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Name Dr. Deborah Cohen
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Where is Dr Deborah Cohen now? Deborah Cohen is ITV News’ Science Editor, and an award-winning media personality.
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Introduction :

  • Dr. Deborah Cohen is a British Correspondent for BBC Newsnight. She focuses on health, science, and social policy and currently lives in London, England.
  • Besides being an academic journal editor with extensive international experience, Deborah is an award-winning, medically certified print, TV, and radio reporter.
  • Dr. Cohen is well-known for using a combination of journalistic techniques to conduct complex high profile health investigations. Her most-discussed works include: “Tracking down the Data on Tamiflu,” “The Truth about Sports Drinks,” and How Safe are Metal on Metal Hip Implants?”

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

  • Currently, there is no information available about Deborah’s personal life on the internet. She has no social media profiles except Twitter, on which she mostly posts only work-related material.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

  • After graduation from a local high school, Debora Cohen enrolled at Manchester University to study Medicine in 1997. She graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) degree.
  • In 2001, Deborah studied Medical Journalism at the University of Westminster. She earned her Bachelor’s degree with first-class honours in 2002.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

  • From June 2005 to October 2015, for over a decade, Dr Cohen worked with the British Medical Journal (BMJ) as an editor and medical investigator. While at BMJ, she actively contributed in both journalistic and academic fields.
  • Dr. Deborah has been working as a Freelance Broadcast Journalist since October 2015. Recently, She covered many high profile stories like ‘Inside Britain’s Fertility Business’ with BBC Panorama (November 2016), ‘Dementia: what do we know’ with BBC File on Four (February 2016), and with ‘Rivaroxaban: can we trust the evidence?’ with The BMJ (February 2016).
  • Since January 2019, Deborah has been employed as a correspondent for BBC Newsnight.
  • She also works at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), based at the University of Oxford, helping develop techniques that combine epidemiology with data-based journalism.
  • Deborah has also given seminars and lectures to medical journalism students, doctors, and medical trainees at institutions like Oxford University, University of Bordeaux and Dartmouth College.
  • Working as a writer for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and Index on Censorship, Deborah has actively covered science and health-based stories from Palestinian territories, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Ghana.
  • Dr. Cohen has appeared in, consulted for, and advised on multiple global documentaries, including one a feature film length documentary for Netflix.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

  • In 2019, Dr. Deborah was honoured with the British Journalism Award in Science and Technology. She was adjudged the Health and Life Science Journalist of the year.
  • Deborah has also contributed to volunteer organisations like ‘Doctors Without Borders’, ‘Medecins Sans Frontières’ and ‘Transparency International.’
  • On October 17, 2017, she was honoured with the 25th Health Watch Award by Health Watch president Nick Ross. The organisation recognized Deborah for her long-standing courageous reporting on multiple health issues in the face of vehement opposition.
  • Deborah has been extensively cited by multiple well-known journalists and experts affiliated with the NHS and criminal justice system.
  • A bilingual personality, Deborah has working-level fluency in the French language. She earned her Advance French Language certificate from the French Ministry of Education.
  • Being a part of device regulation panel discussions for the European Health Forum and European Parliament, Deborah has added value to various high-profile events and symposiums. Some of these mega-events were held for the European Public Health Alliance, European governments, and Transparency International.

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