Friday | 22 Nov 2024

Harris Eyre

Harris Eyre MD PhD leads the Neuro-Policy Program and is the Harry Z. Yan and Weiman Gao Senior Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Harris is a scholar and entrepreneur dedicated to fostering awareness, data, tools and leadership for the brain-positive economic transformation aka the brain economy. To do this, he works across public, non-profit, and private sectors. The brain economy represents an objective to halt and reverse the depletion of brain capital (encompassing social, emotional, and cognitive brain resources). Harris serves as a senior fellow at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute and provides advisory expertise to organizations such as the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association, the MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Cancer Neuroscience Program, the Business Collaborative for Brain Health, the Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. He is an adjunct with the University of California San Francisco. Harris also assumes a leadership position at the Brain Capital Alliance and is a member of the Champion’s Cabinet of the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative. Eyre has had a career in health care business where he has held senior positions in sales, product development, and dilutive and non-dilutive capital-raising efforts. Eyre is an alumnus of the Forbes 30 Under 30 and the Fulbright Scholar program. He has garnered recognition with the prestigious EB1A Green Card, an honor typically reserved for Nobel and Pulitzer prize winners. He has authored over 200 papers in journals such as The Lancet Neurology, Neuron, World Psychiatry, The Brookings Institutions Policy Paper Series, and served as the lead editor of the book ‘Convergence Mental Health’ (Oxford Press).

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