Elizabeth Cohen

Elizabeth Cohen is an American television news journalist at CNN, where she is senior medical correspondent in the network's Health, Medical and Wellness unit. Born Elizabeth Sondra Schwartz and raised in Needham, Massachusetts, she took a history degree at Columbia College in 1987 and a master's degree in public health at Boston University in 1992. Before CNN she was associate producer of the environmental programme Green Watch at WLVI in Boston and a reporter for States News Service in Washington and for The Times Union in Albany, New York, where she won a Hearst Award. She joined CNN in 1991 and has reported from a medical angle on major stories including Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the Gulf oil spill. Her honours include a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, a National Headliner Award for the feature A Lesson Before Dying in 2006 and a Gracie Award in 2008, and she contributed to CNN's Emmy Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the September 11 attacks. She published the book The Empowered Patient in 2010.