Lauren Weber
Washington, D.C.
Health and Science Accountability Reporter
Education: Georgetown University, BA in English and Government, minor in Business
Lauren Weber joined The Washington Post in 2023 as an accountability reporter focused on the forces promoting scientific and medical disinformation. She previously investigated the decimated public health system and covid disparities for Kaiser Health News from St. Louis. Her work on a series called “Underfunded and Under Threat” — a collaboration between Kaiser Health News and the Associated Press that revealed the shattered state of the nation’s state and local public health systems — won the ONA University of Florida Award in Investigative Data Journalism and the AAAS Kavli Science Journali
