Omar Sultan Haque, M.D., Ph.D.

Senior Advisor

Omar Sultan Haque is a psychiatrist and philosopher interested in how cultural, political, and religious worldviews impact mental health and medical education, treatment, and outcomes. He is a researcher at the Harvard Medical School Program in Psychiatry and the Law, and the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard, serves on the Harvard Council on Academic Freedom, and is a clinical psychiatrist with a focus on major depressive disorder and metabolic disorders. Previously, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and six times received a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University. He studied at Harvard, Yale, and Brown University, and did a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Psychology at Harvard with Professor Steven Pinker. He was awarded the Peter J. Gomes, STB '68 Distinguished Alumni Honor from Harvard Divinity School.