Indi Trehan is a physician-scientist and academic researcher based in Seattle, United States. He is a professor of paediatrics at Seattle Children's Hospital; adjunct professor of global health and epidemiology at University of Washington; investigator at UW Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children; and investigator at Seattle Children's Research Institute Center for Clinical and Translational Research. He has published in many different journals, some open, some hybrid, some closed. He has run into the various issues with trying to get funding for open publishing access. He is also an editor at multiple journals and has mentored many junior researchers in both HICs and LMICs on how to navigate open access issues.