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Jeffrey E. Harris, an economist and physician, appears to be the first person to have obtained both an MD (University of Pennsylvania, 1974) and a PhD in Economics (University of Pennsylvania, 1975). Harris has been a professor in the MIT Department of Economics since 1977. Having trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (1974-1977), he maintained a medical practice at that institution until 2006. Since then, he has continued to practice as an internist at federally sponsored community health centers in Rhode Island, where the majority of his patients have poverty-level incomes and are not fluent in English.

Public Service

Harris has served as Consulting Scientific Editor, Contributor, and Senior Reviewer to numerous U.S. Surgeon General's Reports on Smoking and Health (1979–1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1996). He has served as a member of several committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, including the Diesel Impacts Study Committee, the Committee to Study the Prevention of Low Birth Weight, the Committee on National Strategies toward Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, the Committee on Risk Characterization, and the Committee on Reducing Tobacco Use. Harris has served as consultant to numerous governmental agencies, including the U.S. National Cancer Institute, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Minnesota Attorney General, New York City Department of Health, New Hampshire Association of Counties, the Attorney General of Canada, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Safety Commission. He has consulted for numerous nonprofit public interest organizations, including the American Cancer Society. He has also served as a physician member of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine (1978-1980).

Expert Testimony

Harris has given invited testimony before the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives; the Committee of the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives; the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee; the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture; the U.S. Senate Democratic Task Force; and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In 2003, he gave expert testimony in Price v. Philip Morris, a class-action lawsuit alleging fraud in the marketing and sale concerning light cigarettes, in which the trial court entered a $10.1 billion judgment against the defendant. In 2004, he gave expert testimony in United States v. Philip Morris et al., in which the trial court found that tobacco manufacturers had violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Harris has offered expert testimony in numerous other cases involving the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries.

Research

Harris has published widely on smoking and health, the economics of smoking and public policy toward the tobacco industry, HIV/AIDS, health economics, as well as economics and statistics generally. He is author of Deadly Choices: Coping with Health Risks in Everyday Life.

Hispanic Collaborations

Since he spent the summer of 2005 in a community health center in Guatemala, Harris has developed numerous connections with researchers and policy makers throughout the Spanish-speaking world. He has served as visiting faculty and has given lectures, principally in Spanish, in Guatemala (Universidad Francisco Marroquin), Mexico (Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública), the Dominican Republic (Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago), Spain (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, University of La Laguna, University of Salamanca, Pompeu Fabra University), Costa Rica (Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud, University of Costa Rica), Uruguay (Fondo Nacional de Recursos, University of the Republic) and Chile (University of Chile, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). In 2008, Harris was named Huésped Distinguido (Distinguished Guest and Honorary Citizen), City of Salamanca, Spain. In 2011, he received a Fulbright Specialist Award from the U.S. Department of State to establish collaborative connections with academic colleagues in Uruguay. His recent collaborative research work includes studies of physician specialty choice in Spain and the evaluation of Uruguay's tobacco control campaign. Since 2013, he has embarked on a series of collaborative projects in Chile sponsored by the MIT Sloan Latin America Office and the MIT MISTI/Chile Program.

