Laura Latta

Director of Early Childhood Initiatives

Family League of Baltimore

Laura Latta is a leader in the fight to reduce infant mortality in Baltimore.

In her job with the Family League, a nonprofit that coordinates and funds programs to help the city’s children, and as a member of the leadership team at B-more for Healthy Babies, the Baltimore native oversees five key initiatives, including a city-wide home-visiting strategy for pregnant women that she helped develop.

Her expertise in the field is evidenced by the articles she has published in such journals as the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, and her popularity as a speaker at numerous conferences, including the National Leadership Conference for Healthy Families America.

Latta, who holds an MHS degree in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said she is “enormously proud” of her work.

“Through an intensive and complex collaborative process involving numerous stakeholders throughout Baltimore City, I have succeeded in putting policies and practices into place that directly improve health outcomes for hundreds of at-risk women in Baltimore, while contributing to better outcomes for newborns,” she said. “We are fostering sustainable, population-level changes around infant mortality in Baltimore and setting up more families to thrive.”