Mary Beth Cox is an Epidemiologist with the North Carolina Division of Public Health. In the six years since receiving her Master of Public Health in epidemiology and global health from New York Medical College, she has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi and worked in communicable disease surveillance in New York and North Carolina. She joined the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch in January 2016 as a Substance Use Epidemiologist. Cox serves on several state and national work groups that aim to reduce alcohol and other drug morbidity and mortality.