On December 2nd 2016, the Initiative on Health, Religion, and Spirituality hosted a symposium, inviting scholars working at the intersection of religion and medicine to share their work and to respond to the presentations of others. Tyler VanderWeele presented his research on end-of-life care, and Harold Koenig offered commentary on these findings.
Dr. Tyler VanderWeele of the T.H Chan School of Public Health at Harvard speaks on the associations between religious service attendance and reductions in depression, suicide, and mortality.
Dr. Harold Koenig, Director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health at Duke University, offers a respond to the work of Dr. VanderWeele.