Bertha Coombs is a reporter for CNBC, covering financial markets, business news stories and health care throughout the business day. Her health care coverage has focused on health care service companies, including health insurers, hospitals and pharmacies, as well as the growing impact of digital health technology on the health care industry, ranging from the explosion of telehealth in the wake of the COVID pandemic to the companies trying to change the way primary care is delivered.
In nearly two decades at CNBC, she has also covered technology firms from the Nasdaq Marketsite, the energy markets from the former floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange, as well as reported on the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, and issues such as the growing impact of Latinos in the U.S. economy, and the push to improve health equity in the wake of social unrest in 2020. Before joining CNBC, Coombs was a reporter and anchor for the pioneering streaming business network, Yahoo Finance Vision. Prior, she served as a reporter for ABC News One, substitute anchor for “World News Now” and “World News This Morning,” after local news reporting jobs in New York and Miami.
Coombs is a graduate of Yale University and was awarded the Leo Beranek Reporter Training Fellowship at WCVB-TV in Boston. Born in Havana, Cuba, she speaks fluent Spanish.