Fall 2019, Issue 1, p. 18
[Online 30 Oct. 2019, Article A006]
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Resources & Updates: Fall 2019
PHRS Staff
Editors’ Note: This section emphasizes resources at the intersection of religion/spirituality and public health, as well as major organizations that at times address these intersections. Please see the “Resources” tab on the PHRS website for more content, and please send new potential content to this section to: PHRSadm1@publichealthrs.org and phrsadmin0@publichealthrs.org
Research
Editors’ Note: Special issues and special sections are issues or sections of a journal entirely dedicated to a single topic, allowing for more breadth and depth. Here we highlight two forthcoming special collections at the intersection of religion and public health:
- New/forthcoming Special Issue/section, 2019: Religions and public health: critical insights from religious studies (Blevins, ed.), Religions
- New/forthcoming Special Issue/section, 2019: The religion variable in community health promotion and illness prevention (Milstein, Palitsky et al.), Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community
- New Research, October 2019: An update on America’s changing religious landscape, Pew Research Center
- New Research, August 2019: Mental health and self-rated health among U.S. South Asians: the role of religious group involvement (Stroope, Kent et al.), Ethnicity and Health
- New Research, April 2019: Religious service attendance, health behaviors and well-being—an outcome-wide longitudinal analysis (Pawlikowski, Bialowolski et al.), European Journal of Public Health
Articles, Commentaries, Interviews, Webinars (newest first)
- Interview with Dr. Mirfin Mpundu, Director of the Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network in the April 2019 Bulletin of the World Health Organization: Mirfin Mpundu: accessing medicines, fighting resistance (PMC)
- Webinar of 2019 Emory Conference marking the release of the Special Issue on Faith-based Partnerships in the American Journal of Public Health: Finding common ground: partnerships in religion and public health
- Sandro Galea, Dean of Boston University School of Public Health, on Religion and Public Health: On religion and public health
Upcoming Conferences (earliest first)
- American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 2-6, 2019: Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community sessions
- Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, March 13-14, 2020 (Denver, CO) (Division 36 of the American Psychological Association): Online announcement
- Conference on Medicine and Religion, March 22-24, 2020: CMR conference website
Educational and Student Resources
- Spirituality and Public Health National Student Essay Competition, due by January 5, 2020 (see also article by Oman and Long, this issue): Essay Contest Website