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Mandy Cohen
Mandy Krauthamer Cohen (born September 17, 1978) is an American internist, public health official, and healthcare executive who served as the 20th director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2023 to 2025. She was previously the executive vice president at Aledade and chief executive officer of Aledade Care Solution, a healthcare company.
Cohen earned a bachelor's degree in policy analysis and management from Cornell University, a medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine, and a graduate degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. From 2017 to 2021, she served as the Health Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Before that, Cohen was the chief operating officer and chief of staff at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services during the Obama Administration. She also served as the Deputy Director of Comprehensive Women's Health Services at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and is a founding member and former executive director of Doctors for America.
Cohen was listed as one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare in 2019. In 2020, she was awarded the Leadership in Public Health Practice Award by Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the American Medical Association presented her with the AMA Award for Outstanding Government Service. In 2021 she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Cohen was born to Marshall and Susan Krauthamer, has two younger siblings, and is Jewish. She grew up on the south shore of Long Island in the Baldwin hamlet in Hempstead, New York. Her mother worked as a hospital nurse practitioner in emergency medicine, and inspired her to pursue a medical career. Her father was a junior high guidance counselor in the New York City school system. When she was 12 years old, she had her bat mitzvah at her family's Reform synagogue.
Cohen attended Plaza Elementary School, graduated with high honors from Baldwin Senior High School, and was awarded a Baldwin Foundation for Education scholarship in 1996. She earned a bachelor's degree in policy analysis and management from Cornell University in 2000.
She earned a medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine in 2005, and a graduate degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2004. She trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. While she was a medical school student in 2004, she took up a position with the American College of Physicians on their National Council of Student Members. In her residency, she served on Massachusetts General Hospital's committees for primary care, quality assurance, and recruitment. She later served as Co-Director for the Health Policy Elective at Massachusetts General Hospital, and was a northeast representative for the American College of Physicians' National Council of Associates.
After completing her residency in Boston, Cohen moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as the Deputy Director of Comprehensive Women's Health Services from 2008 to 2009. In 2008 she was a founding member and National Outreach Director for the grassroots organization Doctors for Obama, later renamed Doctors for America. She served as the organization's policy director and later as Executive Director.
In 2013 she was hired as a senior advisor by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, to assist in implementing policies for Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children's Health Insurance Program, as well as the Federally Facilitated Marketplace under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Cohen was later appointed as the chief operating officer and chief of staff services at the agency, and from 2014 to 2015 served as acting director of the agency's Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. In 2014, while eight months pregnant, Cohen advocated for maternity coverage in the Affordable Care Act before the United States Congress.
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Mandy Cohen
Mandy Krauthamer Cohen (born September 17, 1978) is an American internist, public health official, and healthcare executive who served as the 20th director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2023 to 2025. She was previously the executive vice president at Aledade and chief executive officer of Aledade Care Solution, a healthcare company.
Cohen earned a bachelor's degree in policy analysis and management from Cornell University, a medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine, and a graduate degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. From 2017 to 2021, she served as the Health Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Before that, Cohen was the chief operating officer and chief of staff at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services during the Obama Administration. She also served as the Deputy Director of Comprehensive Women's Health Services at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and is a founding member and former executive director of Doctors for America.
Cohen was listed as one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare in 2019. In 2020, she was awarded the Leadership in Public Health Practice Award by Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the American Medical Association presented her with the AMA Award for Outstanding Government Service. In 2021 she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Cohen was born to Marshall and Susan Krauthamer, has two younger siblings, and is Jewish. She grew up on the south shore of Long Island in the Baldwin hamlet in Hempstead, New York. Her mother worked as a hospital nurse practitioner in emergency medicine, and inspired her to pursue a medical career. Her father was a junior high guidance counselor in the New York City school system. When she was 12 years old, she had her bat mitzvah at her family's Reform synagogue.
Cohen attended Plaza Elementary School, graduated with high honors from Baldwin Senior High School, and was awarded a Baldwin Foundation for Education scholarship in 1996. She earned a bachelor's degree in policy analysis and management from Cornell University in 2000.
She earned a medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine in 2005, and a graduate degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2004. She trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. While she was a medical school student in 2004, she took up a position with the American College of Physicians on their National Council of Student Members. In her residency, she served on Massachusetts General Hospital's committees for primary care, quality assurance, and recruitment. She later served as Co-Director for the Health Policy Elective at Massachusetts General Hospital, and was a northeast representative for the American College of Physicians' National Council of Associates.
After completing her residency in Boston, Cohen moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as the Deputy Director of Comprehensive Women's Health Services from 2008 to 2009. In 2008 she was a founding member and National Outreach Director for the grassroots organization Doctors for Obama, later renamed Doctors for America. She served as the organization's policy director and later as Executive Director.
In 2013 she was hired as a senior advisor by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, to assist in implementing policies for Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children's Health Insurance Program, as well as the Federally Facilitated Marketplace under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Cohen was later appointed as the chief operating officer and chief of staff services at the agency, and from 2014 to 2015 served as acting director of the agency's Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. In 2014, while eight months pregnant, Cohen advocated for maternity coverage in the Affordable Care Act before the United States Congress.