Hartley Feld, PhD, MSN, RN, PHCNS-BC

Associate Professor, Chair of Global Health

Dr. Hartley Feld received her PhD from the University of Kentucky in 2018 as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. Dr. Feld also received her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Kentucky in 2007 in Community and Public Health Nursing. She is ANCC board certified as a public health clinical nurse specialist and a Fellow in the Center for Inter-Professional Education. Dr. Feld is currently a BIRCWH scholar (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health) funded by the NIH, a mentored award where her research is focused on reproductive and perinatal health equity and harm reduction for people with a substance use disorder.
Dr. Feld is also the Chair of Global Affairs, with a focus on student engagement in global health. She co-leads the Inter-professional Global Health Course every spring, with students across the health colleges and remotely from Quito, Ecuador. Dr. Feld has been leading inter-professional service-learning experiences to Santo Domingo, Ecuador as part of Shoulder to Shoulder Global since 2009. She also creates and promotes numerous global learning opportunities for nursing students through Education Abroad. In addition to her BIRCWH funded research, she has expertise and interest in upstream determinants of Maternal and Child Health, global health, social and structural determinants of health, gender-based violence, recovery capital and health equity. She is also an active member of the Perinatal Research and Wellness Center team and serves on the Lexington-Fayette County Board of Health.

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