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Saloni Dattani

What Saloni Dattani thinks about innovation

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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. Our readingMedical innovation is at a point of divergence: the tools are improving rapidly, but the ambition to use them has fallen behind.

    ambition

    Their wordsI 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. Our readingInnovation happens as a continuous stream each year rather than as sporadic breakthroughs driven by chance.

    Their wordsPeople often describe innovation as a set of specific, sporadic breakthroughs that happen by pure chance or sheer determination, but it's really much more of a continuous stream every year, like the ones I've described here.

    ↗Medical breakthroughs in 2025scientificdiscovery.dev 1st of 3 in this piece

  5. Our readingThe pace of medical innovation can be sped up or slowed down by policy, funding and institutional choices.

    Their wordsThat stream can be sped up or slowed down by policy, funding, and institutional choices; and real progress - providing the fruits of that innovation to people who need them - takes a huge number of people and institutions working together.

    ↗Medical breakthroughs in 2025scientificdiscovery.dev 2nd of 3 in this piece