Pratik Pawar is a journalist at Vox covering health and science. His beat is the gap between what science can do and what actually happens: why a promising drug sits on a shelf, why funding gets cut for research that works, why a breakthrough in one country doesn't exist in another. His reporting traces the money, the politics, and the regulatory decisions that shape those outcomes.
Pratik's writing has been published by Science, Nature, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, and Smithsonian Magazine. Before becoming a journalist, Pratik worked in India's pharmaceutical industry, an experience that shapes how he reports on drug development, regulation, and access. He holds a master's in science writing from MIT and has held fellowships at The Open Notebook, AAAS, and the Indian Academy of Sciences.
Pratik is based in Brooklyn, New York and can be reached on Signal (pratik.11) or over email at pratik.pawar@voxmedia.com. You can also find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.