Morgan Healy

Morgan Healy, PhD, is an applied, interdisciplinary researcher focused on improving the scale-up, quality and sustainability of global early childhood programs and policies. Prior to joining NIEER, Morgan worked as an SRCD/AAAS U.S. Executive Branch Policy Fellow at the Office of Head Start in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services where she supported national early years mental health and workforce policy development and implementation. With the support of the Gates-Cambridge Scholarship from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Morgan completed her PhD in Early Childhood Development & Program Evaluation at the University of Cambridge, U.K., in July 2024. Her dissertation research explored the mechanisms and differential effectiveness of two scaled home-visiting programs in the UK and Brazil. Prior to her PhD, Morgan worked at the Harvard David Rockefeller Office in Sao Paulo, Brazil on early childhood programming, and as a Bloomberg Fellow for the Mayor of Baton Rouge on the city's Cradle to K Parenting Initiative. She received her Master's in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2019 and completed a Fulbright in Belo Horizonte Brazil in 2018. 

PhD, Early Childhood Development & Program Evaluation, University of Cambridge

MA, International Education Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education 

BA, History and Secondary Education, Boston College