Elizabeth Fox

Dr. Elizabeth Fox is a senior leader and technical expert with 40 years of experience making communications, behavior, and culture central to health programs around the world. She currently serves as Chief Technical Leadership Officer at the Pan American Development Foundation. During her 23-year career at the United States Agency for International Development (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 is a recognized expert in advancing the application of evidence-based social sciences to public health. At USAID, she redirected global health programs to increase their focus on people, communities, behavior, and cultures, in addition to delivering services, medicines, and medical interventions. She led a multi-agency evidence summit on Population-level Behavior Change to Enhance Child Survival and Development and developed a roadmap for building, reporting, assessing, and applying evidence for social, behavioral, and community engagement interventions for women’s and children’s health.