Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

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Alicia Cohen, MD, MSc, FAAFP is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University and an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. She is also a Core Investigator and Co-Director of the VA Advanced Health Systems Research Postdoctoral Fellowship at the VA Providence Healthcare System's Transformative Health Systems Research to Improve Veteran Equity and Independence (THRIVE) Center of Innovation (COIN). Her research aims to understand and improve patient, community, health system, and structural-level processes to address adverse social determinants of health and advance health equity across the lifespan. She has published extensively on social drivers of health and social care integration, food insecurity, and health inequities, and her work has been cited in Congressional testimony on Veteran and military hunger. She also co-leads on a national VA clinical intervention to screen for and address social risks and health-related social needs, “Assessing Circumstances and Offering Resources for Needs” (ACORN), conducted in partnership with the VA Office of Health Equity and National Social Work Program. Dr. Cohen practices primary care at the VA Providence’s Homeless clinic and Women’s Health clinic.

She received her MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She completed her Family Medicine training at the UCSF-Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency followed by an Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Michigan. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholar at the University of Michigan during which time she earned a master’s degree in Health and Health Care Research. Dr. Cohen subsequently completed an Advanced Health Services Research & Development Fellowship at the VA Ann Arbor Center for Clinical Management Research and VA Providence Center of Innovation in Long Term Services and Supports (now THRIVE COIN). Dr. Cohen served as a 2022-2024 James C. Puffer/American Board of Family Medicine Fellow with the National Academy of Medicine, and a 2022-2025 VA Fellow on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity.

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