Please join Barnard in Washington for a special presentation concerning maternal health inequities with alumna, Dr. Leslie M. Kantor.

Dr. Kantor chairs the Department of Urban-Global Public Health at the Rutgers School of Public Health and is a widely recognized public health leader, researcher, educator, and advocate. She is also the Principal Investigator for the State of New Jersey’s Nurture New Jersey initiative, a set of policies and programs that aim to make New Jersey the safest and most equitable location in which to give birth in the country. Dr. Kantor’s current research focuses on maternal health disparities within the State of New Jersey and improving health equity for Black women.

Dr. Kantor has been an advocate on public health issues since her student days at Barnard, when she started the college’s first peer-led health education program which focused on HIV/AIDS . After graduating from Barnard, Dr. Kantor obtained …