Elizabeth Stones

Senior Technical Advisor for Gender and Youth, Momentum Integrated Health Resilience

Elizabeth Stones has over 10 years’ experience supporting USAID and other stakeholders to promote gender equity, youth engagement, and inclusion in health systems across sub-Saharan Africa. This work has included co-creating strategies, designing and facilitating trainings, developing toolkits, conducting analyses and evaluations, and providing technical assistance for best practices related to gender- and youth-responsive services and systems, gender-based violence prevention and response, and male engagement. Prior to joining the MIHR team, she served as a Gender and Inclusion Advisor, leading gender, youth, and GBV programming in RMNCAH and HIV/AIDS activities in Ethiopia, Benin, Uganda, and Lesotho as well as direct support to USAID’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub leading gender and GBV trainings for USAID staff. She started her career in development as a Peace Corps volunteer in Rwanda, where she worked to promote gender equality, SRHR, and leadership and life skills with adolescents. She holds an MPH from Johns Hopkins University and is fluent in French.