Thursday, March 11  |  5:30-6:30 PM EST  |  Via Zoom

From the Broad Street Pump, to Call the Midwife, to the Ebola Crisis: Lessons for Partnerships in Religion and Public Health for the COVID-19 Pandemic
Delivered by:  Ellen Idler, Ph.D.

Join us next week for our yearly David B. Larson Memorial Lecture on Spirituality & Health. All are invited to this lecture without charge.

Summary: Much of the research on religion and health has been focused at the individual level. Even in population-based research, data on religion usually come from respondent reports in surveys, and outcomes also come from follow-ups of individuals. But there is a whole other level on which action in religion and health is taking place – less recognized, but no less consequential and instructive. In this lecture we will tell the stories of three partnerships in religion and public health — two historical, one quite recent — in which religious institutions found common ground with public health authorities to accomplish population health improvements that neither could have achieved alone. The story of partnerships in religion and health in the COVID-19 pandemic is still being written and it is complex; we will discuss findings from a quantitative text analysis of media representations, and self representations of religious responses to COVID-19.

Zoom Meeting Link:  https://duke.zoom.us/j/92130794727?pwd=V3E3ZEVtV3BzdEFUcmZLQy9vbGw2QT09
Meeting ID: 921 3079 4727
Passcode: 164315