Pratik Pawar
Selected writing
Reporting on science, health, and public policy, alongside profiles, practical guides, and editorial work.
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The breakthrough changing how Americans donate organs
Vox
Donation after circulatory death has rapidly expanded the supply of transplant organs in the US, raising looming questions about ethics and patient safety.
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The world just lost its health report card. Now what?
Vox
For decades, DHS surveys helped countries track disease, hunger, and maternal deaths. Their shutdown makes it harder to understand the world.
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It took 35 years to get a malaria vaccine. Why?
Undark
The parasite’s biology slowed the science, but a chronic shortage of money and urgency stretched the timeline into decades.
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Want to help save the most lives possible? Here’s where to give money.
Vox
Where can your dollar do the most good? I updated and edited this global health giving guide originally written by Dylan Matthews and Jess Craig.
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What really happened after Trump slashed HIV funding
Vox
The official PEPFAR numbers are finally here.
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India’s drug industry saved the world once. Can it do it again?
Vox
India’s called the pharmacy of the world. How did that come to be, and where does it go from here?
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One weird thing that’s been holding drug trials back
Vox
What if drug trials didn’t have to start from scratch?
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The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, mental health — and nearly everything else
Vox
Revealed in one chart.
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Lead batteries are poisoning millions of children. Here are 3 proven ways to stop it.
Vox
Informal recycling is deadly — and relatively simple to fix.
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The future of global health is at stake. These 7 pioneers could revolutionize it.
Vox
I profiled innovators developing better vaccines, expanding access to them, and using genetics to fight a flesh-eating parasite.
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Writing Opinion Pieces as a Journalist
The Open Notebook
A reported guide on writing sharp, argumentative opinion pieces, particularly as a journalist.
