Biography
Marta Elisa Moret is president of Urban Policy Strategies, LLC, a New Haven-based consulting firm that conducts community public health research and assessment. UPS evaluates the impact of community-based interventions in areas such as HIV/AIDS, childhood health, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, and maternal health. UPS uses evidence-based approaches to enhance the capacity of African-American, Latino, and Native American community organizations to implement successful disease prevention programs. This work has served as a model for community-academic partnerships in addressing public health issues facing underserved families and children.
Ms. Moret is active with the Yale Alumni Association and has served on its board of governors. She was an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Public Health, Southern Connecticut State University, where she taught maternal and child health for many years. She previously held positions in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, and the Hispanic Health Council.
Ms. Moret was the deputy commissioner for the Connecticut Department of Social Services from 1991 to 1994. She chairs the board of the Campaign School at Yale and serves on the board of the Fair Haven Community Health Center. Previously, she served on the boards of the New Alliance Foundation and Story Corps. Ms. Moret was named to the Winslow Centennial Honor Roll for Excellence and Service of the Yale School of Public Health in 2015, received the Alexis de Tocqueville Herbert H. Pearce Award from the United Way of Greater New Haven in 2019, and was awarded the Junior Achievement of Southwest New England’s Spirit of Hope Award winner in 2020. In 2024, she received recognition for Outstanding Service from the Yale Club of New Haven, for her more than a decade of work helping to implement the Yale Book Award for New Haven schoolchildren.
Ms. Moret earned her MPH degree from the Yale School of Public Health in 1984.
