Marta Moret

President Emeritus Salovey and his wife, Marta Elisa Moret, have lived in New Haven since they arrived as graduate students more than forty years ago. Ms. Moret, a 1984 graduate of the Yale School of Public Health, is the president of Urban Policy Strategies, LLC, which provides program evaluation and technical assistance to community-based health organizations. 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.

 

Marta Moret received her BA in English Education from Western Connecticut State University in 1973 and an MPH in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale School of Public Health in 1984.