Usha Lee McFarling is a national science correspondent for STAT, covering health disparities, issues of health equity and systemic racism within science and medicine. She previously reported for the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, and San Antonio Light and was an MIT/Knight Science Journalism Fellow. Her work on the diseased state of the world's oceans earned the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. Ms. McFarling graduated from Brown University with a degree in biology and earned a master's degree in psychology from UC Berkeley.
