Strong Partners: Realigning Religious Health Assets for Community Health
Authors: William Foege, Gary Gunderson, Len Duhl, John Gates, Douglas Pascover, Nancy Zionts, James Mercy, Byron Harrell, John Graham, and Dean Schooler Date: 1997 Location: N/A Background: This document marked an early effort by IHP to make the case for the...
Starting Point: Empowering Communities to Improve Health
Authors: Jimmy Carter, Tom Droege and Fran Wenger Date: 1997 Location: N/A Background: This manual shares lessons learned through the Atlanta Interfaith Health Program to teach lay volunteers to serve as health promoters in their local congregations. Download...
Expanding the Public Health Envelope Through Faith Community-Public Health Partnerships
Presenters: Caswell Evans, 1994 President-elect, American Public Health Association David Satcher, Director, US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Rev. Joan Brown-Campbell, Gen. Sec. of the National Council of Churches Rabbi David Saperstein, Dir. Religious...
Playing To Our Strengths: Religious Hospitals and Community Health Status
Author: Gary Gunderson Date: October 27, 1994 Location: National Interfaith Healthcare Leadership Conference Background: Dr. Gunderson presented this paper in which he described the distinctive contribution of religious hospitals and laid out the ways in which the...