Rupsa Chakraborty is an award-winning health journalist from India with over a decade of experience reporting on public health, rare diseases, and health inequities. She received the NPF Rare Disease Reporting Fellowship in 2023 and has also been a Dart Center Early Childhood Reporting Fellow and a Chevening South Asia Journalism Programme Fellow. A recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award—India’s highest journalism honour. Rupsa is currently pursuing an MSc in Global Health Policy at the prestigious London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), specialising in quantitative and qualitative health economics in low- and middle-income countries, as a Commonwealth Shared Scholar.

Chakraborty briefed National Press Foundation fellows in November 2025: How a Journalist Revealed Failures in India’s Rare Disease Plan. Check out the Rare Disease Reporting Guide.