Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen is project director of the Law and Health Initiative, a division of the Open Society Foundations Public Health Program. Launched in 2005, the initiative supports a range of legal assistance, litigation, and law reform efforts to advance public health goals worldwide.

From 2002-2006, Cohen was a researcher with the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, where he conducted numerous investigations of rights violations linked to the AIDS epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa, southeast Asia, and North America. A Canadian lawyer, Cohen served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada in 2001 and was co-editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review. He has degrees from Yale College, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.