Usha McFarling
Usha Lee McFarling has been named national science correspondent at STAT News.
She has been the news organization’s Los Angeles correspondent since April 2016. She has been writing stories on COVID’s impact on marginalized communities, including Filipino nurses, the Cherokee Nation, and immigrants.
Her new focus this year will be a project on the obstacles to racial equity in scientific and medical institutions, government, academia, and business.
McFarling has reported for the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau. In 2007, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism for her work on the diseased state of the world’s oceans.
She is a graduate of Brown University, and also has a master’s degree from University of California, Berkeley.
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