Experts in the News

Given the substantial projected population growth and potential demand increase, Texas should invest in a water system that is resilient, sufficient for safeguarding public health and facilitates sustainable economic growth, wrote public finance fellow Joyce Beebe in a paper commissioned by Texas 2036. 

Saudi Arabia's latest venture "is consistent with the way the Saudis have been using sport over the past five years," said fellow Kristian Ulrichsen "to try to project an image of the new Saudi Arabia, to change the narrative away from Khashoggi and Yemen."

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's absence at the Americas Summit will raise doubts about "his ability to lead the rest of Latin America," said fellow Tony Payan.

Only 85% of Fort Worth kindergartners had a measles vaccine this school year, an apparent symptom of growing vaccine hesitancy and a "worrisome drop," said health policy fellow Peter Hotez. “Once you start getting below 95 you can start seeing breakthrough measles.”

Dr. Huda Zoghbi, a member of the Baker Institute Board of Advisors and Rice Board of Trustees, is a co-recipient of the 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, a prestigious million-dollar award recognizing scientific breakthroughs.