Our Team

Jamie Hart, PhD, MPH

CECA Executive Director

Jamie has 20+ years of experience partnering with a wide range of Federal agencies, states, and foundations with the goal of achieving health equity. She is particularly known for her ability to pull together diverse public and private stakeholders, build consensus, and help groups use evidence and expert opinion to guide program and policy decisions. As one of the original founders and Executive Director at CECA, Jamie shapes and implements CECA’s overall strategy, fosters strategic partnerships, and manages operations and staff. She brings specific expertise in using frameworks for sexual and reproductive health equity and wellbeing to reform policy, research, and clinical practice in accordance with the values and goals of equity and justice. 

Jamie has designed and facilitated numerous convenings, for example, to develop and implement shared measurement to expand sexual and reproductive health services equitably and to evolve the preconception health framework to center reproductive and sexual health equity. She also led a series of expert and workgroup meetings to assist with development of, and subsequent updates to, Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs. She has conducted extensive research related to sexual and reproductive health by exploring the barriers and facilitators to accessing prevention and care services faced by Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), women veterans, transgender women, and couples—and the providers and systems that serve them. 

Jamie completed her graduate work at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation research focused on the historical context of sexual and reproductive health care and reproductive justice for African American women.