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Dr. Michelle Cohen

Dr. Michelle Cohen

Physician, Dept of Family Medicine, Queen's University

Dr. Michelle Cohen is a family physician at Lakeview Family Health Team and Lakelands Public Health. She holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University. Dr. Cohen has written articles for CBC, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Maclean's, Healthy Debate, Chatelaine and other publications. She speaks on issues relating to primary care, rural health, women's health, equity in medicine and pseudoscience and health communication. Dr. Cohen is a contributing author for 2024's Breaking Canadians: Healthcare, Advocacy and the Toll of COVID-19. Her upcoming book, Her Body, Her Cure: On the Personal & Political in Wellness Culture, is due out in early 2027. In it, Dr. Cohen explores the deep history of women rejecting mainstream medicine to seek alternative health treatments as a means of gaining bodily autonomy and professional power in a misogynistic society.

Dr. Michelle Cohen is a family physician at Lakeview Family Health Team and Lakelands Public Health. She holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University. Dr. Cohen has written articles for CBC, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Maclean's, Healthy Debate, Chatelaine and other publications. She speaks on issues relating to primary care, rural health, women's health, equity in medicine and pseudoscience and health communication. Dr. Cohen is a contributing author for 2024's Breaking Canadians: Healthcare, Advocacy and the Toll of COVID-19. Her upcoming book, Her Body, Her Cure: On the Personal & Political in Wellness Culture, is due out in early 2027. In it, Dr. Cohen explores the deep history of women rejecting mainstream medicine to seek alternative health treatments as a means of gaining bodily autonomy and professional power in a misogynistic society.

Books

Breaking Canadians: Health Care, Advocacy, and the Toll of COVID-19

By Editor: Nili Kaplan-Myrth, Contributor: Michelle Cohen

Published by University of Toronto Press

Research

Proportion of Female Physicians in a Specialty and Median Annual Payments in Ontario, Canada

Published by JAMA Open

By Tara Kiran, Susan Schults, Rahim Moineddin, Maryam Daneshvarfard, Michelle Cohen, Lidija Latifovic, Lyn Sibley, Richard Glazier

Changes and contributions to the gender pay gap in surgery in Canada: a repeated cross-sectional analysis from 1996 to 2020

Published by BMJ Open

By Michelle Cohen, Fahima Dossa, Tara Kiran

End immigration detention: an open letter

Published by The Lancet

By Michaela Beder, Michelle Cohen, Katrina Hui, Carolina Jimenez

Closing the gender pay gap in Canadian medicine

Published by Canadian Medical Association Journal

By Michelle Cohen, Tara Kiran

Medical Doctor

University of Toronto

2007

CCFP

in Family Medicine residency

University of Toronto

2010

Dr. Michelle Cohen is a family physician at Lakeview Family Health Team and Lakelands Public Health. She holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Queen's University. Dr. Cohen has written articles for CBC, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Maclean's, Healthy Debate, Chatelaine and other publications. She speaks on issues relating to primary care, rural health, women's health, equity in medicine and pseudoscience and health communication.

Dr. Cohen is a contributing author for 2024's Breaking Canadians: Healthcare, Advocacy and the Toll of COVID-19. Her upcoming book, Her Body, Her Cure: On the Personal & Political in Wellness Culture, is due out in early 2027. In it, Dr. Cohen explores the deep history of women rejecting mainstream medicine to seek alternative health treatments as a means of gaining bodily autonomy and professional power in a misogynistic society.

What can the federal government do to prepare Canada for the next health crisis?

The Hill Times

Employers should have to foot the bill for mandatory sick notes

CBC

Don’t insult health care workers by calling COVID-19 response ‘hysteria’

Toronto Star

War mentality, and laws, required to protect medical staff

Toronto Star

Most Canadian gun deaths are suicides. We need tighter controls

Ottawa Citizen

Lack of access to abortion in rural Canada severely limits its protection

Toronto Star

Manitoba's health minister avoids accountability on abortion by punting questions to another ministry

CBC

Why can naturopaths mislead the public about their credentials? Because no one bothers to stop them

CBC

Goop has exploited the medical establishment's failures on women's health

CBC

We shouldn't wait for national pharmacare — we need universal contraception coverage now

CBC

It took two years to close a cruel loophole in palliative care, even with legislative consensus. Why?

CBC

Don’t insult health care workers by calling COVID-19 response ‘hysteria’

Toronto Star

War mentality, and laws, required to protect medical staff

Toronto Star

Most Canadian gun deaths are suicides. We need tighter controls

Ottawa Citizen

Manitoba's health minister avoids accountability on abortion by punting questions to another ministry

CBC

Why can naturopaths mislead the public about their credentials? Because no one bothers to stop them

CBC

Goop has exploited the medical establishment's failures on women's health

CBC

We shouldn't wait for national pharmacare: We need universal contraception coverage now

CBC

Lack of access to abortion in rural Canada severely limits its protection

Toronto Star

Coronavirus could decimate small and isolated communities in Nunavut

Maclean's

Why the abortion pill is more important than ever during the coronavirus

Maclean's

Medicine's bigotry and bullying problem

Maclean's

What the gender pay gap in medicine tells us about women's health

Medpage Today

Canada undervalues women’s healthcare. Medicine’s pay gap proves it

Chatelaine

Ontario’s vaccine rollout confusion is a deliberate political tactic

Toronto Star

Being healthy is not the same as being virtuous

Medium

Why aren’t mainstream media holding fear-mongering MDs to account?

Toronto Star

The wellness profiteers of vitual health care

Healthy Debate

We are walking down the dangerous path of health care privatization

Toronto Star

No-cost contraception faces barriers of wellness influencers and social conservatives in Alberta

Calgary Herald

How Hollywood’s obsession with the ‘Dry Look’ harms men and boys
Pain and Prejudice: A new book explores misogyny in health care
Sex toys for sexual health
Spinning a Conspiracist Web to Support Anti-Trans Protests
‘That Women Will Have the Same Opportunities as Men’
#NoMoreManels and the ‘Med Ed Pledge’
Medical abortion is an essential service during the pandemic
Gender segregation, pay inequity. Understanding the ‘pink-collar’ tier in medicine
Violating Nature’s health laws: how an eccentric early 20th century influencer set the stage for the COVID infodemic

Books

University of Toronto Press

By Editor: Nili Kaplan-Myrth, Contributor: Michelle Cohen

Published by University of Toronto Press

Research

JAMA Open

Published by JAMA Open

BMJ Open

Published by BMJ Open

The Lancet

Published by The Lancet

Canadian Medical Association Journal

Published by Canadian Medical Association Journal

Medical Doctor

University of Toronto

2026

CCFP

in Family Medicine residency

University of Toronto

2026

LOCATION

Brighton, Ontario, Canada

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

English

SPECIALIZED BEATS

Health Public health policy Healthcare system challenges Racial equity and diversity LGBTQ+ rights and advocacy Gender equality

EXPERTISE

primary care & family medicinerural healthequity in health carewomen's healthhealth policypseudoscience & health communication