Tyler Harvey

Tyler D. Harvey is a social scientist and MD/PhD candidate at the Yale School of Medicine.

Previously, Tyler was a Thomas J. Watson fellow where they completed an international fellowship across six diverse low-income countries titled, "Embodied Poverty: Experiences and Voices of the Poor, Sick, and Surviving." As a graduate student in public health, Tyler served as the Executive Director of HAVEN Free Clinic, a student-run primary health care clinic that partners with Yale to provide services to the New Haven community free of charge. Most recently, Tyler was the Center Administrator at the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, an academic center focused on addressing the health harms of mass incarceration.

At Yale, Tyler is a student leader of the US Health Justice elective and a student advisor to the Health Equity Thread within the Yale School of Medicine curriculum. Tyler is also currently a research fellow with the Yale LGBTQ+ Mental Health Initiative and the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at the Yale Law School. Between 2023 - 2024, they served as a representative on the Presidential Search Student Advisory Council for Yale's next President.

Tyler sees medicine and science as tools to liberate and uplift the most marginalized communities. Specifically, their research examine structural determinants of health and evaluates clinical and public health interventions aimed at eliminating health inequities for LGBTQ+ populations. This work has been published in leading medical and public health journals, such as JAMA Network Open, LGBT Health, and Social Science and Medicine and has been used alongside work with local and international agencies, including the NYC Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice and World Health Organization. Tyler was previously a Public Voices Fellow with TheOpEdProject in partnership with AcademyHealth, publishing numerous opinion pieces on health equity in top media outlets, including The Hill and Newsweek.

Originally from the rural South, Tyler is a first-generation college graduate and holds a BA in Urban Studies from Rhodes College and MPH from the Yale School of Public Health.