Elizabeth Fox is a senior leader in global health with 40 years’ experience making communications, behavior, and culture central to health programs around the world. During her 23- year career at USAID, including as Director of the Office of Health, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition, she built and managed large global health initiatives and led multi-disciplinary teams to achieve ambitious, measurable health goals. She advanced the application of evidenced-based social sciences to public health and redirected global health programs to increase their focus on people, communities, behavior, and cultures. She led a multi-agency evidence summit and developed a roadmap for building, reporting, assessing, and apply- ing evidence for social, behavioral, and community engagement interventions for women’s and children’s health.

Elizabeth was the manager of strategic planning at the International Bureau of Broadcasting and spent ten years with the International Development Research Centre of Canada as social sciences representative in Latin America. Elizabeth earned a Doctor in Philosophy in International Relations from America University School of International Service, a master’s degree in Communications from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and a degree in journalism from the Javieriana University in Colombia. In 1990, she held the first UNESCO chair in communication at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. She has published extensively in the fields of health and development, social and behavioral sciences, and media and politics.