Liz has served as the Core Director since its creation in March 2012 when she joined Duke’s Global Health Institute and Duke’s Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics. With a PhD in statistics from McGill University, Canada, followed by four years working as a collaborative biostatistician in the Department of Medical Statistics, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Liz has extensive experience working in both epidemiological studies and randomized trials across a range of substantive areas in developed world and resource poor settings. Thanks to her participation in multi-disciplinary projects, she has a great appreciation for the importance of good study design and data collection and is well aware that no fancy statistical analyses can save researchers from the scourge of bad data. Through those experiences and her teaching in different settings, including the US, UK, Canada, France and Tanzania, she is aware that statisticians and their collaborators sometimes “speak a different language”. As a result, her approach is very much one of translation, pragmatism and collaboration. Her current primary substantive areas of focus are malaria and global mental health.