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Global Health

In both the past and present, and in virtually every world region, widely varied religious actors play crucial roles in health care. Faith institutions and groups run clinics, hospitals, and facilities that support families, orphans, handicapped people, the mentally ill, and older people. Religious beliefs and teachings can also promote healthy behaviors.

Programs and Projects

Faith and International Family Planning

Faith and International Family Planning

The birth of a baby can be life’s most exciting miracle; the death of a mother or child, a chilling tragedy. Ensuring that families have access to reproductive health information and services and can achieve the healthy timing and spacing of…
Global Health and Faith

Global Health and Faith

In both the past and present, and in virtually every world region, widely varied religious actors play crucial roles in health care. Faith institutions and groups run clinics, hospitals, and facilities that support families, orphans, handicapped…

Publications

Working Paper March 7, 2022

Two Years and Counting: COVID-19 Through a Religious Lens

The COVID-19 experience offers insights and lessons for religious engagement in future pandemic preparedness and response. This working paper highlights major themes observed so far at the two-year point of the pandemic.

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