About

Omar Sultan Haque is a psychologist and physician, and is an Instructor and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and in the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Harvard Medical School.  He is a co-Director of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, American Unit.  His research investigates questions at the intersection of psychology, medicine, religion, and morality.

He graduated from Brown University, magna cum laude, with a Sc.B. in Neuroscience and an A.B. in Religious Studies (with honors), from Harvard Divinity School with an M.T.S., and from Harvard Medical School with an M.D. with scholarly concentrations in Neurology and Medical Ethics (with honors), where he was a member of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society.

At Harvard and Brown, he has taught in the Departments of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Religion, and has received a number of awards for his teaching and mentoring, including receiving 4-times a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University.

His work has been presented at the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP), Cognitive Science Society (CSS), Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI), Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), International Academy of Law and Mental Health (IALMH), Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC), and at Brown University, Dartmouth Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Law School, Oxford University, Penn State University, and University of Haifa Faculty of Law.

His research and training has been supported by a number of awards, grants and fellowships, including from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Nancy Lurie Marks Foundation, Tylenol Foundation, Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard Pluralism Project, Louis E. Kirstein Fellowship form the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, Michael Crichton Fellowship in Medical Anthropology from the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Centre for Anthropology and Mind at Oxford University.

His work has been covered by and appeared in a number of media venues, including the BBC, Boston Globe, Businessweek, Los Angeles Times, New Republic, NPR, Scientific American, and Harvard Magazine.