Latesha K. Harris is a registered nurse and nurse scientist focused on advancing health equity for 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. Her work appears in leading peer-reviewed journals, including The American Psychologist, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Ethnicity and Health, SSM Mental Health, and The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. She is a contributing author to the edited volume Black Women and Resilience Power Perseverance and Public Health, published by SUNY Press, and has published widely on topics such as police violence and Black women’s health, cardiovascular disease risk, and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 advancing health equity for 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. Her work appears in leading peer-reviewed journals, including The American Psychologist, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Ethnicity and Health, SSM Mental Health, and The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. She is a contributing author to the edited volume Black Women and Resilience Power Perseverance and Public Health, published by SUNY Press, and has published widely on topics such as police violence and Black women's health, cardiovascular disease risk, and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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