Staff Member

Elizabeth Neely Box is an experienced public health communications leader. For almost 15 years, she has consulted on strategic communications planning, corporate communications, crisis communications, and community outreach to federal government, nonprofit, and private sector clients. She specializes in strategic storytelling campaigns, partnership engagement and management, and change management.

Box serves as senior advisor to the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention at EDC (Action Alliance). As the project director for the Action Alliance’s 988 Formative Research Project, she has provided strategic and technical leadership to an examination of the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, barriers, and motivators related to people’s use of the 988 Lifeline.

Beyond EDC, Box works as a health communications strategist with organizations nationwide and is a board member for the CONTACT Care Line—East Tennessee’s 988 Lifeline provider. Throughout her career, she has developed and executed national public health communications campaigns for clients, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, that have successfully reached and engaged millions of people.

Box holds an MPH from the George Washington University-Milken Institute School of Public Health.