Elizabeth L. Fox is a nutritionist and a social scientist whose work focuses on the intersection of nutrition, food systems, and ethics. Her research and teaching interests revolve around better understanding how food systems interact with individual stakeholders’ lived experiences, with an emphasis on the complexity of nutrition decisions, including the tradeoffs, value judgments, and risks involved in those decisions.
Prior to joining Cornell’s faculty, Elizabeth was a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow with the Berman Institute of Bioethics, working in the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program. She received her PhD in International Nutrition from Cornell University’s Division of Nutritional Sciences in 2016. She has also worked at the Women, Infants and Children program in San Diego, California and with the pediatric nutrition program at Les Centres GHESKIO, an HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Elizabeth received her BS at the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University with a minor in Global Health.