Ankur Paliwal is an Indian science journalist, with a special interest in global health, climate change, and inequality. Currently, he is a contributing editor at the Business Standard in India. Paliwal was a 2015 health reporting fellow with The GroundTruth Project and wrote about infectious disease surveillance. He graduated from Columbia Journalism School’s MA science writing class in 2015. Before that he was a correspondent for five years with Down To Earth magazine in New Delhi.