Saloni Dattani

Saloni Dattani is a researcher, writer, and editor based in London who focuses on science, global health, and medical innovation. She is a co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, an advisor at Coefficient Giving on clinical trial reform, and the host of the Hard Drugs podcast. She previously served as a researcher and project lead on health at Our World in Data and holds a PhD in psychiatric genetics from the University of Hong Kong and King's College London. She is best known for her writing on how institutional, funding, and incentive bottlenecks slow medical progress, and for advocating reforms such as advance market commitments and platform trials.