Selected writing

Pratik's reporting covers global health, drug development, science policy, and AI in medicine. His recent work includes the politicization of US foreign aid, the gutting of American research funding, India's role as the world's pharmacy, and the real-world impact of vaccine skepticism now showing up in health data.

India's drug industry saved the world once. Can it do it again?

Vox

The only thing standing between humanity and the end of HIV.

Vox

The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer's, mental health — and nearly everything else

Vox

It took 35 years to get a malaria vaccine. Why?

Undark

America's vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data

Vox

The world just lost its health report card. Now what?

Vox

One weird thing that's been holding drug trials back

Vox

The year child malnutrition flipped, explained in one chart.

Vox

The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. But no one wants to make it.

Vox

Lead batteries are poisoning millions of children. Here are 3 proven ways to stop it.

Vox

The world's stockpile of cholera vaccine is empty—but relief is on the way.

Science

The world is not prepared for another cholera wave.

Undark

The race to track drug-resistant malaria in Africa.

Undark

A flesh-eating parasite is at our borders. What happens if it spreads?

Vox