Omar Sultan Haque is a psychiatrist and philosopher who studies empirical and normative questions ranging across medicine, psychology, religion, bioethics, and law.
Dr. Haque is a member of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Harvard Medical School and of the Harvard Council on Academic Freedom. He serves on the Board of Directors of Justice Health Initiative, Inc., a Boston-based non-profit organization that brings children in resource-limited nations to Boston for advanced surgical and medical care for severe and rare diseases. (Views expressed here are his alone, and do not represent any other organization or group to which he is affiliated).
His biomedical training includes degrees in neuroscience (Sc.B., Brown), medicine (M.D., Harvard), board certifications from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Obesity Medicine, and training in noninvasive brain stimulation with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Dr. Haque’s humanities training includes degrees in the study of religion, philosophy, and theology (A.B., Ph.D., Brown; S.T.M., Yale; M.T.S., Harvard). As a social scientist, he did a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Psychology at Harvard with Professor Steven Pinker (2010-2013). He was awarded the Peter J. Gomes, STB '68 Distinguished Alumni Honor from Harvard Divinity School (2021).
At Harvard, Dr. Haque has received a number of awards for his teaching, including receiving six times a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University, and for "Excellence in the Art of Teaching" for Supervision of a Harvard College Thomas T. Hoopes Prize-winning Senior Thesis (Anthropology) awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
He has published a numerous papers, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet Psychiatry, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, as well as magazine articles for Scientific American, Wired Magazine, and The New Republic.
Dr. Haque’s work and ideas have been covered in a number of international media venues, including the New York Times, Science Magazine, Harvard Magazine, Harvard Gazette, BBC, Atlantic Monthly, NPR, New York Magazine, NBC, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, Washington Post, Runner's World, and Radiolab. For his work on improving patient care he was profiled in the Boston Globe.