Meet the Devex Authors

Elizabeth Nelson

Elizabeth Nelson

Elizabeth Nelson is the U.K. director for Search for Common Ground, the world's largest dedicated peace-building organization working in over 35 countries to tackle some of the world's most intractable conflicts. Elizabeth previously worked in government, the House of Commons, and the European Parliament and was director at the Restorative Justice Council.
Elizabeth Ntonjira

Elizabeth Ntonjira

Elizabeth Ntonjira is the global communications director at Amref Health Africa. She is committed to changing the African narrative by showcasing compelling stories that reflect the progress in Africa’s development agenda. Her experience includes various roles in the public, private, and international development sectors. For her work, she has received various awards and accolades, being recognized as the best TV reporter on gender and development by the United Nations Population Fund Awards in 2012, while working at Nation Media Group, the largest media house in east and central Africa.
Elizabeth Pappadopulos

Elizabeth Pappadopulos

Elizabeth Pappadopulos is a clinical psychologist and the global medical affairs lead for CNS Disorders at Upjohn, a division of Pfizer. Her professional priorities are to raise awareness and advance the prevention, identification, and implementation of evidence-based treatments for mental health disorders and noncommunicable diseases on a global scale through partnerships with experts, advocacy, and professional/scientific organizations on data generation/publications and educational initiatives.
Elizabeth Radin

Elizabeth Radin

Elizabeth Radin is the director of health policy at the International Rescue Committee. In this role, she works to advance policy solutions to public health challenges in fragile settings. Radin has 20 years of experience leading global health research, programs, and policy with partners across Africa and Asia.
Elizabeth Ransom

Elizabeth Ransom

Elizabeth Ransom is director of communications and advocacy for Helen Keller International’s Assessment and Research on Child Feeding project. Over the past two decades, she has worked in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors as an international public health and communications professional, including roles with the State Department Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives initiative, and Marie Stopes International subsidiary Options Consultancy. She has a background in radio journalism and a master’s degree in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Elizabeth Smith

Elizabeth Smith

Elizabeth Smith has been a governance adviser with the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative since 2013, primarily in Liberia. Between August and December 2014, Elizabeth supported Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who heads Liberia’s Ebola Response, on the coordination of the National Incident Management System. She has also worked with Dr. Emmanuel Dolo, the president’s adviser on Ebola, to support the establishment of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Ebola.
Elizabeth Stuart

Elizabeth Stuart

Elizabeth Stuart is team leader for sustainable development goals at the Overseas Development Institute in London, where she is also a research fellow. Before joining ODI, Elizabeth was director of policy and research at Save the Children. She also led Oxfam International office in Washington, D.C. She is a former journalist for the Guardian and the BBC.
Elizabeth Warindi

Elizabeth Warindi

Elizabeth Warindi is a passionate advocate of gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa. She uses storytelling to platform the voices of youth, women, and girls to ensure their voices are heard in SRHR advocacy.
Elizabeth Westley

Elizabeth Westley

Elizabeth Westley leads the International Consortium for Emergency Contraception, a global network that includes close to 4,000 individuals from more than 120 countries.
Elizabeth Zehner

Elizabeth Zehner

Elizabeth Zehner is the project director for Helen Keller International’s Assessment and Research on Child Feeding project. Zehner, who has managed the ARCH project for the past three years, has extensive experience as a technical adviser in the area of international maternal, infant and young child nutrition. With a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University, she has worked with several organizations which focus on child health and nutrition issues, including PAHO, Nurture, and Wellstart and has done consulting for organizations including Save the Children, UNICEF and GAIN.