Elizabeth Cohen Bio, Wiki
Elizabeth Cohen is an American journalist who serves at CNN as the senior medical correspondent for CNN’s Health, Medical and Wellness unit, reporting breaking medical news and health consumer reporting on CNN and CNN.com. Cohen studied history at Columbia College and finished with a bachelor’s degree. She moved on to Boston University to pursue a master’s degree in public health. Both colleges have honored her with exceptional alumna awards.
Elizabeth Cohen Age
She was born Elizabeth Sondra Schwartz. However, being a secretive person, Cohen as not disclosed details of her age or birthday to the public yet. We shall be sure to update you once this information is available to us.
Elizabeth Cohen Height
Elizabeth boasts of a height of 1.7 meters.
Elizabeth Cohen Family
She was born Elizabeth Sondra Schwartz, to a Jewish couple; Sheila Fay and Charles A. “Chuck” Schwartz. Her parents were both doctors. Pamela Fay Cohen, Julia Molly Healy, and David Ansin Schwartz are her two sisters and brother.
Elizabeth Cohen Husband
She is happily married to Israeli-born entrepreneur Tal Cohen and together they have four daughters.
Elizabeth Cohen Career
Elizabeth was an associate producer of Green Watch, an environmental television program on WLVI in Boston, a reporter for States News Service in Washington, D.C., and a reporter for The Times Union newspaper in Albany, N.Y., where she earned a Hearst Award, before joining CNN in 1991.
Cohen has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Alumna Award from Columbia College in New York City, where she got a bachelor’s degree in history, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University, where she earned a master’s degree in public health.
Elizabeth Cohen CNN
Cohen joined CNN in 1991. “Escape from the Mayo Clinic,” a three-part story about a family forced to remove their teenage daughter from the famed clinic after doctors refused to dismiss or transfer her, is one of Cohen’s latest investigative works. In 2017, Cohen revealed that the Florida Department of Health had removed 13,000 severely ill children from the state’s Children’s Medical Services program and transferred them to other Medicaid plans that did not provide them with the specialized care they need. As a result of the revelation, MPs have requested an investigation.
Cohen was the first to report on Bayer bribing doctors millions of dollars to promote Essure, a controversial and potentially dangerous birth control product, as well as the closure of a Florida nursing home following surveillance footage showing an 86-year-old resident being beaten.
Cohen has covered several health crises across the US, including the acute flaccid myelitis outbreak affecting children in 2018, the record-breaking flu outbreak from 2017-2018, the current measles outbreak, the anti-vaccination movement, and the deaths of children at the border, in addition to her investigative pieces. Cohen was honored by the Alliance of Women in Media with a Gracie award for her coverage of the Liberian Ebola outbreak in 2014.
In 2010, Cohen gave viewers firsthand accounts of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the terrible Haitian earthquake in January. Cohen’s research includes a whistleblower interview with the wife of a fisherman who was one of the first to speak out about the health concerns of fishermen now working for BP as clean-up employees. Cohen reported from a temporary hospital in Haiti, providing details on injury triage, the challenges of getting important patients to the United States, and the absence of medical infrastructure and supplies.
Cohen contributed to CNN’s Peabody and EMMY® Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in 2005 by reporting on airlifts of premature newborns from flooded neonatal critical care units and reports on relocated cancer patients in desperate need of treatment. She was a part of CNN’s EMMY® Award-winning coverage of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, reporting with empathy and expertise on the rescue and recovery operations at Ground Zero and the hunt for missing individuals in lower Manhattan.
Elizabeth Cohen Book
In August 2010, she wrote THE EMPOWERED PATIENT: How to Get the Right Diagnosis, Buy the Cheapest Drugs, Beat Your Insurance Company, and Get the Best Medical Care Every Time.
Elizabeth Cohen Awards
In 2006, Cohen was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists with a Sigma Delta Chi Award and a National Headliner Award for “A Lesson Before Dying,” a feature on a Georgia man’s medical decisions at the end of his life. The Newswomen’s Club of New York and the New York Association of Black Journalists awarded Cohen in 2007 for the story African-Americans and Bone Marrow Transplants. In 2007, she received a Mental Health America Media Award for Perfection Obsession, a story about a teen’s fight with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Where’s Molly?, a feature on a man’s search for his sister over 50 years after she was committed in a residential mental health institution, earned Cohen a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television in 2008.
Cohen has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Alumna Award from Columbia College in New York City, where she got a bachelor’s degree in history, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University, where she earned a master’s degree in public health.
Elizabeth Cohen Salary
Cohen earns an annual salary ranging between $100,000 – $ 300,000.
Elizabeth Cohen Net Worth
Cohen has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million which she has earned through being a journalist.
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