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By Lindsay Smith Rogers Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, faith leaders and public health officials have come together to reach communities most at risk. Faith leaders became credible sources for COVID-19 information, and places of worship became trusted access points for testing and vaccinations. This partnership of faith and science offers opportunities for addressing another public health emergency: the opioid epidemic. The CDC estimates that nearly 841,000 Americans have died from drug overdoses since 1999. The COVID-19 pandemic has only inflamed the crisis: 88,000 people died from overdoses between August 2019 and August 2020 alone. Like COVID-19, the urgency of the opioid crisis must be met with creative, cross-sector solutions. Toward that end, the Clinton Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Centre for Responsible Leadership are partnering to convene national leaders from science and faith for quarterly discussions about ho ....
The webcast will be embedded above at the time of the event; a recording will be made available soon after. For the best viewing experience, please use Chrome, Edge or Safari web browsers. Firefox users may experience difficulties accessing the videos. Webcast Information 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. ET Return to this page to watch. A recording will be made available on the Bloomberg School’s website. Subscribe Let’s stay in touch! Please let us know you’ll be joining this event and would like to notified about future events on this topic. The CDC estimates that nearly 841,000 Americans have died from drug overdoses since 1999, making the modern addiction and overdose epidemic the worst in our nation’s history. ....
Dr. Muqtedar Khan is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He was the academic director of the US State Departments’ National Security Institute, 2016-2019 and is the academic director of the American Foreign Policy Institute, 2019-2021, at the Institute for Global Studies, UD. He was a Senior Nonresident Fellow of the Brookings Institution (2003-2008) and a Senior Fellow with the Center for Global Policy (2017-2020). He is the author of the award-winning book Islam and Good Governance: Political Philosophy of Ihsan published in April 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan. He is also the author of several other books: American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom (2002), Jihad for Jerusalem: Identity and Strategy in International Relations (2004), Islamic Democratic Discourse (2006), Debating Moderate Islam (University of Utah Press, 2007). His articles and commentaries can be found at www.ijtihad.org. His academic pub ....