Michael Brett McCarty

Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke School of Medicine
Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics & Associate Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative, Duke Divinity School

I hold a dual appointment in the School of Medicine's Department of Population Health Sciences and Duke Divinity School. My primary areas of scholarship include addiction and community engagement, bioethics, political theology, public health, and theological ethics. My current research projects focus on competing conceptions of agency within the modern hospital, religious responses to the opioid crisis, and developing new interdisciplinary work at the intersection of theology and public health.

Areas of Expertise: Addiction and Community Engagement, Bioethics, Qualitative Research, Political Theology, and Theological Ethics