An Interfaculty Initiative across Harvard University
The Initiative aims to be a research catalyst for an integrated model of spirituality, public health and patient care, one that fosters collaboration across Harvard University, and dialogue with spiritual communities. In light of the separation between body and soul within contemporary healthcare, the Initiative upholds stringent scientific and social-scientific methods of analysis, followed by interdisciplinary teams of empirical researchers, scholars, and theologians, based within a line of inquiry that seeks understanding of spirit, mind, and body. The program is oriented around the question:
How may religion and spirituality in concert with public health and the practice of medicine allievate illness and promote human well-being?
Latest Faculty Research
- Dimitrios Linos: Life is Reborn Through Surgery (Presidential Address)
- Spiritual Needs in Denmark: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Survey
- Religious affiliation protects against alcohol/substance use initiation: A prospective study among healthy adolescents
- International REACH Forgiveness Intervention: A Multi-Site Randomized Controlled Trial
- Spirituality in Serious Health and Illness
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Conversations and Reflections
- Tracy Balboni: 'Harvard Thinking' — Facing Death With Dignity
- David Rosmarin: Why Religious Belief Provides a Real Buffer Against Suicide Risk
- Xavier Symons: The hostility of Illness and the Therapeutic Importance of Hospitality
- Tara Parker-Pope: A New Study shows Forgiveness is Good for Health.
- Clea Simon: Experts Explain Spirituality's Place in Health Care
- Tracy Balboni: How Spirituality Can Affect Caregiving
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