Quianta Moore, MD, JD

Quianta Moore MD, JD, is the Executive Director of The Hackett Center for Mental Health and the Executive Vice President of Health Equity at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute. Under Dr. Moore’s leadership, The Hackett Center is focused on creating transformative change for mental and relational health by co-creating evidence-based, community-informed policies, programs, and practices and bringing them to scale. For example, she secured a $15 million dollar investment in Harris county to create a mental and behavioral initiative that meets the rising demand of access to mental health services for youth. Dr. Moore also serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Moore is the owner and founder of Catapult Dreams, LLC where she helps funders and non-profits enhance their social impact through evaluation, coaching, capacity building and strategic planning.

Dr. Moore is an experienced action-oritented researcher who has designed and conducted large-scale, statewide evaluations of mental health initiatives and early childhood programs. Her research uses rigorous methods to answer important questions that then inform the design of policies and programs that have real impact on people and the communities in which they reside. For example, her work has resulted in mulit- million dollar investments in historically under resourced communites.

Dr. Moore has dedicated her professional life to advancing health equity and protecting the future of the next generation through promoting early brain health, which is vital to breaking generational poverty and to the future economic prosperity of our country. She is the creator of Brain Builders, a parenting program that focuses on improving early brain development and builds social cohesion among moms, both of which improve health and economic outcomes.

Dr. Moore previously served as the Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy where she created and led the Child Health Policy Program. She received an MD from Baylor College of Medicine, a JD from the University of Houston Law Center, and a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Cornell University.

Dr. Moore was given a proclamation by Mayor Sylvester Turner acknowledging the impact of her work in the greater Houston area and is also a Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary Research Leader.

In her personal life, Quianta is active in her church, spends time with her loved ones, including 3 active teenagers and is passionate about living a life of service and gratitude.