Wednesday, March 31, 2021  |  1:00-2:30 p.m. EDT  |  Via Zoom

Sacred Work: Science, Religion and Human Health

There is a great convergence of disciplines in health science taking place in the world today. Human values are moving to the forefront of what constitutes for health of person and community. Vocations in spiritual health and religious care are turning to the importance of scientific preparation while health scientists are incorporating sacred underpinnings to discover and be present to whole person and population health. Emory University invites you to hear from two of our most accomplished scholars who will address current and future movements of these elements. This is a free event that will be recorded.

Moderated By:
Dr. George H. Grant & Dr. Charles Raison

Featuring:
Dr. Ellen L. Idler
Ellen L. Idler, Director, Religion and Public Health Collaborative, and Professor, Departments of Sociology and Epidemiology. Dr. Idler received her Ph.D. and M.Phil. from Yale University (1985), her B.A. from the College of Wooster (1974, Phi Beta Kappa) and she attended Union Theological Seminary on a Rockefeller Brothers Fellowship. She taught at Rutgers University from 1985 to 2009, in the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research.

Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Y. Lartey
Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Y. Lartey teaches pastoral theology, care, and counseling at Candler, as well as in the Person, Community, and Religious Life program in Emory’s Graduate Division of Religion. Lartey came to Candler in 2004, and previously taught pastoral and practical theology at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.