Holly M. Harner
Associate Professor
Public Health
La Salle University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Harner is an associate professor and director of the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program. She is also a women’s health nurse scientist and a nationally certified Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner (WHCNP-BC). She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (2001) in the area of forensic mental health and she completed additional training, receiving a Master of Public Health (MPH) focusing in Family and Community Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (2002) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from La Salle University (2014). Throughout her career, Dr. Harner has focused her research and clinical practice on women undergoing extraordinary stress: inpatient psychiatric treatment, adolescent pregnancy, pregnancy termination, and incarceration. She completed one year of post-doctoral training as a fully-funded Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Harner’s scholarship addresses gender-related health disparities with a specific emphasis on women’s mental health and violence. She is particularly interested in examining the role of childhood physical and sexual trauma as a pathway to incarceration for women.
Research Interest
Nursing, Public health, Women’s health, Women and incarceration, Violence prevention
Publications
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Harner HM, Budescu M, Gillihan SJ, Riley S, Foa EB. Posttraumatic stress disorder in incarcerated women: A call for evidence-based treatment. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 2015 Jan;7(1):58.
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Harner HM, Riley S. Factors contributing to poor physical health in incarcerated women. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved. 2013;24(2):788-801.
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Harner HM, Budescu M. Sleep quality and risk for sleep apnea in incarcerated women. Nursing research. 2014 May;63(3):158.
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Harner H. Improving the Care of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing. 2014 Jul 1;43(4):507-8.
