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Saloni Dattani

What Saloni Dattani thinks about ambition

@saloni-dattani · 16 positions · On ppll ↗

Researcher at Our World in Data with a PhD in psychiatric genetics, and founding editor of Works in Progress. Writes Scientific Discovery, a newsletter on medical research and long-run trends in health and mortality.

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  1. innovation

    I think we're at a point of divergence when it comes to medical innovation. Our tools are improving rapidly, but our ambitions to use them have fallen behind.

    ↗I gave a TED talk?!scientificdiscovery.dev

  2. 8 months earlier
  3. I think it's quite common for people to want to become more widely read and less common for people to think about how to deal with the responsibility it comes with.

    ↗Saloni's guide to data visualizationscientificdiscovery.dev 1st of 3 in this piece