Lena Harvey
Co-Founder · Principal Consultant, Community Development & Innovation
Community-development leader, patient advocate, and founder of Queen Warrior LLC, advancing sickle cell awareness, outreach, and research.
We’ve seen where care breaks down.We’ve lived what it costs.
Precision Health Nexus, LLP combines clinical expertise and lived patient experience to help health systems, public-health partners, and industry teams build more equitable, patient-centered care for chronic illness and rare disease.
The Evidence
The gap is documented. It has been documented for decades.
100,000
Americans living with sickle cell disease
CDC
$943
Research funding per sickle cell patient, against $10,000+ per cystic fibrosis patient
JAMA Network Open, 2020
4
Approved treatments developed in over a century since the disease was identified
CDC
2+ hrs
Typical emergency wait for sickle cell patients, against a guideline of one hour
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
The Founders
Two practitioners. Both sides of one chart.
Jade Parker-Dinkins and Lena Harvey met as children at a sickle cell camp in Indiana. They reconnected in 2018 — by then one had become a nurse and the other a patient advocate.
Jade Parker-Dinkins, BSN, RN, CRRN
Co-Founder · Principal Clinical Innovation Consultant
Registered nurse, clinical researcher, and quality-improvement leader with more than a decade of clinical nursing and over twenty years of patient advocacy.
Our Approach
Trust, then equity, then innovation. In that order.
Trust
We start where credibility is built: with the communities your system has failed, and with the staff delivering care inside constraints they did not design.
Equity
Commitments become operational change only when they are measured. We build the measurement.
Innovation
We build what outlasts the engagement. Systems your team runs without us.
In the Press
Stories behind the work.
WFYI / NPR
The story of Jade and Lena, friends who refused to let sickle cell win
Mirror Indy
Sickle cell patients face stigma and medical racism while advocating for themselves
Versiti
Lena Harvey — Impact Stories
IU Health
Former Riley patient is now IU Health’s first adult sickle cell nurse navigator
Indiana Minority Business Magazine