AHCJ Board Member & Director of the MIT Knight Science Journalism Program

Usha Lee McFarling is a science journalist who has reported for STAT, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, and the San Antonio Light. Her work has received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism, Polk Award, Victor Cohn prize, Edward R. Murrow award and the Bernard Lo, MD award in bioethics, among others. She currently serves on the board of the Association of Health Care Journalists and is publisher of Undark. Usha graduated from Brown University with a degree in biology and earned a master’s degree at UC Berkeley.