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Nzinga A. Harrison, MD, DFAPA, FABAM

Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Author
Eleanor Health
Waltham, Massachusetts

A well-respected physician and educator, Dr. Harrison is the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Eleanor Health, an innovative company built on equity and justice that develops mental health medical homes for individuals affected by opioid and other substance use disorders. As host of the In Recovery weekly podcast by Lemonada Media, she engages a large audience on topics related to addiction. As Co-Founder and Vice-Chair of the Board of Physicians for Criminal Justice Reform, Inc., she leads advocacy at the intersection of health and criminal justice.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in Biology with Spanish and Chemistry minors at Howard University, completed medical school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed General Psychiatry Residency at Emory University. She is Board-Certified in both Adult General Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine and has spent her career treating individuals with Serious Persistent Mental Illness and Addictive Diseases and advocating for stigma reduction, justice and equity in healthcare. Currently, she holds adjunct faculty appointments at the Morehouse School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the newly formed SAMHSA African American/Black Mental Health Center of Excellence, has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the American Society of Addiction Medicine and is Clinical Advisor to Health in Her Hue, a digital platform connect Black women to culturally competent healthcare providers.

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