Dr. Heather Harvey received her Doctorate in Public Health from the University of South Carolina in 1999. She then received a Haynes-Fulbright to Malaysia & Singapore in 2007 which led to almost two decades of international work serving on the faculty at several universities and medical schools in the US, West Indies and the Middle East. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications and has presented at international conferences in China, Spain, Dubai & Bulgaria. She also developed specialized curriculums as an educational consultant in Thailand, Jordan & Saudi Arabia. She returned to the US in 2021 to focus on current public health needs and was involved in a CDC-funded grant on vaccine hesitancy in South Carolina and is currently an Associate Professor and the Associate Course Director for Public Health and Preventative Medicine at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Montana.

Education

• DrPH, University of South Carolina

Research

Research interests: broadly in public health and epidemiology, with specific interests in mental health, suicide, metabolic syndromes, and Native American health.