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My reporting looks at how science and health move from early ideas to real-world outcomes: how research gets funded, how discoveries move through labs and pharma companies, how evidence gets translated into policy, and how political and economic incentives shape that process. The stories below range from clinical trials and vaccine supply to global health data, drug pricing, research funding, and the pharmaceutical industry.

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

The "pharmacy of the world" needs to reinvent itself.
HIV prevention drug
The only thing standing between humanity and the end of HIV. Vox

Why the Trump administration is cutting out a country that needs it most.
PEPFAR HIV funding
What really happened after Trump slashed HIV funding Vox

The official numbers are finally here.
NIH research cuts
The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer's, mental health — and nearly everything else Vox

Revealed in one chart.
Malaria vaccine
It took 35 years to get a malaria vaccine. Why? Undark

The parasite's complex biology played a role in the delay, but experts say there was also a lack of urgency and funding.
Ozempic in India
Ozempic just got cheap enough to change the world Vox

Why the $14 drug could reshape global health.
Vaccine skepticism
America's vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data Vox

RFK Jr. wanted parents to question the science. A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened.
Health data
The world just lost its health report card. Now what? Vox

Why this obscure survey has life-or-death stakes, and what its future could look like.
Clinical trials
One weird thing that's been holding drug trials back Vox

What if researchers didn't have to start from scratch every time?
Child malnutrition
The year child malnutrition flipped, explained in one chart. Vox

The year child malnutrition flipped, in one chart.
Dengue treatment
The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. But no one wants to make it. Vox

No one wants to make it.
Lead battery pollution
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.
Cholera vaccine stockpile
The world's stockpile of cholera vaccine is empty—but relief is on the way. Science

A dramatic shortage of the oral vaccine may ease in the years ahead as more companies enter the market.
Cholera outbreak
The world is not prepared for another cholera wave. Undark

Sanitation and vaccination can prevent cholera. But recent outbreaks highlight obstacles to stopping the disease.
Drug-resistant malaria
The race to track drug-resistant malaria in Africa. Undark

Resistance to the drug artemisinin was confirmed in Africa. Without better surveillance, it is hard to track the threat.
Screwworm parasite
A flesh-eating parasite has arrived in the US. Can we stop it?Vox

Why one infected calf has America’s beef industry on edge.

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