Lev Facher is a Washington Correspondent for STAT, reporting on the politics of health and life sciences. He has written extensively about the federal government's response to the opioid crisis, the pharmaceutical industry's influence on Capitol Hill, and federally funded biomedical research.
Lev earned an economics degree from the University of Michigan, where he worked as managing editor of The Michigan Daily.
You can reach him via email at lev.facher@statnews.com, or on the encrypted messaging apps WhatsApp or Signal — send an off-the-record direct message on Twitter for the number.