Five interdisciplinary courses connecting public health, theology, global health, the Black Church, and spiritual determinants of health.
Purchase the complete five-course package or select individual courses à la carte. Each course can be tailored for undergraduate, graduate, professional, faith-based, or community audiences.
Examines how theological ideas about human dignity, justice, suffering, healing, and collective responsibility shape public-health ethics, systems, and practice.
Why it is needed
The gap
Public-health education often discusses culture and ethics without treating theology as a serious source of health beliefs, institutional power, community trust, or moral reasoning. Theological education may address care and justice without giving learners the population-health tools needed to translate those commitments into practice. This course brings those conversations into the same room.
Sample assignment
Sacred Questions, Public Decisions
Learners select a current public-health issue, such as maternal mortality, vaccine confidence, food insecurity, or environmental injustice, and analyze it through one theological concept and one public-health framework. The final product is a concise policy or ministry action brief that identifies affected communities, ethical tensions, evidence, and a practical response.
What it is: A practical, evidence-informed product connecting scholarship, lived experience, ethical reflection, and accountable action.
Connects faith, colonial history, global inequity, migration, humanitarian action, and community authority across diverse cultural and religious contexts.
Why it is needed
The gap
Global-health training can treat religion as background culture instead of a living force that shapes institutions, aid, identity, resistance, and care. Theology courses may discuss missions and service without fully examining colonial legacies, unequal power, or community authority. This course asks who defines help, who holds knowledge, and who remains accountable after an intervention ends.
Sample assignment
Global Partnership Accountability Map
Learners examine a real or proposed global-health partnership and map its history, decision-making power, funding, community voice, and intended outcomes. They then redesign one part of the partnership to strengthen local authority, cultural humility, ethical storytelling, and accountable return.
What it is: A practical, evidence-informed product connecting scholarship, lived experience, ethical reflection, and accountable action.
Studies the Black Church as a historic site of care, resistance, health communication, organizing, and public-health partnership, while also examining trust, power, gender, and accountability.
Why it is needed
The gap
Health systems frequently approach Black churches as convenient recruitment sites rather than institutions with history, expertise, internal diversity, and legitimate authority. At the same time, celebratory accounts can overlook gendered labor, stigma, institutional harm, and uneven trust. This course holds the Black Church’s public-health legacy and its necessary accountability together.
Sample assignment
Church and Community Health Covenant
Learners conduct a community-informed assessment of one health priority and design a covenant between a congregation and a public-health partner. The deliverable defines shared goals, decision rights, compensation, communication practices, safeguards, measures of progress, and how findings or benefits will return to the community.
What it is: A practical, evidence-informed product connecting scholarship, lived experience, ethical reflection, and accountable action.
Explores the Black Church’s diasporic and global relationships, including missions, migration, development, health justice, and culturally grounded community engagement.
Why it is needed
The gap
Courses on the Black Church are often bounded by the United States, while global-health curricula may flatten the Black diaspora into a single experience. This leaves limited space to examine how migration, missions, African and Caribbean partnerships, remittances, racialization, and diasporic faith networks influence health and power across borders.
Sample assignment
Diasporic Health Partnership Case Study
Learners trace a health concern across two Black diasporic contexts and develop a culturally grounded partnership proposal. The project must identify historical ties, local knowledge, spiritual or institutional assets, power differences, and measures that communities themselves would recognize as meaningful.
What it is: A practical, evidence-informed product connecting scholarship, lived experience, ethical reflection, and accountable action.
Examines how meaning, belonging, spiritual practice, religious institutions, hope, harm, and sacred identity may shape health behaviors, care experiences, and health outcomes.
Why it is needed
The gap
Social determinants frameworks explain many material conditions that shape health, but they may leave meaning, belonging, sacred identity, spiritual harm, and religious institutional influence poorly measured or unnamed. This course studies those factors without romanticizing religion or treating spirituality as a substitute for clinical care, policy change, or material resources.
Sample assignment
Spiritual Determinants Assessment
Learners build a community-centered assessment for a selected population or setting. The tool considers protective and harmful spiritual influences, belonging, meaning, institutional trust, access to care, and material conditions. Learners also write an implementation note explaining consent, referral boundaries, cultural humility, and how results should be interpreted.
What it is: A practical, evidence-informed product connecting scholarship, lived experience, ethical reflection, and accountable action.
Offerings are available virtually, in person, or in a hybrid format. Institutions may purchase the full five-course package, build a certificate partnership, or select one or more courses à la carte.
Guest lecture
60–90 minutes, virtual or in person
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Half-day workshop
Interactive teaching with an applied exercise
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Full-day intensive
Expanded instruction, discussion, and facilitated application
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Multi-session or semester course
Customized syllabus, instruction, assignments, and institutional adaptation
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Five-course certificate partnership
Designed with the institution for undergraduate, graduate, or professional learners
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Pricing is developed by proposal based on audience, scope, delivery format, course customization, assessment, licensing, travel, and institutional requirements. Final scope and pricing are confirmed in writing.
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