Julia McCarthy

Julia holds the position of Senior Program Officer, she plays a key leadership role in advancing the New York Health Foundation's Healthy Food, Healthy Lives priority area. The overarching goal of this initiative is to foster a more equitable food system that ensures every New Yorker has access to the food they need for optimal well-being. Before joining NYHealth, McCarthy served as the deputy director of the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University. In this capacity, she was responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, strategic planning, and the successful execution of various projects. 

The New York Health Foundation (NYHealth) is a private foundation with a statewide reach dedicated to improving the health of all New Yorkers, with a particular focus on historically marginalized populations, including people of color. Currently, NYHealth concentrates its efforts on three main priority areas: Empowering Health Care Consumers, Healthy Food, Healthy Lives, and Veterans' Health. In addition to grantmaking, the foundation actively engages in shaping health care policy and practice, spreading effective programs to enhance the health system's equity and effectiveness, convening health leaders across the state, and providing technical assistance to grantees and partners.