Public Health

"Taking the HDS course 'Change, Adversity and Spiritual Resilience' opened my eyes to the extent of the spiritual crisis that people are walking through whenever they are undergoing change, whether positive or negative," says Keona Wynne, PhD candidate at...

“I was a little surprised that so many people in my community don’t trust this vaccine," said the Rev. Liz Walker, MDiv '05, pastor of Roxbury Presbyterian Church and a member of Governor Charlie Baker’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group. “I am talking to...

Kevin Cranston and the truth of pandemics Kevin Cranston, MDiv ’86, learned early on that viruses tell the truth. As a gay man coming of age during the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, he saw the ways that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) crossed...

Bob Linscott’s specialties feel essential, now more than ever. The assistant director of the LGBT Aging Project at the Fenway Institute in Boston, Linscott, MTS '97, has spent his career focused on the needs of older adults.

Matthew Potts, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature and of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School and Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church considers rituals of love and service in a season of social distancing. On Maundy Thursday in...

Kevin Cranston, MDiv '86, assistant commissioner in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the director of the state’s Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, spoke about how he and his team are working hard tracking cases of...

The following essay was written by Holly Lebowitz Rossi, MTS ’99. Most of us can affirm the existence of a profound connection between body and mind. Through any religious or spiritual lens—or just a nameless intuition—we experience our lives at the most...

Barber looks at the way religion shapes HIV transmission, treatment, and prevention Darius (not his real name) grew up African American and gay in the socially conservative American South. Life wasn’t easy, but his mother loved and sheltered him. He...

Despite malaria remaining a major disease, infecting more than 200 million people and killing nearly 500,000 a year, such great progress was made against it that the World Health Organization (WHO) recently set a global target for eliminating the illness...

Atul Gawande talks about the limits of "being mortal" with Harvard Divinity School Dean David Hempton at the School's annual Ingersoll Lecture and Convocation.