Malaika Mahmood

Malaika Mahmood is a staff writer at Analyst News. She is a TEDx speaker and an early-career neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is actively exploring how pain and opioids are processed in the brain. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Rutgers University and has a broad range of interests encompassing science, religion, policy and the intriguing intersections between them.