Remembering Jo Cox: A maternal health advocate extraordinaire

Jo Cox died Thursday from injuries sustained during an attack in her Yorkshire constituency. Cox was a mother of two and a member of the British Parliament. She was the former head of policy and advocacy at Oxfam, former director of the Maternal Mortality Campaign, and had advised and consulted Save the Children and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among many other positions. She was 41 years old.

Five years ago Devex named the 36-year old health campaigner to our list of 40 leaders under 40 years old who are influencing global development. We called Cox a “maternal health advocate extraordinaire,” and she told us how to make health care work better for “mums-to-be.”

Here is the short interview we conducted with Cox, upon naming her to our list of global development’s most promising young leaders.