James R Cochrane

Dr., Emeritus Professor, (BSc, MDiv, PhD, DDiv h.c.), Department of Religious Studies, and Senior Research Associate in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine, at the University of Cape Town

Jim manages the Leading Causes of Life Initiative in partnership with Prof Gary Gunderson, Wake Forest University, NC, USA.  Previously Director of the Research Institute on Christianity and Society in Africa, he is also Co-Director of the International/African Religious Health Assets Programme Hub at the University of Cape Town. His more recent research has been mainly in religion and public health, and religion in public life generally, including studies in social ethics, ‘community wisdom,’ and globalization. With LCLI Fellow Doug McGaughey, he has written a forthcoming book (2017) on The Human Spirit: Groundwork​ that is one outcome of his involvement with the Leading Causes of Life Initiative. A previous editor of the Journal of Theology for Southern Africa and of the New South African Outlook, his other publications include Religion and the Health of the Public: Shifting the Paradigm  (with Gary Gunderson), Circles of Dignity: Theological Reflection and Community Wisdom,  and Servants of Power: English Speaking Churches in South Africa, 1903-1930, as well as several edited volumes (most recently, When Religion and Health Align: Mobilizing Religious Health Assets for Transformation, with Barbara Schmid & Teresa Cutts), and over 200 essays, articles and other publications.

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CORE TEAM MEMBERS
Jim Cochrane
Gary Gunderson
Teresa Cutts
Andy McCarroll
Heather Wood Ion