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GHC3 is committed to helping people of all faiths return safely to their places of worship. To that end, we’re holding roundtables with prioritized input from leaders whose communities are at increased risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes.
Together, we’re learning about the challenges and working to find real solutions.
Participants
The input we received during our roundtable will be used to develop a comprehensive Back 2 Worship plan. Some of the feedback included:
“Can we ensure that we will not harm anyone by potential exposure to COVID-19?”
“If we can’t ensure people’s safety, we won’t return until we can.”
Participants indicated concern about ensuring safety for large numbers of people during services and whether the worship services will feel same if certain religious, cultural, and social practices are stopped (hugging, touching, holding hands, singing, etc.)
Some observed that precautions such as wearing masks, barring singing, no physical contact (hugging, holding hands) diminishes the value of in-person prayer.
Participants showed interest in reconvening another roundtable, perhaps with more participants from a range of faiths, to “look for more opportunities to work with different faiths” and come up with universal, generally applicable solutions.
GHC3 is a division of the Center for Global Health Innovation (CGHI). The Center for Global Health Innovation is an Atlanta based 501(c)3 organization that was launched in 2019 to bring together diverse Global Health, Health Technology and Life Sciences entities to collaborate, innovate and activate solutions to enhance human health outcomes around the world. At its core, CGHI will orchestrate programs that promote cross discipline cooperation to strengthen capabilities, accelerate problem solving and respond to global health crises. The Center will continue to support its subsidiary organizations, Georgia Bio and Georgia Global Health Alliance and is standing up a permanent Global Health Crisis Coordination Center to bringing to bear the best private sector and public sector capabilities and experience in times of need.
