Leigh Graham, PhD, MBA is a Senior Advisor and core faculty member at Ariadne Labs, a healthcare delivery innovation center at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Health and The Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is a Research Scientist at Harvard Chan and a Design Critic at the GSD, where she teaches the core planning studio for the Masters in Urban Planning program. At Ariadne, her work focuses on building community health equity across a range of clinical disciplines and in cities around the U.S., using mixed methods including institutional analysis and human-centered design. Recent projects to close racial inequities in health across the lifespan include developing a livable communities framework for birthing people in the U.S., developing a solutions framework to foster belonging and social connection in New York City, and co-designing a communications tool to encourage race dialogues in serious illness care in U.S. health systems.  Leigh is an expert on racial and neighborhood inequities in urban policy and planning, and her scholarship and writing has appeared in peer-reviewed policy journals as well as local and national media. Prior to Harvard, Leigh was a professor at The CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice in NYC. She has a PhD in Urban Studies & Planning from MIT, an MBA from NYU-Stern, and a BA in Sociology from Brandeis University.