Ngozi N. Moses, MSc

Ngozi N. Moses, MSc, is founding Executive Director of Brooklyn Perinatal Network, Inc. Anor ganizational strategist and community health advocate, she developed the network from a community taskforce of health service providers to a collaborative of community health organizations that engage in addressing troubling disparities in infant and maternal health.

Ms. Moses' leadership is acknowledged for development, facilitation, and management initiatives, addressing policy and program resources for maternal and child health. While BPN’s work primarily targets vulnerable working class communities, enabling access to resources that mitigate social determinants of health, their strategies leverage broad cross-sector collaboration, engaging cross-sector stakeholders to affect public policy and the development of safety net resources.

Trained in environmental, public and community health, Ms. Moses entered public service in 1984 with the NYC DOHMH. Ms. Moses helped co-found/expand the interest of other organizations and forums to address MCH, including the Caribbean Women’s Health Association Inc., the NYC Prenatal Care Steering Committee, which advocated for the passage of the historic NYS Prenatal Care Assistance Program legislation, offering free healthcare to pregnant women regardless of income. She is a founding member of the Commission on the Public Health System NYC, known for challenging public policies that may compromise the public’s health system. Through the Brooklyn Hospital Community Health Planning Workgroup, she led a partnership community health needs assessment, “The Need for Caring in North and Central Brooklyn,” March 2013 report.

Ms. Moses served on several community advisory forums including: parent-teacher and faithbased associations, food programs, immigrant/refugees, personal/professional development, language/cultural competency work, public health, policy/advocacy, including The Hospital Crisis in Brooklyn, NYS Medicaid Redesign Team, Health Disparities Workgroup, and NYS DOH Minority Health Council. While on the Medical Redesign Team, she advocated for CBOs to acquire health information technology capacity, resulting in a DOH cross-state Perinatal HIT demonstration initiative. Ms. Moses currently leads efforts to introduce the evidence-based Pathways Community HUB program model, helping CBOs to more effectively coordinate their work addressing social determinants of health with a financially sustainable strategy.