Magalie Joseph is a Registered Professional Nurse, community Health Nurse, advocate with expertise in maternal/child, pediatric and home visiting. Magalie worked as a Nurse Home Visitor and is currently the Nurse Supervisor for the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) program in Brooklyn NY. NFP is an evidence-based community health program that pairs first-time mothers with Registered Nurses from early pregnancy through the child’s second birthday. The program has provided and continues to provide home visiting services for thousands of women, children and families to ensure they have healthy pregnancy and healthy baby.
Magalie has over 30 years of hospital and community health experience in clinical care, health education, care coordination, preventive health, advocacy and program leadership. She believes that nurses are on the frontlines of prevention efforts aimed at reducing maternal mortality and achieving better pregnancy outcomes for the most underserved populations. Magalie advocated on behalf of the Nurse-Family Partnership program along Senator Schumer and other maternal health champions from across the New York State who support the maternal health provisions in the Build Back Better Act. These provisions are critical in addressing social determinants of health, funding community –based organizations, growing and diversifying the perinatal workforce and improving data collection processes.
In June 2022, Magalie Joseph received an advocate of the year award from the National Service Office of Nurse-Family Partnership and Child First after participating in their largest policy and advocacy summit in Washington DC. This advocacy effort was for the timely reauthorization of the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program (MIECHV) to ensure that families across the country continue to receive essential home visiting services.
Magalie is committed to actively supporting families, empowering them to advocate for themselves in order to receive safe and respectful care for better birth outcomes. She has a Bachelor degree in Nursing from St Joseph College and a Master’s in Social Work for Touro University. Magalie believes these two degrees naturally overlap with public health on many mutual issues and concerns such as engaging in intervention aimed at addressing social determinants of health, achieving social justice and improving quality of life.