Rachel Roubein
Washington, D.C.
National health-care reporter covering the Food and Drug Administration
Education: University of Maryland, BA in journalism
Rachel Roubein is a national health-care reporter for The Washington Post covering the FDA, an agency charged with making decisions touching the daily lives of every American. She previously authored The Health 202, a daily morning newsletter from The Post bringing readers inside everything from the health policy battles dominating Capitol Hill to the abortion battles of post-Roe America. She joined The Post in 2021 after covering health care at Politico, with a focus on Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare. Roubein first started writing about health care at the Carroll County Times, a local newsp
