The Brain Capital Alliance has outlined in a letter to Lancet Neurology how brain capital, an economic asset integrating brain health and skills, is vital to the United Nations’ (UN) post-Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda. Brain capital offers a new approach to centralizing human contributions to the economy.
Coauthors of the Lancet Neurology paper included: Harris A. Eyre MD PhD, Fellow with Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and Senior Fellow with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, William Hynes, adjunct professor with University College London and the Santa Fe Institute, Hon Facundo Manes MD, Founder of the INECO Foundation and Argentine Congressman, and Pawel Swieboda, Founder of Neurocentury and Senior Visiting Fellow with the European Policy Centre.
Link to the paper: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(24)00031-0/fulltext