A writer and medical anthropologist, Liz Métraux has more than two decades of experience around the globe helping individuals and organizations share their stories.
Beginning her career in political movements – most notably in the Middle East and former Soviet Union during the Iraq War and Arab Spring – she moved from the frontlines of war to the frontlines of healthcare after seeing the critical role of public health in civil society development. Liz led communications at the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Scientific Diversity, spearheaded public affairs for USAID’s tuberculosis and infectious disease projects in the Central Asian Republics, and undertook a multiyear national research project on joy, trauma and loneliness in the American healthcare workforce. At the Better World Campaign, she advocates for a stronger relationship between the U.S. and the United Nations to address emergent humanitarian emergencies, global health crises and the most pressing issues impacting our planet.