Saloni Dattani

Founding Editor, Works in Progress

Saloni Dattani is a science writer and a researcher on health for Our World in Data, a website that makes data and research on big topics accessible to the world. She is a co-founder and editor of the digital magazine Works in Progress, which publishes essays on ideas that have improved the world and ways to advance progress further. She is also a commissioning editor for Stripe Press, where she recruits and works with new authors on long form and book publications.

She recently began writing a weekly Substack newsletter, which highlights new scientific research that has the ability to improve our lives.

Alongside these roles, she is completing her PhD in psychiatric genetics, where her research focuses on the impact of study design on the results of genetics research.

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Neuropsych

The prevalence of mental illness around the world

A series of charts shows how prevalent different mental illnesses are across the globe — but how we define them matters.

Health

What is your lifetime risk of depression?

It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.