We’ve created replication guides and materials for others to implement similar programs.
👉 Learn more about IMCAN: beacon4health.com
👉 Connect with
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to collaborate on aligned research & programs.
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IMCAN delivered mosque-based and online workshops co-led by a female doctor + a religious scholar.
261 women joined across England & Scotland.
Preliminary results:
✔ Knowledge about cancer screening more than doubled
✔ Intentions to get screening soared
✔ Many women obtained cancer screening!

Why do all this in US and UK? Because Muslim women are less likely to attend routine screening for breast, bowel, and cervical cancer—leading to later diagnoses and poorer outcomes. We wanted to change that and provide
a blueprint for others to use the same program
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Now, we’ve expanded to the UK with IMCAN—an efficacy trial to improve cancer screening among Muslim women
beacon4health.com

We started in the US @medicineandislam.bsky.social with @americancancersoc.bsky.social identifying barriers to screening, designing a novel method👇 to create religiously tailored messages & partnering with Chicago mosques to host workshops w/a female scholar & a female MD to promote screening.

Building on Prof. Sulmasy of @kieatgu.bsky.social 's description of intrinsic, attributed, and inflorescent dignity, we map out Islamic analogues and use cases to illustrate how they apply to end-of-life healthcare decisions.
@medicineandislam.bsky.social

Together we’ll look outward — toward the stars — and inward, to what makes us who we are.

Join me for this final stop on our journey:
🎧 Listen: youtu.be/pLeAqzhody0?...

#Podcast #ScienceAndReligion #BigQuestions #FaithAndReason #TheMedicAndTheMufti #Bioethics

For insights on what I will speak to check out my book
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I am not sure; sometimes organ donation/transplantation conceptually reduces us to interchangable biological parts; humans are much more than that. I would want a synthethic supply

for more about the #IslamicBioethics positions on #organtransplantation and #xenotransplants see our article here
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