Latesha K. Harris is a registered nurse and nurse scientist focused on understanding and addressing health inequities among historically underserved populations, particularly Black women. She is a clinical associate at Duke University School of Nursing and a postdoctoral fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program. She is also a fellow in the Nursing Science Incubator for Social Determinants of Health Solutions at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Harris’s interdisciplinary research examines resilience, psychosocial stress, structural inequities, and their effects on health across the life course. A sampling of her scholarship includes work on cardiovascular disease risk among young Black women published in Ethnicity and Health, research on police violence and Black women’s health in The Journal of Nurse Practitioners, analysis of psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in SSM Mental Health, and studies of spiritual experiences and cardiometabolic risk in midlife Black women published in Menopause.
Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Nursing Research, the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars program. Professional updates are available on LinkedIn.
Latesha K. Harris is a registered nurse and nurse scientist focused on understanding and addressing health inequities among historically underserved populations, particularly Black women. She is a clinical associate at Duke University School of Nursing and a postdoctoral fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program. She is also a fellow in the Nursing Science Incubator for Social Determinants of Health Solutions at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Harris’s interdisciplinary research examines resilience, psychosocial stress, structural inequities, and their effects on health across the life course. A sampling of her scholarship includes work on cardiovascular disease risk among young Black women published in Ethnicity and Health, research on police violence and Black women’s health in The Journal of Nurse Practitioners, analysis of psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in SSM Mental Health, and studies of spiritual experiences and cardiometabolic risk in midlife Black women published in Menopause.
Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Nursing Research, the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars program. Professional updates are available on LinkedIn.
As a nurse, I have been with patients during their first breath and their last. While with grieving families, one statement that stays with me is, “At least now she/he can rest.”
This statement almost always comes from a grieving Black family who lost a family member to a premature death of a preventable or manageable disease. Why must we wait until we are six feet under to rest?
As a Black …
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