Laura Cohen is the Associate Vice President for Environment Shaping in Eli Lilly and Company’s Neuroscience Corporate Affairs group where she focuses on policy, access, and reimbursement issues for Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics, diagnostics, and screening. Previously, Cohen was the head of environment shaping and health policy for Lilly’s Immunology business unit where she worked across dermatology, rheumatology, and gastroenterology. Before joining Lilly, Cohen practiced law in several large law firms, including Sidley Austin, LLP; was an in-house counsel for a health insurance company where she focused on regulatory and government affairs issues; and began her career in health policy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Cohen holds a BA with honors from Brandeis University in History and Health Policy and a JD with honors from Suffolk Law School.