Scholar Profile

Latesha K. Harris (UNC-Chapel Hill ’25) graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) School of Nursing with Highest Honors and University Distinction in December 2020. Latesha is a third-year Ph.D. student, a UNC Hillman Scholar in Nursing Innovation, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar, and a Predoctoral T32 Trainee at National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institutes of Nursing Research ([NINR], T32NR007091) in interventions for the prevention and management of chronic illness. Latesha completed her Hillman Clinical Fellowship at UNC Hospitals in an Acute and Intermediate Coronary Care Unit and continues to work clinically as a registered nurse in primary care. Her emerging program of research focuses on women's cardiometabolic health, health inequities, and structural and psychosocial determinants of cardiometabolic disease.