University of San Francisco California
Alicia Cohen, MD, MSc
Providence VA Medical Center and Brown University
Dr. Cohen is a Research Investigator at the Providence VA’s Center of Innovation in Long Term Services and Supports, an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Health Services, Policy, and Practice at Brown University, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Family Medicine at the University of Michigan. Her research examines the intersections of food insecurity and health, with a particular focus on clinical-community partnered interventions to better identify and address food insecurity and health-related social needs more broadly. Clinically, she works as a primary care provider in the women’s health and homeless clinics at the Providence VA Medical Center.
Dr. Cohen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and completed her Family Medicine training at the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program followed by an Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Michigan. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Michigan during which time she earned her master’s degree in Health and Health Care Research. She subsequently completed an Advanced Health Services Research & Development Fellowship at the Ann Arbor VA’s Center for Clinical Management Research.