Elizabeth Mason is a specialist in Public Health – Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and has more than 40 years’ experience in Clinical care; Policy and Strategy development; Planning, management, implementation and monitoring of programmes at all levels of the health service, including 24 years living and working in Zimbabwe and the African region. She was Director of the department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health at WHO HQ Geneva, for 10 years. She serves on a number of Technical Advisory Groups, Review Panels and Research Groups at Global and Regional Level. She qualified in Medicine from the University of Leeds, has an MPH from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, UK, an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Global Health, UCL, UK.