Elizabeth H. Williams, Country Representative for John Snow, Inc. (JSI) in Liberia, works closely with Senior Staff at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and with partner organizations to support the Liberian government's efforts to rebuild its health sector.  After the country's twenty-year civil conflict, a national priority to is to transition from a clinic-focused, relief-funded system to an integrated public health system. JSI currently manages projects in Liberia, including USAID|DELIVER, USAID|BASICS, MEASURE,  and the Consortium Reproductive Health and Conflict for Refugees.   Ms. Williams has also provided significant technical assistance on many issues, including the coordination of external aid, health financing, and mental health and social welfare policy.  JSI, in collaboration with the Center for Global Development, also manages the Liberia Family Fellows Program.

Previously, Ms. Williams was Acting Director for the Asian Social Issues Program at the Asia Society, in New York, where she was responsible for programs on social issues and human rights.  Ms. Williams joined the Asia Society as Senior Program Officer for HIV/AIDS and Public Health to develop and implement the AIDS in Asia Initiative.  This initiative, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, raised awareness of the growing impact of HIV/AIDS in Asia and established new partnerships in response to the pandemic. During this time she launched major projects in Tokyo, Shanghai and Mumbai, including the first ever multisectorial conversation about HIV/AIDS in Japan, and a groundbreaking symposium in Shanghai in 2005.

Ms. Williams held a fellowship at the World Health Organization in Geneva. After graduation from Princeton, she received a Project 55 Fellowship to work at Physicians for Human Rights where she served as Education Coordinator. She has been an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Whitehead School for Diplomacy at Seton Hall University, and has lectured at national and international conferences and forums. A term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Truman Project, she serves on the Board of Overseers of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and on the University of Maryland's College Park Board of Visitors for the School of Public Health. Williams received her Masters in Public Health from the Mailman School and is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University, class of 1998.