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Deborah Cohen

 

Deborah Cohen investigative journalist and broadcaster and speaker on health and health policy.

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Speaker Dr Deborah Cohen offers a rare combination of medical expertise and incisive broadcast reporting. With a background as a qualified doctor, she has built a career uncovering some of the most critical and complex stories in health, science, and health policy. Deborah has a skill for making involved health and science stories clear and relevant, breaking down the technical details to inform, challenge, and drive debate. She is expert in communicating complexity to non-expert audiences as shown by invitations to participate in forums for Harvard, MIT, the LSE, and events funded by Cancer Research UK as well as a panelist at the European Parliament and for Index on Censorship.

As the former Science Editor at ITV News and UK and Health Correspondent for BBC Newsnight, Deborah played a pivotal role in helping to shape public understanding during the Covid-19 pandemic, offering independent and balanced analysis of positions both orthodox and dissenting at a time of global uncertainty. Her reporting, provided a clear, science-based counterpoint to a storm of misinformation, ensuring that evidence and expertise remained available in the public conversation.

Deborah has led investigations for BBC PanoramaChannel 4 Dispatches, ITV Tonight, and BBC’s File on Four and her work has helped to drive significant change in medical practice, regulatory policies, and public health discussions. At the British Journalism Awards of 2019 Deborah was named Health and Life Science Journalist of the Year.

Prior to her broadcasting career, Deborah founded the investigations unit at The BMJ, one of the world’s leading medical journals. There, her research led the groundwork for Netflix documentaries, global media exposés, and parliamentary inquiries. Her investigations have led to regulatory overhauls in critical, highly publicized areas including medical device safety, pharmaceutical transparency, fertility treatments, and gender dysphoria care. Those investigations have impacted health systems and policies internationally.

A natural communicator, Deborah Cohen is a superbly informed speaker or panel host, adept at making complex medical and scientific topics accessible to all. She is expert in navigating controversy in polarised debate, and in communicating in crisis scenarios. She regularly lectures academics, medical professionals, and journalists, offering insight into the intersection of media, science, and policy and has spoken recently at Dartmouth College, Oxford Museum, the Science Museum, the Nuffield Trust Health Summit, and Imperial College, London.

You can contact Deborah Cohen via a Specialist Speakers agent on our UK landline number 01455 633289 for speaking and presentation in both in-person and virtual settings.

 
 

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