Elizabeth Costenbader, PhD, is a Senior Social and Behavioral Scientist and Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) expert in the Global Health, Population and Nutrition Division at FHI 360. Trained in the Population and Family Health Department at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and with 16 years post-doctoral professional experience, she has significant technical expertise and experience collaborating on and leading applied global public health research and interventions. Across her tenure in the field of global public health, Dr. Costenbader has worked on projects addressing a variety of health and development outcomes including, most notably, sexual and reproductive health, HIV, family planning, maternal and child health, nutrition, gender-based violence, women's economic empowerment, climate change and substance abuse and is particularly passionate about building the evidence-base to understand social determinants of health and development issues and facilitate gender equality and social inclusion. 

Dr. Costenbader has considerable experience with designing and leading capacity strengthening initiatives, measurement development, scale-up approaches and use of mixed-methods research methods. Dr. Costenbader is skilled in translating and communicating research findings for different audiences and has a strong track record of both peer-reviewed publications and presentations for research audiences and development of guides, tools, blogs, reports and briefs for policy and programmatic audiences. Dr. Costenbader's work has a global focus such that she is accustomed to working collaboratively with colleagues from different social and cultural contexts and across geographies and time-zones.