Elizabeth Cohen Biography
Elizabeth Cohen is a senior medical correspondent for CNN’s Health, Medical, and Wellness unit, where she covers breaking medical news and consumer health issues for CNN and CNN.com. She is the senior medical correspondent for the channel and appears on a variety of shows.
How old is Elizabeth Cohen? – Age
She has not revealed her date of birth making it difficult to know her age. Her real name is Elizabeth Sondra Schwartz.
Elizabeth Cohen Family
She was born to Sheila Fay (née Gopen) and Charles A. “Chuck” Schwartz. Her father worked as a doctor. She was raised in Needham, Massachusetts, with two sisters and a brother: Pamela Fay Cohen, Julia Molly Healy, and David Ansin Schwartz. She is descended from a Jewish family. Cohen received his bachelor’s degree in history from Columbia College in 1987. She earned a master’s degree in public health from Boston University in 1992. Both colleges have honored her with outstanding alumna awards.
Elizabeth Cohen Husband
She is married to Tal Cohen, an Israeli entrepreneur, and they have four daughters together.
Elizabeth Cohen Net Worth
Elizabeth has an estimated Net Worth of $1 million.
Elizabeth Cohen Education
Cohen received his bachelor’s degree in history from Columbia College in 1987. She earned a master’s degree in public health from Boston University in 1992. Both colleges have honored her with outstanding alumna awards.
Elizabeth Cohen Book
In August 2010, she published 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 Career
“Escape from the Mayo Clinic,” a three-part series about a family forced to remove their teenage daughter from the renowned clinic after doctors refused to discharge or transfer her, is one of Cohen’s recent investigative pieces. 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 required. As a result of the report, lawmakers have requested an investigation.
Cohen was the first to report on Bayer paying doctors millions of dollars to promote Essure, a dubious and potentially dangerous birth control device, as well as the closure of a Florida nursing home after surveillance footage showed 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 devastating Haitian earthquake in January. Cohen’s reporting included 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 workers. Cohen reported from a makeshift hospital in Haiti, providing details on injury triage, the challenges of transporting critical patients to the United States, and the lack of medical infrastructure and resources.
Cohen contributed to CNN’s Peabody and EMMY® Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in 2005 by reporting on airlifts of premature babies from flooded neonatal intensive care units and reports on displaced 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 sensitivity and professionalism on the rescue and recovery operations at Ground Zero and the search for missing people in lower Manhattan.
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 honored 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 feature about a teen’s battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Where’s Molly?, a feature on a man’s search for his sister nearly 50 years after she was placed in a residential mental health institution, earned Cohen a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television in 2008.
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 won a Hearst Award, before joining CNN in 1991.