Lily Cohen

Lily Cohen, MPhil, is a research assistant in the Centre for Pathogen Evolution at the University of Cambridge. An aspiring public health physician and global health diplomat, she has interned at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of International Health and Biodefense and will soon begin studies at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She holds degrees from Brown University (AB) and the University of Cambridge (MPhil).

A funeral worker wears a face mask with an illustration of Jesus, outside Los Ceibos hospital amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 15, 2020. The photo shows the worker in protective head covering and mask. on his mask is an image of Jesus with a rainbow colors on his robe. REUTERS/Santiago Arcos
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Religion and COVID-19—Keeping Faith in the Battle Against Coronavirus

by Samantha Kiernan, Lily Cohen

Faith leaders and their organizations can and should serve as crucial allies in the fight against COVID-19—and many are