Marilyn J. Keefe is deputy assistant secretary for population affairs in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and directs the Office of Population Affairs in Rockville, Md.

The Public Influences of African-American Churches Project conducted focus groups and surveyed black congregations and church leaders over three years to learn about congregational involvement in elections and setting public policy since the civil rights era. Despite the existence of 8,000 black elected officials and dozens of black civic and lobbying organizations, the survey found that black churches […]

Read “Rift Opens Among Evangelicals on AIDS Funding,” a Religion News Service story posted June 2, 2006, by Christianity Today.

Read a May 20, 2006, Washington Post op-ed, “Where AIDS Funding Should Go.”

Read an Oct. 8, 2006, Boston Globe series on the growing influence of Christian groups in U.S. foreign aid.

The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University has published a report titled “Global Implications of U.S. Domestic and International Policies on Sexuality.”

The Center for Public Integrity, an investigative journalism organization, published this report.

This story, published on May 14, 2013, in the New York Times, explains how Vermont became the first state to pass a legislative measure allowing physicians to administer lethal drugs to terminally ill patients in May 2013.