Eva Harris (born August 6, 1965) is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley,[1] and the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute.
Harris is currently initiating studies of dengue pathogenesis in humans, focusing on functional characterization of antibodies and B cell memory response, host gene expression profiling, and viral factors such as quasispecies.
Harris is also collaborating with investigators at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering to develop the ImmunoSensor: a novel, rapid, low-cost diagnostic device for point-of-care diagnosis of dengue and other infectious diseases.
In 2004, she founded a pediatric cohort in Managua, Nicaragua, with the objective of investigating the epidemiological and immunological behavior of dengue and contributing to the construction of the natural history of the virus.
[citation needed] This cohort was of utmost importance during the introduction of new arboviruses in Latin America, managing to describe the epidemiological dynamics of Chikungunya and Zika in Nicaragua.