Joel C. Cantor, ScD
ScD, Johns Hopkins University
About Dr. Cantor
Leadership & Core Faculty
Joel C. Cantor, ScD is the 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 and focuses his work on informing and evaluating innovations in health services financing and delivery for Medicaid beneficiaries and other groups experiencing health-related social needs and other barriers to high quality health services. He currently leads the NJ Health cohort study, and the Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) project.
Dr. Cantor also serves as principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health funded study (R01MD015261) examining the contribution of homelessness to racial/ethnic and geographic disparities in health services outcomes and how permanent supportive housing can mitigate those disparities. He has been recognized for his work on health insurance markets by the National Academy of Social Insurance, to which he was elected in 2019. He also is the 2006 recipient of the Rutgers University President's Award for Research in Service to New Jersey. 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.