# Spirituality, Health, and Health Disparities Symposium #### calendar\_today Date and Time **December 4, 2014** 08:00AM - 05:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **Joseph B. Martin Conference Center (77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston)** This transdisciplinary symposium will engage **post-docs** and **faculty** from diverse disciplines to address the role of spirituality and religion in health and health disparities. Panels will address challenges in measuring spirituality; biological pathways through which spirituality may operate to affect the etiology of disease; and the effect of spirituality across diverse communities on patients’ healthcare decision-making, treatment, and outcomes. This symposium will lay the groundwork for future research collaborations across Harvard Catalyst institutions and across disciplines. **Featured speakers include:** - **Lynn Rosenberg, ScD, MS**, Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health; Associate Director of the Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University; Principal Investigator, Black Women’s Health Study - **Herman Taylor, MD, MPH**, Director and Endowed Professor of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine; Principal Investigator, Jackson Heart Study - **The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi Rinpoche, PhD**, Founding Director, The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Founding Director and President, Prajnopaya Institute and Foundation - **Tracy Balboni, MD, MPH**, Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician in Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - **Susan Block, MD**, Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Co-Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care - **Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD,** **MPH**, Mark and Catherine Winkler Associate Professor of Environmental Epigenetics, Harvard School of Public Health - **Kenneth I. Pargament, PhD**, Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine - **Neal Krause, PhD**, Marshall H. Becker Collegiate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan - **Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, PhD**, Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University; Dorothy and William Manealoff Foundation and Molly Rosen Chair in Social Medicine Emerita; Principal Investigator, Women's Health Initiative **Registration is required to attend this free event; space is limited.** ****RSVP at: **** Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://rshm.hsites.harvard.edu/node/307271/event-feed.ics) Copy link link