Next Religion and Health Luncheon

The Office of the Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life  

The Interfaith Health Program of Rollins School of Public Health

The Religion and Health Collaborative

 The Center for the Study of Health, Culture & Society

RELIGION AND HEALTH CONNECTION LUNCHEON

Invites you to lunch and a presentation on:

Speaker:  Matthew Bersagel Braley

Center for Health, Culture and Society Fellow,

Graduate Department of Religion Program

Through a series of fortuitous events in 2006-2007, Bersagel Braley was introduced to the African Religious Health Assets Program (ARHAP), a collaborative research initiative between Emory and three South African universities.  His dissertation research emerges out of the theoretical and practical commitments of this transdisciplinary network of scholars and health practitioners.   The dissertation, More than Just Health:  Embracing a Christian Social Ethic of Decent Care, uses an ARHAP case study of a religiously-affiliated antiretroviral treatment program in the Eastern Cape, South Africa to interrogate the World Health Organization's moral commitment to provide decent care to persons affected by HIV.  Bersagel Braley seeks to develop a historically-sensitive Christian social ethic of decent care that acknowledges the complex relationship between religion and public health.  To understand the historical roots of this complexity and to anticipate challenges the decent care framework will face, he analyzes the legacy and limitations of previous partnerships between religious institutions and the global health community. He is the first student to receive fellowship support from the RHC.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

11:45 a.m - Cox Hall 3rd Floor, Rooms 1 & 2

Reservations required ($6.00 for lunch, $3.00 for students)

Please RSVP to Ivan Maddox at (404) 727-6225 or cmadd01@emory.edu

Program Administrative Assistant

Religion and Health Collaborative

1599 Clifton Road 6.151

Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322

404-727-8356

www.emory.edu/religions&humanspirit