pratik

Pratik Pawar is a journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He reports on biomedical research, drug and vaccine development, disease outbreaks, and how science and policy shape health.

Most recently, he was a reporter at Vox. His writing has also appeared in Science, Nature, The Atlantic, NPR, and Smithsonian Magazine. Before becoming a journalist, he worked in India’s pharmaceutical industry. He holds a master’s degree in science writing from MIT and has held fellowships with The Open Notebook, AAAS, and the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Pratik can be reached securely on Signal at pratik.11 or by email at pratikmpawar@gmail.com. You can also find him on Substack, Twitter, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.