
Deborah Cohen
@deb_cohen
Journalist | LSE Visiting Senior Fellow | Escapee medic | Ex science ed @ITVNews; health and UK corr @BBCNewsnight and investigations ed @bmj_latest | Scouse
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https://www.itv.com/news/meet-the-team/deborah-cohen 16-12-2010 18:05:25
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Thanks to Leonora Merry and team Nuffield Trust for inviting me to talk about covering controversial and polarised areas of health and the use of evidence in journalism. Especially looking forward to live recording of BBC Radio 4 Moral Maze about the ethical purpose of the NHS

Thoughtful piece by Roger Mosey about where the BBC is going wrong. One point is about recruiting more working class northerners. I'm biased but I'd agree. The amount of grief I'd get for my accent when I was on BBC Newsnight was telling telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/1…


My and Margaret McCartney's critical look at Zoe for both UnHerd and The BMJ has sure had legs.... Great to see our work being cited in today's The Economist economist.com/britain/2025/0…

Formidable Health journalist Deborah Cohen did try to warn about the potential social consequences of Covid policy-especially so for the poorest families- during the worst of the Covid pandemic in addition to her Sisyphean search for accurate medical informations. There is more






This is a very welcome blog from Roy Lilley 💙 . CYP have gone under the radar in UEC But be under no doubt though this is not a newly recognised problem. Some of us have been highlighting this for years. I spoke to Deborah Cohen at ITV News in 2022 itv.com/news/2022-10-2…



Women are disproportionally targeted with medical misinformation, and put at unique risk by it. Tonight Deborah Cohen and myself will discuss some of the reasons why and how to counter it. Still tickets available if you'd like to join us online.. eventbrite.co.uk/e/countering-d…