Elizabeth Cohen

She was born Elizabeth Sondra Schwartz, the daughter of Sheila Fay (née Gopen) and Charles A. "Chuck" Schwartz.{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title=Obituary: Charles A. "Chuck" Schwartz M.D. |newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=April 25, 2014 |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=170778811 |accessdate=}}{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title=Obituary: Sara Gopen (Liberman) Weintraub |newspaper=The Boston Globe|date= May 30, 2009|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=127850245 |accessdate=}} Her father was a physician. She has two sisters and a brother: Pamela Fay Cohen, Julia Molly Healy, and David Ansin Schwartz and was raised in Needham, Massachusetts.{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= What Do You Remember Most About Your First Summer Job? - Elizabeth Schwartz Cohen '87, Senior medical correspondent at CNN |website=Columbia University Today|date=November 9, 2021 |url= https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/think-tank/what-do-you-remember-most-about-your-first-summer-job |accessdate=}} She is of Jewish descent.{{Cite news|first= D.|last=Michaels |authorlink= |title= Power to the Patient! |newspaper=The Jewish Exponent|date=March 6, 2013 |url=http://jewishexponent.com/2013/03/06/power-to-the-patient/ |accessdate=|quote= It's not so much that one has to have chutzpah to talk back to one's doctor, or question him, says the Jewish broadcaster, as it is "having the bravery to speak up."}} Cohen attended Columbia College, and graduated in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in history.{{Cite news|first=John |last=Temple |authorlink= |title= Journalism takes multiple paths |newspaper=Columbia Star|date=October 15, 2010 |url=https://www.thecolumbiastar.com/articles/journalism-takes-multiple-paths/ |accessdate=}} In 1992,{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= Distinguished Alumni Awards - Past award recipients: Elizabeth Cohen '92, Senior Medical Correspondent, CNN |website=Boston University School of Public Health|date= |url= https://www.bu.edu/sph/alumni/our-alumni/distinguished-alumni-awards/ |accessdate=November 9, 2021}} she graduated with a master's degree in public health from Boston University. She has received outstanding alumna awards from both colleges.{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Cohen |url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/cohen.elizabeth.html |publisher=CNN.com |access-date=2011-05-18}}

Cohen worked at WLVI in Boston as associate producer of environmental program Green Watch. She also worked as a reporter for States News Service in Washington, DC and for The Times Union in Albany, New York. Cohen joined CNN in 1991. She focuses on health-related issues and has reported from a medical angle on major news stories including the Gulf oil spill, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina. She is currently senior medical correspondent for CNN's Health, Medical and Wellness unit.

Cohen won a Hearst Award during her time at the Times Union. She won a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and a National Headliner Award for the feature "A Lesson Before Dying" in 2006. She was honored by the Newswomen's Club of New York, the New York Association of Black Journalists for the feature "African-Americans and Bone Marrow Transplants", and the Mental Health America Media Awards in 2007 for her reporting work. She won a Gracie Award in 2008 for the feature "Where’s Molly?"

She contributed to CNN's Emmy Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the September 11 attacks.

She published a book titled The Empowered Patient in 2010.{{cite news |title=CNN's Elizabeth Cohen shares how to be 'Empowered Patient' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-08-10-Elizabethcohen10_ST_N.htm |publisher=USA Today |last=Marcus |first=Mary Brophy |date=2010-08-11 |access-date=2011-05-18}}

She is married to Israeli-born entrepreneur Tal Cohen; they have four daughters.{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= Entrepreneur Profile: Tal Cohen - Tal Cohen has lived the American dream; interesting for a man who has lived more than half his life in Israel |newspaper=Atlanta Jewish Times|date=October 31, 2012 |url=http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/entrepreneur-profile-tal-cohen/ |accessdate=}}

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• [http://www.elizabethcohen.com/index.html The Empowered Patient by Elizabeth Cohen]
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