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Elizabeth Stubblefield Loucks (“Betsy”) is a public health and environmental professional seeking to address social inequalities and promote environmental sustainability by facilitating the collaboration of public and private organizations. She has worked on a wide array of projects in community development and public health, include HIV/AIDS education for prison-based healthcare providers, urban environmental renewal, and elementary school education in ecology. Most recently she facilitated a team of senior public health professionals and hydro-electric engineers in Quebec to design a program for Cree communities in Northern Quebec that will mitigate the psychosocial impacts of a new hydro-electric power plant being built in James Bay.

Currently, Betsy is the manager of the Rhode Island Research Alliance, a program of the Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC) at the RI Economic Development Corporation. Her role there has been to help STAC make strategic recommendations to the state regarding research and development in life science, marine science, and energy/environmental science. Betsy has a Masters of Science (ScM) in public health (2003) in social epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, where she wrote a thesis on the human health impacts of global climate change. She also has a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec) where she wrote a thesis on engaging small businesses in practices that promote social and environmental sustainability.