Brendan McCarthy has been the National Adviser on Medical Ethics and Health and Social Care Policy for the Church of England since 2009. He has been a member of the Government's Places of Worship Taskforce as well as adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the House of Bishops. In 2021, he was awarded the Canterbury Cross for Services to the Church of England during the Covid-19 pandemic. He lives in Omagh, County Tyrone.
