. He also held fellowships at the Open Notebook, AAAS EurekAlert!, and the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Before journalism, Pratik studied biotechnology and worked in India’s pharmaceutical industry. He will graduate from MIT with a master’s degree in science writing in fall 2025.

You can reach him securely on Signal at pratik.11 or drop him a line over email at pratik.pawar@voxmedia.com. He lurks on Twitter at @pratikmpawar.

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