Elizabeth T. Robinson, M.S., is Deputy Director for Research Dissemination at Family Health International. As head of FHI's Information Programs unit, she manages FHI publications, research dissemination activities, and technical assistance in communications for research studies. She is the co-author of Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research (Jossey Bass, 2005), a textbook used in more than 100 countries. Since joining FHI in 1985, she has served in various capacities, including as managing editor for FHI's scientific periodicals; editor of numerous reports, books, and articles; member of FHI's Gender Advisory Committee; Web architect for multiple health Web sites; and manager of FHI's international health journalism training programs. Beth is a member of the Steering Committee of the Microbicides Media Communications Initiative (MMCI). She has taught scientific paper writing programs for international researchers since 1986, including courses in English, French and Spanish for NIH-affiliated researchers studying malaria. In the 1990s, she worked on FHI's Women's Studies Project, co-developing a process evaluation to determine the inclusion of women's advocates in the research process, and has served on interagency working groups on female genital cutting, emergency contraception, microbicides, and gender. Beth has held consultancies with the World Health Organization, the American Social Health Association, and the International Monetary Fund. In the early 1980s, she worked as a journalist in metropolitan New York, Washington, DC, North Africa, and francophone West Africa. Beth received an M.S. in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York and held a fellowship in the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Fellows Program.