Massachusetts General Brigham

NJAM will leverage the combined resources of Massachusetts General Brigham (MGB) and Harvard University’s brain science, medicine, ethics, law, and policy communities. By partnering with local community groups and various stakeholders, NJAM aims to develop a training program focused on addressing unmet needs to drive advancements in neuroscience and society. NJAM will support training programs focused on: (1) Improving neurotechnology use in clinical contexts, (2) interdisciplinary neurolaw, and (3) community partnerships and advocacy.  

This grant supports the Dana NextGen objectives to (1) prepare trainees at early career stages to think critically and reflexively about the ethical, legal, and societal implications raised by real-world neuroscience applications through experiential learning and innovative curricula; (2) strengthen workforce development for careers within academia and beyond, empowering a new generation of scholars in neuroscience and society who will shepherd neuroscience’s positive role in the world; and (3) encourage rigorous, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary work between neuroscience and non-science disciplines to solve complex problems that cannot be answered by neuroscience alone.