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Pratik Pawar is a writer and reporter at Future Perfect, Vox's section on making the world a better place. He covers drug development, biomedical research, science policy, global health, and broadly how money and regulation shape health innovations and their access.

Pratik's writing has been published by Science, Nature, The Atlantic, NPR, and Smithsonian Magazine. Before becoming a journalist, Pratik worked in India's pharmaceutical industry. 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 securely reached on Signal (pratik.11) or over email at pratikmpawar@gmail.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.