Joshua Cohen covers healthcare policy, with a special focus on prescription drug pricing and reimbursement. Cohen writes about a wide variety of topics, including weight loss drugs, the Inflation Reduction Act, and even things like health risks related to climate change. Cohen is an independent healthcare analyst who works on a freelance basis on a variety of writing, research and teaching projects related to healthcare policy and pharmaceuticals. He has published extensively (hundreds of publications) in peer-reviewed journals and periodicals. Cohen has also presented his work at dozens of international and domestic (U.S.) conferences. Prior to being self-employed for the past seven plus years, he was an academic researcher at Tufts University for 18 years, a post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania for two years, a visiting fellow at Harvard University for two years and a Ph.d candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Amsterdam for four years.