As a national advisor with a focus on state health transformation and use of data and technology to improve care, Dr. Cohen is an essential resource for clients navigating care delivery and payment innovations, integration of data systems and artificial intelligence, changes affecting Medicare and Medicaid, and those looking for guidance on public health strategy and communications.
WFAE's Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins interviews Dr. Mandy Cohen to discuss her tenure at the CDC, the concerns she has about the direction the organization is headed, and the future of public health. November 2, 2025
The Governors Public Health Alliance will support Governors and their states in coordinating and collaborating to protect the public’s health by facilitating data sharing and communication about health threat detection, emergency preparedness and response, public health guidance and policy, and deployment of experts. Dr. Mandy Cohen is a public health advisor.
The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Public Health hosted a conversation with Dr. Mandy Cohen MD ’05, MPH, on Sept. 4, 2025
The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security held a broadcast discussion with Dr. Mandy Cohen, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. Since the start of her CDC tenure in July 2023, Dr. Cohen has pursued several reforms intended to make CDC a stronger, nimbler agency better able to protect Americans from domestic and global public health threats and rebuild trust. She was joined in conversation with former Senator Richard Burr, Co-Chair of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security and Principal Policy Advisor and Chair, Health Policy Strategic Consulting Practice, DLA Piper. They discussed the agency's achievements, what has worked and not worked, the core challenges that persist, and how to best position the agency to sustain progress in 2025.
NC DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen discusses the department's priorities for addressing early childhood health and education in North Carolina during this Sulzberger Distinguished Lecture April 16, 2018. Dr. Cohen was introduced by Linda Burton.Director of the Center for Child and Family Policy at the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy.
January 17, 2018 Sulzberger Distinguished Lecture featuring N.C. DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen, Duke Center for Child and Family Health (archived page courtesy of the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine)
Mandy Cohen, Op-Ed, News & Observer, July 20, 2017 As Secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, my job is to ensure our public dollars are used to buy health – not only health care – for our citizens. We must look beyond what is typically thought of as “health care” and invest more strategically in health.
Presented by Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, Secretary, N.C. Department of Health and Human Resources Thursday, December 7, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m, Joan H. Gillings Auditorium (133 Rosenau Hall)