reporter
The Washington Post
Washington, DC
Lena H. Sun is a national reporter for The Washington Post covering health, with a special focus on public health and infectious disease. A longtime reporter at The Post, she has covered a variety of beats, including the Metro transit system, immigration and education, and served as the Post's Beijing bureau chiefs.
On the health beat, she has covered the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the Zika epidemic, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, many measles outbreaks, and the anti-vaccine movement. She was part of the national reporting team that won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for coverage of the war on terrorism.
She graduated from Cornell University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
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Thursday, October 3
2:10 PM – 2:35 PM