Biography
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Craig W. McFarland is a recent graduate of Harvard College, where he studied Neuroscience & Philosophy with a minor in Mind, Brain & Behavior. He is an incoming graduate student at the University of Oxford, where he will study Neuroscience as a Clarendon Scholar and Harvard-UK Fellow.
Craig is a trainee at the Neurotech Justice Accelerator at MGB (NJAM), researcher at the Shen Neurolaw Lab, and serves as a Neuroscience Early Career Policy Ambassador to U.S. Congress through the Society for Neuroscience. At Harvard, Craig served as the President and Founder of the Harvard Ethics Society, Captain of the Harvard Ethics & Bioethics Debate Team, and Chair of Mentorship of the Harvard Neuroscience Undergraduate Society.
He has conducted research in France and Switzerland and across Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. His thesis research on brain morphology, mental illness, and neuroethics has won 14 awards, and he has presented his research across 10 conferences, including Neuroscience 2024, Oxford Global Health & Bioethics International Conference, and the Society for Research in Psychopathology. His research has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Bioethics, AJOB Neuroscience, and the British Medical Journal. Together, his work has motivated his pursuits to pioneer efforts at the intersection of neuroscience, law, and ethics.