Disha Shetty

Disha Shetty is an award-winning science journalist based in Pune. She writes on public health, climate change, women and development issues.

Johnson & Johnson’s dark history in India and the United States

Two new books look at how Johnson & Johnson for decades put profits ahead of patients – including with contaminated baby power and faulty hip implants – and expose the failures of pharmaceutical regulation in India and the United States

By Disha Shetty

/ 19 Oct 2025

A hand holds a bottle of Johnson’s baby powder in the foreground, with several other Johnson’s baby care products blurred in

Bangladesh’s murky games to get Saima Wazed to the WHO

Sheikh Hasina’s push to make her daughter the regional director of the WHO South-East Asia Region bodes ill for Southasia

By Disha Shetty

/ 27 Oct 2023

Bangladesh’s murky games to get Saima Wazed to the WHO