She also is the founder and CEO of an organisation called Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART).
She has campaigned for humanitarian causes, particularly relating to disability.
Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005.
She was also a Baroness-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II.
She was Founder Chancellor of Bournemouth University; Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University from 2006-2013 and is an Hon.
Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing.
She was a founder Trustee of MERLIN Medical Emergency Relief International.She is a prominent lay Anglican, closely identified with the conservative wing of the Church of England.
According to a biography by Andrew Boyd, she is a practising third-order Anglican Franciscan, Baroness Cox's actions have been described as campaigns for humanitarian causes, particularly those relating to disability.