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Ellen Idler shares her thoughts on faith communities and vaccines (Covid-19), and on the state of public health in the USA. 

A NOTE OF GRATITUDE FOR THE WORK OF CAROL HOGUE


The Rollins School of Public Health celebrated the retirement of Carol Hogue, PhD, MPH, on September 4, 2019.  In addition to her pioneering leadership in the epidemiology of maternal and child health, Carol was a leader in the field of religion and public health here at Emory.  That leadership goes back to grants received from the Templeton and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations, and the spearheading of the Religion and Public Health Collaborative in the 2007 Strategic Initiatives. 

Carol and her husband Lynn were core members of the group that produced our volume on religion and public health, with 33 other Emory authors.  Largely because of Carol, religion and public health is a field of scholarship, teaching, and community engagement here at Emory that is unparalleled at any other university.  As a member of the RPHC Executive Committee, Carol’s strategic thinking in meetings has been invaluable to the development of this program.  This is important legacy, and the Religion and Public Health Collaborative, still going strong years later, will always be grateful to her.

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Podcast:  “Religion as a Social Determinant of Health”

Podcast: “Religion as a Social Determinant of Health”

Ellen Idler, PhD, was recently interviewed by Dr. Sharon Bergquist for her long-running podcast, The Whole Health Cure, about religion as a social determinant of health Ellen Idler, PhD is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology, and Director of Emory’s...

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Virus!

Virus!

When the viruses come, as they do from time to time, we rediscover the relevance of old ideas, such as public health and communities of compassion.

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Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health

Ellen Idler, PhD, editor.
Oxford University Press, 2014

In the fall of 2010, Ellen Idler, Director of the Religion and Public Health Collaborative and Professor of Sociology, convened an interdisciplinary faculty seminar at Emory that explored both the positive and negative intersections of religion and public health.  Faculty from the schools of public health, theology, medicine, nursing, and the graduate school met monthly, discussing the complex relationship of religion and public health, two institutions that often share common interests but sometimes find themselves in opposition.  What was clear at the outset was this: religion was an invisible and unacknowledged but utterly crucial social determinant of public health.

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