Joshua Cohen

Turned off by his family’s predilection for the medical doctor profession – following in the footsteps of the family patriarch all four siblings became physicians – Joshua Cohen obtained a degree in economics. “However, as a child growing up I was obviously subconsciously affected by all that health talk around the dinner table, as I specialized in health economics,” says Joshua. Interested less in the clinical side of health and more in the economic aspects, he wants to find out whether what the physicians are prescribing is really worth it and how to facilitate patient access to medically necessary biopharmaceuticals. His research has run the gamut from the ethics of healthcare distribution, to personalized medicine, to neglected disease drug development.