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IHRS in the News: Research Assistant Alexandra Nichipor Honored by Alma Mater

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After MCLA, and following a year in China to teach English, Alexandra Nichipor ’12 went on to earn her master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School. She recently accepted a position at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she’s a research assistant for...

Jewish Identity and Genetics: An Interview with Dr. Jessica Mozersky

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05/26/2017 Dr. Jessica Mozersky received her PhD in Anthropology from University College London’s Interd isciplinary Institute of Human Genetics and Health, and she is assistant professor of medicine at the Washingston University School of Medicine in St...

Tyler VanderWeele: What the New York Times Gets Wrong about Marriage, Health, and Wellbeing

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Last week, a New York Times op-ed, “ Get Married, Get Healthy? Maybe Not,” called into question a large body of research indicating marriage is associated with better health, less depression, and greater well-being. From a rigorous research perspective...

Hope at the End of Life: An Interview with Mona Hanford (From the Hope Initiative)

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Mona Hanford is an end-of-life-care activist, teacher and writer. She chaired the conference “Journey of the Soul–Peace at Last,” which was held at the Washington National Cathedral. In this interview, she explains her work with the Hope Initiative , a...

New Book - Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine: From Evidence to Practice

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Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and medicine evaluating current empirical research and academic scholarship. https://global.oup.com/academic...

Tracy Balboni: Spirituality in Health Care

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By Anna Medaris Miller Nothing could dull the woman's pain. Every time the medical team asked her to rate it on a scale of 1 to 10, "she would uncontrollably sob," remembers Dr. Sheri Kittelson, medical director for the University of Florida Health...

Cancer and Spirituality in the Czech Republic: An Interview with Katerina Vackova

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After being diagnosed with cancer at a young age, Katerina Vackova founded Loono, an organization that supports people with cancer throughout the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Curious about how oncological care in Europe differs from that in America, we...

IHRS in the News: Quest for a Peaceful Death

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By Jeff Wheelwright When a cancer patient has run out of options — when her disease has returned and the latest experimental drug has failed and her oncologist hasn’t much to say — that’s when the patient would be fortunate to meet Tracy Balboni. She’s a...

Gloria White-Hammond: Church Spurs Parishioners To Plan For Illness And Death

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By Melissa Bailey “It would feel like murder to pull her life support,” a young woman tells the doctor. The woman sits by a hospital bed where her mother, Selena, lies unresponsive, hooked up to a breathing tube. The daughter has already made one attempt...

Tyler VanderWeele: Do Religious People Live Longer?

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If a long life is what you’re after, going to church may be the answer to your prayers. A number of studies have shown associations between attending religious services and living a long time. One of the most comprehensive, published in JAMA Internal...

Michael Balboni: Should Physicians Pray With Patients?

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by Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LMSW Although medicine and religion are typically separate domains, patients sometimes want to bring them together. For many patients, turning to prayer during their recovery or in a situation of a bad prognosis is natural and...

Tyler VanderWeele: Is Forgiveness a Public Health Issue?

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If forgiveness is strongly related to health, and being wronged is a common experience, and interventions, even do-it-yourself workbook interventions, are available and effective, then one might make the case that forgiveness is a public health issue...