Harriet Teare

Dr Harriet Teare is a multidisciplinary researcher interested in the future of healthcare, in a system that focuses on enabling health rather than disease management. She originally trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford, before embarking on a career at the interface between research and policy, first at Cancer Research UK, then as an empirical researcher, then Deputy Director, at the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX), and most recently as a Research Leader at RAND Europe (an independent not-for-profit research organisation). As Programme Director for UK SPINE, Harriet draws on these experiences to consider how to support translational medicine for healthy ageing, to improve healthspan by supporting better treatment of multiple long-term conditions.