Elizabeth Chong is a migration health professional advancing equitable access to care for migrants and displaced populations across Asia and the Pacific. She serves as the Regional Migration Health Support Officer at the International Organization for Migration Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, where she supports more than 40 country missions to design and implement health programmes spanning health promotion, humanitarian emergencies, and health system strengthening. In this role, she also contributes to regional initiatives on gender mainstreaming and climate-resilient, migrant-inclusive approaches. 

Elizabeth plays a key role in the Global Fund Tuberculosis Elimination Project in the Greater Mekong Subregion (TEAM2), ensuring that performance data is translated into actionable insights for programme improvement, accountability, and learning. She leads monitoring and evaluation and donor reporting for this multi-country initiative, which operates across five countries and works with 13 sub-recipients. Currently, she is co-leading a three-year evaluation (2022–2024) to assess screening approaches, synthesize best practices, and generate practical recommendations to strengthen future migrant-inclusive health programming.

Originally trained as a hospital pharmacist, Elizabeth pivoted into public health after helping establish a refugee charity clinic in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic. The experience exposed the layered barriers refugees, migrants, and undocumented individuals face in accessing employment, education, and healthcare, and reinforced her belief that migration is a critical social determinant of health. She later earned a Master of Public Health, concentration in Humanitarian Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, deepening her technical expertise in crisis and displacement settings.

Alongside programme implementation, Elizabeth contributes to policy development, including efforts to advance the Plan of Action for Healthcare Coverage for Documented Migrant Workers across ASEAN Member States. Her long-term goal is to strengthen evidence-driven migrant-inclusive health systems, so mobility is never a barrier to timely, dignified care.