Joel C. Cantor, ScD
ScD, Johns Hopkins University
About Dr. Cantor
Leadership & Core Faculty
Joel C. Cantor, ScD is the founding director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy and a distinguished professor of public policy at the Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Dr. Cantor is a national leader in health policy and services research. His research focuses on innovations in health services financing and delivery for Medicaid beneficiaries and other groups experiencing health-related social needs and barriers to high quality health services. He currently leads the NJHealth Study, the Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) project, and studies of Medicaid health services outcomes for people experiencing homelessness funded by the NIH (R01MD015261) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Dr. Cantor is the 2006 recipient of the Rutgers University President's Award for Research in Service to New Jersey and was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance in 2019. Before joining the Center in 1999, Dr. Cantor was director of research for the United Hospital Fund in New York City and director of evaluation research for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He earned his Doctor of Science in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.