Elizabeth Fox is the Deputy Coordinator for Maternal and Child Survival at USAID and a Senior Adviser in Global Health. She supports the Agency goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths in a generation. 

Dr. Fox has been with USAID for 20 years. Before joining USAID, she was the manager of strategic planning at the International Bureau of Broadcasting, formerly USIA. She worked for ten years for the International Development Research Centre of Canada as the social sciences representative for Latin America, headquartered in Bogota, Colombia, and Buenos Aires, Argentina and as a consultant to UNESCO in Paris. She holds a PhD in International Relations, an MA in Communications, and a degree in journalism. In 1990 she held the first UNESCO chair in communication at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. She received an honorary doctorate from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Peru in 2007. She has published extensively in the field of health and development, social and behavioral sciences, and media policies.