“AMA: Saloni Dattani” by Toby Tremlett🔹, salonium

Saloni will answer the questions in this AMA between 6-8pm BST on July 8th. Leave your questions as comments, and upvote other questions you’d like to see answered.

If you’ve been around EA for a while, and you’re interested in global health, you’ve probably read Saloni Dattani before.

Saloni writes about global health at Our World In Data and is a co-founder and editor of Works in Progress magazine. She's also recently started a podcast, Hard Drugs, with Jacob Trefethen. She also (somehow) finds time to write a great blog, Scientific Discovery.

She's recently written on:

• The decline in cancer mortality, and how it's not all down to decline in smoking.
• How we calculate fertility rates, and why just calculating the total fertility rate leads us astray.

And she delivered a talk at EA Global London on the data that shapes global health.

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First published:

July 2nd, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/i2DtGATx9ZWRcKfAz/ama-saloni-dattani

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