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Jamie Harvie is an accomplished living systems and impact consultant working at the leading edge of institutional and organizational change. He applies an ecological, nature-based approach at the intersection of health, community and environment.

Jamie led the successful coordination and passage of mercury legislation and phase out of healthcare mercury products nationally. He founded and directed the Healthy Food in Health Care campaign and credited with raising the alarm and initiating the transformation of healthcare food policy and practice to sustainable, healthy foods in the US. Jamie was selected as a Businesses Aligned for Local Living Economies (BALLE) Fellow and helped launch The Food Commons, a functional agroecological economic stewardship model. 

Jamie has received numerous awards for contributions to ecological health including recognition from the Natural Resources Defense Council thought Leader award for his work on sustainable food systems and health care. He received the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Achievement Award from the Minnesota Public Health Association for life time achievement and contributions. 

His work is published widely for journals including the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and is a contributor to textbooks including Integrative Medicine. Jamie is the founder of the One Sacred Earth Project, Commons Health and served as founding Executive Director and President of the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI).

His recent publications include:

• “Integrative Strategies for Planetary Health,” with Sudak, N., in: Rakel, D., Minichiello, V. (eds), Integrative Medicine 5th Ed., Elsevier Press, 2022

•  “Psychedelics and Health: A Sacred Economics Path to Restoring Wholeness”, Not For Profit Quarterly, 2022

• “Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Holistic Thinking,” with Guarneri, E., in: Al-Delaimy, W., Ramanathan, V., Sánchez Sorondo, M. (eds), Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility. Springer, Cham. 2020

• Early Lessons From The Food Commons: A New Economic Whole System Approach for Regional Food. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 9(A), 77–86. 2019

In his free time Jamie can be found on mountain tops or skiing through the woods.