Faith-Based Health Justice in Times of Global Trauma and Transformation

June 15, 2021
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EDT
Location: Online Zoom Webinar

Charity alone can provide but a fraction of an answer to the global health challenges of the twenty-first century. Faith-Based Health Justice: Transforming Agendas of Faith Communities (2021), a new volume discussing faith and health justice today, has raised such questions. Providing new empirical examples and developing theoretical discussions from contexts around the globe, this edited collection is an important contribution to further discussion on a vital but understudied issue.

This event gathered academics and practitioners to share knowledge and reflect and build on the findings presented in the book. Through an understanding of faith-based health justice, which has now entered the era of a global pandemic, speakers explored reflections on the health traumas we are witnessing and the opportunities such a rupture creates for transforming fragile and fragmented forms of health justice from a faith-based lens. Katherine Marshall, senior fellow at the Berkley Center, gave a keynote speech. Dr. Josephine Sundqvist, secretary-general of LM International, moderated. The full program is available here.

This event was co-sponsored by the Diaconia University of Applied Sciences (Diak), Helsinki; The Faculty of Theology at University of Helsinki; Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS) at Uppsala University; The Fortress Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota; LM International, Stockholm; and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.

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About Katherine Marshall

Katherine Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, leads the center’s work on religion and global development. She is also a professor of the practice of development, conflict, and religion in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, teaching diverse courses on the ethics of development work and mentoring students at many levels. She helped to create and now serves as the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, an NGO that works to enhance bridges between different sectors and institutions. In September 2022, she was appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Marshall has five decades of experience on a variety of development issues in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and the Middle East, particularly those facing the world’s poorest countries; one way she shares her expertise is through her blog Faith in Action. She was a World Bank officer from 1971 to 2006, and she led the World Bank’s faith and ethics initiative between 2000 and 2006. Marshall is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values and the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, both part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

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About Josephine Sundqvist

Dr. Josephine Sundqvist is secretary-general of LM International. She has extensive experience managing humanitarian and development programs, including at at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

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