Faith-Based Health Justice

Ville Päivänsalo is Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Theological and Social Ethics, The University of Helsinki, and previously served in the same university as Acting University Lecturer in Systematic Theology and as Assistant Professor in Global Theology, Worldviews, and Ideologies. Ville Päivänsalo is the author of Balancing Reasonable Justice (2007) and Maallinen Oikeudenmukai suus [Earthly Justice] (2011).

Ayesha Ahmad is a lecturer in global health at St. Georges University of London, and honorary lecturer in Global Health, University College London. She specializes in religion and culture in mental health and gender-based violence during conflict, disasters, and humanitarian crises. Her forthcoming book, Humanitarian Action and Ethics, is co-edited with Dr. James Smith.

George Zachariah is on the faculty of theological studies at Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland, New Zealand. He has previously served as professor of theology and ethics at the United Theological College, Bangalore, India, and the Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute, Chennai, India. He is the author of Alternatives Unincorporated: Earth Ethics from the Grassroots (2011) and Gospel in a Groaning World: Climate Injustice and Public Witness (2012).

Mari Stenlund is a Finnish social ethicist and doctor of theology whose special research interest deal with religion, mental health, and human rights. She has published several international articles concerning the ethical and philosophical challenges of psychotic delusions, psychiatric involuntary treatment, and human rights theory.