Elisabeth Rosenthal

Elisabeth Rosenthal (born April 29, 1956 in New York City) is a non-practicing medical doctor and reporter for The New York Times who in recent years has focused on health and environment issues. She was previously a correspondent in the NYT's Beijing bureau.

Education

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

She attended Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1986. She did her residency at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and worked part-time in the emergency department at New York Hospital for 5 years. She quit her medical practice in 1994.

Career

Elisabeth Rosenthal began working for The New York Times in 1994 as a science reporter, before covering the health and hospitals beat. Starting in 1997, she worked as the Beijing correspondent for six years. She then became the European health and environment correspondent, working out the Times' office in Rome. Rosenthal moved back to New York in 2008 and became the paper's global environmental correspondent. In 2012, she began covering the Affordable Care Act, which started her new beat as a healthcare report.

Family

Rosenthal lives in New York.