Elisabeth Rosenthal

Elisabeth Rosenthal (born 29 April 1956) is a former American physician and New York Times reporter who has focused on health and environment matters. She has been a correspondent at the Times Beijing bureau, and continues to contribute to the New York Times opinion section.

Her 2017 book, An American Sickness, argues that, at the root of the U.S.'s healthcare problems, are severely distorted financial incentives.

She is editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News.

Education In 1978 Elisabeth Rosenthal obtained a bachelor's degrees in history and biology from Stanford University, and in 1980 an M.A. degree in English from the University of Cambridge, where she graduated as a Marshall Scholar.

In 1986 she received an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. She did her medical residency at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and worked part-time five years in the emergency department at Weill Cornell Medical Center. She discontinued her medical practice in 1994.

Personal life Rosenthal lives in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Awards 2014: Victor Cohn Prize for Medical Science Reporting

Select bibliography An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back, Penguin Press, 2017. "America's Broken Health Care System", Kaiser Health News (2019) – winner of the Gerald Loeb Award