Fall 2021, Issue 05, p. 29
[Online 18 Nov 2021, Article A030]
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Resources & Updates: Fall 2021

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

New Research

• October 2021: Faith-Based Organizations and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination: Challenges and Recommendations. (Levin, Idler, and VanderWeele)
• October 2021: Pew polling report on religion and COVID-19
• September 2021: Religious or spiritual coping, religious service attendance, and type 2 diabetes: A prospective study of women in the United States. (Spence et al.)
• June 2021: Special Issue in Religions “Pandemic, Religion and Non-religion“
• June 2021: Psychological and spiritual outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective longitudinal study of adults with chronic disease (Davis et al.)
• March 2021: Religion and the World Health Organization: an evolving relationship. (Winiger & Peng-Keller)
• February 2021: Religious service attendance typologies and African American substance use: a longitudinal study of the protective effects among young adult men and women. (Hodge et al.)
• January 2021: Religion and Measles Vaccination in Indonesia, 1991–2017. (Harapan et al.)
• June 2020: Building towards common psychosocial measures in U.S. cohort studies: principal investigators’ views regarding the role of religiosity and spirituality in human health (Shields and Balboni)

NIH Spirituality Listserv

• New Listserv: If you would like the join the newly subscribable NIH Spirituality, and Health Scientific Interest Group Listserv, click here.

Upcoming Conferences & Webinars

• Ongoing conference: World Health Organization and Religions for Peace Global Virtual Conference, October 20-December 3, 2021: Conference Website
• Upcoming Webinar: December 14, 2021: NIH Religion, Spirituality, and Health Scientific Interest Group, “Religion, Spirituality and Health: Review, Update, and Future Directions”. Sign up here.
• Upcoming conference: Conference on Medicine and Religion, March 13-15, 2022: CMR conference website

Recent Conferences & Webinars

• American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, October 22-27, 2021: Caucus on public health and the faith community sessions
• March 2021: Webinar: Sacred Work Science, Religion & Human Health (Dr. Ellen Idler, Dr. Emmanuel Y. Lartey)