Aly Cohen, MD

Dr. Aly Cohen is a board-certified rheumatologist, integrative medicine specialist, and environmental health expert in Princeton, New Jersey. She has collaborated with the Environmental Working Group, Cancer Schmancer, and other disease-prevention organizations and is co-editor of the textbook Integrative Environmental Medicine, part of the Oxford University Press/Weil Integrative Medicine, Academic Series.

In 2015, she created TheSmartHuman.com to share environmental health, disease prevention, and wellness information with the public. She lectures nationally on environmental health topics for elementary/high schools, colleges/universities, medical schools, and physician-training programs, and she is a regular expert guest for television, print, and podcasts. She has received countless awards, including Top Docs NJ in rheumatology from 2016 to 2021, the NJ Healthcare Heroes Award in Education for The Smart Human educational platform in 2015, and the 2016 Burton L. Eichler Award for humanitarianism.

Dr. Cohen is working to educate and empower the next generation to make safer, smarter lifestyle choices by creating national environmental health and prevention curricula for schools. Her TEDx talk, “How to Protect Your Kids from Toxic Chemicals,” can be found on YouTube, and you can follow her health and wellness tips and recommendations on Facebook at The Smart Human, Twitter, and Instagram: @thesmarthuman. Sign up for The Smart Human newsletter, read her latest posts at TheSmartHuman.com, and listen to her podcast “The Smart Human.”

Dr. Cohen lives on a farm in New Jersey with her husband, two sons, and many furry friends.