Barbara Glickstein

Barbara Glickstein is a public health nurse executive, health policy expert and broadcast journalist.

For more than 25 years, she has produced and hosted “Healthstyles,” an award-winning, weekly program on public radio in New York City. Glickstein views her radio program as a public health practice, providing ongoing coverage of issues that make a vital difference in our everyday lives. In addition to her own show, Glickstein is a contributing health reporter on Martha Stewart’s radio show, “Living Today.” Glickstein co-founded and served as Director of the Continuum Center for Health and Healing at Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC, the largest academic integrative health care center in the United States. Her work has been honored many times, including awards from the American Academy of Nursing and the New York City Public Health Association, and the Association of Healing Health Care Projects Leland R. Kaiser Founder’s Award. She is on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Nursing and co-author of “The Role of Media in Influencing Policy: Getting the Message Across in Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care.” Ms. Glickstein is also on the Board of Project Kesher, a women’s advocacy organization working in 160 communities across Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Israel and the United States. Her activism focuses primarily in the areas of health care advocacy, gender inequality, religious and ethnic intolerance, trafficking of women and women’s health.

She was recently chosen by The Women’s Media Center (WMC) as one of 44 participants for the Progressive Women’s Voices program which provides media and spokesperson training to connect media professionals with smart, media-savvy women experts.

She has her BSN in Nursing from New York University College of Nursing and holds a Master in Public Health and a Master in Urban Planning from Columbia University.