Lenny Bernstein takes on new position on the Health and Science group

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Announcement from National Editor Matea Gold, Deputy National Editor Philip Rucker and Health and Science Editor Stephen Smith:

We are thrilled to announce that Lenny Bernstein is taking over a brand new position on the Health and Science group exploring how the chase for revenue in drugs undermines affected person care.

As a part of this line of protection, Lenny will cowl how largely hidden monetary incentives and conflicts of curiosity distort the apply of drugs and assist feed this nation’s unsustainable well being prices. This beat builds on work that Lenny has lengthy mined as a medical reporter, exploring chronic problems in the organ transplant industry and the way simple cash led drug companies and doctors to ignore their responsibility to police misuse of prescription opioids. His work with a group of Post and “60 Minutes” reporters on efforts by drug distributors and their allies in Congress to undermine the DEA’s efforts to cease the diversion of prescription opioids to the black market received Polk, Emmy, Peabody and different awards.

Lenny will sort out each quick and longer-term enterprise and information in regards to the medical-industrial complicated, demonstrating the identical tenacity he confirmed when venturing inside a Brooklyn hospital early in the coronavirus pandemic to chronicle the tales of overwhelmed medical staff and going to Liberia in 2014 to cover Ebola, probably the most ferocious pathogens recognized to humankind. In 2020, Lenny received the paper’s Ben Bradlee Award for Courage in Journalism, together with videographer Jon Gerberg, for his or her braveness in taking readers inside the recent zone, exhibiting the devastating toll exacted by covid-19 and at all times doing so with an abiding sense of humanity.

Lenny has been at The Post since 2000 as each a reporter and editor on National, Metro and Sports. He edited terrorism and civil liberties tales through the Sept. 11 assaults and their aftermath, a part of a group that received a Pulitzer Prize for that protection. He began The Post’s “To Your Health” weblog. His freelance “MisFits” column in Local Living centered on making an attempt to remain in form.

Before coming to The Post, he labored on the Los Angeles Times and the Hartford Courant.

Please be a part of us in congratulating Lenny.

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