Elizabeth Cohen
Medical Journalist
Elizabeth Cohen is a medical journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, STAT, CNN and KFF Health News. As CNN’s longtime senior medical correspondent, Cohen covered major global and national crises, including the September 11th attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, the Ebola outbreak in Liberia and the infant formula airlift in Germany. She is the author of “The Empowered Patient” and a three-time winner of the Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media. Her reporting has been recognized by the Association of Health Care Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists. This year Cohen received Research!America’s award for impact on public opinion. She is also a recipient of the distinguished alumni awards from Columbia University in New York City and Boston University.
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Featuring inspiring conversations, the closing session is not to be missed. First, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Jennifer Ashton of ABC News explore the loneliness epi...
John Fetterman was campaigning for the US Senate when he suffered a near-fatal stroke. Fortunate that a visiting physician was on duty in a nearby rural hospital, Fetterman su...
The economic impact of wide-scale disease outbreaks, like COVID-19, emphasize the mutual interests of public health and business to create healthy and vibrant communities. The...
Artificial intelligence is generating enormous excitement for its potential to predict health risks, speed diagnoses, and guide medical decision making. At the same time, the...
The Broadway musical “How to Dance in Ohio” is the true story of a group of young people with autism preparing for a formal dance. Based on a documentary of the same name, the...
The conversation about motherhood and the “power of moms” is becoming more robust and nuanced, and a spotlight is finally being shined on the needs of mothers and their famili...
Featuring three one-on-one conversations, our tenth anniversary closing session is not to be missed! We begin with comedian Iliza Shlesinger, who opens up to bestselling autho...
Declining cancer death rates, promising research, and innovative technology suggest the tide may be turning in the long war against cancer. Clinical trials using CRISPR techno...
Twenty years ago, under the administration of George W. Bush, the US government established the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). With allocations exceeding...
Few health and social welfare policy issues escape the oversight of the US Department of Health and Human Services, second in size only to the Department of Defense. Prescript...
A Conversation with Xavier Becerra, Interviewer: Kate Snow; A Conversation with Pavlo Kovtoniuk, Interviewer: Elizabeth Cohen; A Conversation with Deepika Chopra, Int...
The impact of climate change is dire: floods, drought, fire, hurricanes, deforestation, degraded water systems, agricultural devastation, and refugee crises. No one will escap...
Today, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, ending nearly 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion and sending the decision on whether to...
Living until age 100 may soon be routine, but for most people that will not be enough—we also want to remain vigorous and engaged in both body and mind. To thrive, we need to...
The statistics on gun violence are numbing—more than 45,000 firearms-related deaths in the US, far more than in any other wealthy country. Suicide is the leading cause of gun...
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, joins CNN Senior Medical Correspondent...
A conversation with Senator Bill Cassidy (Interviewer: Elizabeth Cohen) A conversation with David Brooks and Marc Freedman (Moderator: Jonathan Capehart) A conversatio...
For more than two decades, Dr. Larry Nassar was the physician for the US women’s Olympic gymnastics team – and a serial sexual abuser who chalked up hundreds of victims. Direc...
E-cigarettes are getting our children addicted to nicotine and may be dangerous to the developing brain. More young people now use e-cigs than tobacco and there is growing con...