Dr. Harry MacKay

Harry is a Behavioural Science Fellow at the Impact and Innovation Unit within the Privy Council Office, where he will work with partners at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to bring insights from behavioural science to policy design and implementation.

Harry holds a B.A. in Psychology from St. Francis Xavier University, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Carleton University. Prior to this position, Harry completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine where he studied the role of epigenetic mechanisms in the development of brain and behaviour using genome-wide bioinformatic techniques.