References

  1. An archive of publications, presentations and expert testimony is at http://mit.edu/jeffrey/harris/
  2. Others who subsequently earned both an MD and PhD in Economics include: Marcella Alsan, Jay Bhattacharya, David Chan, Allan S. Detsky, Alan M. Garber, Anupam Jena, Mark B. McClellan, David O. Meltzer, Ashwin Patel (PhD in Health Economics), Andrew D. Racine, and Benjamin Sommers (PhD in Health Policy).
  3. Although the judgment was vacated by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2005, the case has been recently revived and is currently pending appeal.
  4. Harris JE. Cigarette Smoking in the United States, 1950-1978, in Smoking and Health, A Report of the Surgeon General (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1979): A1-A29.
  5. Harris JE. "Trends in Smoking-Attributable Mortality," Chapter 3 in: Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking, 25 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1989): 117-169.
  6. Harris JE. Cigarette Smoking Among Successive Birth Cohorts of Men and Women in the United States During 1900-80. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1983; 71: 473-79.
  7. Harris JE. Cigarette Smoke Components and Disease: Cigarette Smoke is Far More Than a Triad of 'Tar,' Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide. NCI Smoking and Tobacco Control Monographs 1996; 7 (Chapt. 5): 59-75.
  8. Harris JE. Smoke Yields of Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines in Relation to FTC Tar Level and Cigarette Manufacturer: Analysis of the Massachusetts Benchmark Study. Public Health Reports 2001 (July-Aug); 116: 336-343.
  9. Harris JE, Thun MJ, Mondul AM, Calle EE. Cigarette Tar Yields in Relation to Mortality from Lung Cancer in the Cancer Prevention Study II Prospective Cohort, 1982-8. British Medical Journal 2004 (10 Jan); 328: 72-76.
  10. Harris JE. Incomplete Compensation Does Not Imply Reduced Harm: Yields of 40 Smoke Toxicants per Milligram Nicotine in Regular Filter versus Low Tar Cigarettes in the 1999 Massachusetts Benchmark Study. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 2004 (October); 6: 797-807.
  11. Harris JE, Public Policy Issues in the Promotion of Less Hazardous Cigarettes, in Gio Gori and Fred Bock, eds., A Safe Cigarette? Banbury Report 3. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1980: 333-40.
  12. Harris JE. Taxing Tar and Nicotine, American Economic Review 1980; 70: 300-11.
  13. Harris JE. Increasing the Federal Excise Tax on Cigarettes. Journal of Health Economics 1982; 1: 117-20.
  14. Harris JE. The 1983 Increase in the Federal Excise Tax on Cigarettes. Tax Policy and the Economy 1987; 1: 87-111.
  15. Harris JE, Connolly GN, Brooks D, et al. Cigarette Smoking Before and After an Excise-Tax Increase and Anti-Smoking Campaign - Massachusetts, 1990-1996. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1996; 45: 966-70.
  16. Harris JE. American Cigarette Manufacturers' Ability to Pay Damages: Overview and a Rough Calculation. Tobacco Control 1996; 5: 292-294.
  17. Harris JE, Chan SW. The Continuum of Addiction: Cigarette Smoking in Relation to Price Among Americans Aged 15-29. Health Economics Letters 1998; 2:3-12. Reprinted in Health Economics, 1999; 8: 81-86.
  18. Biener L, Harris JE, Hamilton W. Impact of the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Programme: Population Based Trend Analysis. British Medical Journal 2000 (5 Aug); 321: 351-354.
  19. Harris JE, López-Valcárcel BG. Asymmetric peer effects in the analysis of cigarette smoking among young people in the United States, 1992-1999. Journal of Health Economics, 2008; 27: 249-264.
  20. Harris JE. Improved Short-Term Survival of AIDS Patients Initially Diagnosed with Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia, 1984 through 1987. Journal of the American Medical Association 1990; 263: 397-402.
  21. Harris JE. Reporting Delays and the Incidence of AIDS. Journal of the American Statistical Association 1990; 85: 915-24.
  22. Harris JE. Why We Don't Have an AIDS Vaccine, and How We Can Develop One. Health Affairs 2009; 28(6):1642-54.
  23. Bautista-Arredondo S, Gadsden P, Harris JE, Bertozzi SM, Optimizing Resource Allocation for HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs: An Analytical Framework. AIDS 2008; 22(suppl 2):S1-S8.
  24. Harris JE. The Internal Organization of Hospitals: Some Economic Implications. Bell Journal of Economics 1977; 8: 467-82.
  25. Harris JE, Regulation and Internal Control in Hospitals, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 1979; 55: 88-103.
  26. Harris JE. Pricing Rules for Hospitals. Bell Journal of Economics 1979; 10: 224-43.
  27. Harris JE, Prenatal Medical Care and Infant Mortality, in Victor Fuchs ed., Economic Aspects of Health. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982: 15-52.
  28. Harris JE, Macro-Experiments Versus Micro-Experiments for Health Policy, in: Jerry Hausman and David Wise, eds., Social Experimentation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985: 145-85.
  29. Harris JE, How Many Doctors are Enough? Health Affairs 1986; 5: 73-83.
  30. Sosa-Rubí S, Galárraga O, Harris JE. Heterogeneous Impact of the "Seguro Popular" Program on the Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Mexico, 2001-2006: A Multinomial Probit Model with a Discrete Endogenous Variable. Journal of Health Economics 2009; 28: 20-34.
  31. Williamson O, Wachter M, Harris JE, Understanding the Employment Relation: The Analysis of Idiosyncratic Exchange. Bell Journal of Economics 1975; 6: 250-78.
  32. DuMouchel WH, Harris JE. Bayes Methods for Combining the Results of Cancer Studies in Humans and Other Species Journal of the American Statistical Association 1983; 78: 293-308, Rejoinder 313-15.
  33. Harris JE, Deadly Choices: Coping with Health Risks in Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books, 1993: 269pp. ISBN 0-465-02889-6.
  34. Harris JE, López-Valcárcel BG, Ortún V, Barber P. Specialty choice in times of economic crisis: a cross-sectional survey of Spanish medical students. BMJ Open 2013; 3:e002051.
  35. López-Valcárcel BG, Ortún V, Barber P, Harris JE, García B. Ranking Spain's Medical Schools by their performance in the national residency examination. Revista Clínica Española 2013 (Dec); 213(9):428-34.
  36. López-Valcárcel BG, Ortún V, Barber P, Harris JE. Importantes diferencias entre Facultades de Medicina. Implicaciones para la Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria. Atención Primaria 2014(3):140-6.
  37. Harris JE, López-Valcárcel BG, Ortún V, Barber P. Efficiency versus Equity in the Allocation of Medical Specialty Training Positions in Spain: A Health Policy Simulation Based on a Discrete Choice Model. National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 19896, February 2014.
  38. Abascal W, Esteves E, Goja B, González Mora F, Lorenzo A, Sica A, Triunfo P, Harris JE. Tobacco control campaign in Uruguay: a population-based trend analysis. Lancet 2012; 380(9853): 1575-1582.
  39. Harris JE, Balsa AI, Triunfo P. Campaña antitabaco en Uruguay: Impacto en la decisión de dejar de fumar durante el embarazo y en el peso al nacer: Universidad de Montevideo Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Working paper UM_CEE 2014-01.
  40. Harris JE, Balsa AI, Triunfo P. Tobacco Control Campaign in Uruguay: Impact on Smoking Cessation during Pregnancy. National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 19878, January 2014.
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