Christian Journal for Global Health: Issue on Vaccines, the faith community, and the common good
June 2022 | This special issue from the Christian Journal for Global Health is a diverse volume including a literature review on the key role of faith actors in addressing vaccine hesitancy, a commentary on collaboration of FBOs with NGOs for the common good, bio-psycho-social-spiritual models of health...
Engaging faith communities in public health messaging in response to COVID-19: Lessons learnt from the Democratic Republic of Congo
An article in Frontiers reports on the COVID-19 experience of faith leaders and their communities in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. A qualitative participatory research design, using a workshop methodology was deployed to seek opinions of an invited group of faith leaders. Local faith leaders described how...
Faith-based Organization Advocacy Efforts to Create a Conducive Environment to Attain FP Goals in Kenya and Zambia
Religious Leader Family Planning Champions Used Different Communications Channels to Inform the Public About Family Planning Supplement to: Bormet M, Kishoyian J, Siame Y, et al. Faith-based Advocacy for Family Planning Works: Evidence from Kenya and Zambia. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2021;9(2). https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00641
Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era
Co-Edited by Henry Perry, MD, PhD, MPH of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | This supplement provides an overview of the current status of CHW programming in low- and middle-income countries and also provides a vision for what needs to be done to help these programs...