Tylah Harrison

Tylah Harrison, originally from Durham, North Carolina, graduated in May 2023 with a B.S.P.H. in Health Policy and Management and a minor in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Always interested in the intersection of public health and medicine, Tylah is passionate about addressing the social determinants of health in marginalized communities that are disproportionately burdened by chronic disease. As an undergraduate student, she explored interventions to address food insecurity among hypertensive adults as a research assistant, studied the politics of school nutrition and universal free meal campaigns in the U.S., and completed an internship with the CDC Division of Diabetes Translation. Tylah hopes to increase her knowledge about the national and community-level efforts currently underway to address poverty and food insecurity, and identify new avenues for healthcare professionals to be involved as advocates.

Field placement: Just Harvest

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Policy placement: Center for Law and Social Policy

Washington, D.C.