CHERG

Monica Fox received her bachelor's degree (1995) in International Development at American University in Washington, DC and her master's in Health Sciences from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1999. After heading up the Prevention Evaluation Division at the Maryland State Department of Health, AIDS Administration, she returned to Johns Hopkins in 2004 to manage a large USAID-funded Cooperative Agreement aimed at contributing to the evidence-base for programs and policies worldwide in the areas of nutrition, maternal and child health, and the reduction of infectious diseases. Additionally, she works with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) whose overall goal is to develop and deploy new and improved evidence on the causes and determinants of maternal, neonatal and child morbidity and mortality, on intervention coverage, and on the effectiveness of interventions to inform and influence global priorities and programs. Monica lives in Baltimore, Maryland.