The Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Divinity School

present

The Second Annual Symposium on
The Roles of Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health

Thursday, March 12th
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Harvard-Yenching Institute, Auditorium
2 Divinity Avenue ● Cambridge, MA

Reception to follow symposium

Welcome:
Dr. Daniel Wikler, Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Opening Address (1:00-1:45 pm)

“Health and Faith in the Obama Era”

Kimberly Konkel
Associate Director for Health, Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, HHS
Panel 1 (1:45-3:15 pm)
Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health: Constitutional, Legal, and Ethical Issues

Melissa Rogers
Director, Wake Forest School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs;
Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Richard Katskee
Assistant Legal Director, American’s United for Separation of Church and State

Kevin Outterson
Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law

Moderator: Richard Parker
Lecturer in Public Policy, Sr. Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Panel 2 (3:30-5:00 pm)

Contraception and Faith: Including the Voice of Religion in Family Planning

Dianne Luby
President and CEO, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts

Rev. Eugene Rivers, III
Pastor, Azusa Christian Community; Co-chair, National TenPoint Leadership Foundation

Allan Hill
Andelot Professor of Demography, Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

Lisa Sowle Cahill
J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology, Boston College

Nadine Weidman
Associate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

Moderator: Dr. Marcia Castro
Assistant Professor of Demography, Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

Sponsored by:
The Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health;
Africa Health Forum;
The Office of Student Life, Harvard Divinity School;
HSPH Student Group for Reproductive Health and Rights

This event is open to the public.

Questions? Please contact Alyson at arosewoo@hsph.harvard.edu