Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Duke University 1996
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2015 - 2018
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  Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke

  • Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics, 2014-
    Co-director, The PLANET Project, Kenan Institute for Ethics, 2016-
    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Global Health 2015-2018
    Associate Dean, Duke Divinity School, 2006-2017
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  Academic Positions Outside Duke

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Montana, Missoula. 1994 - 2000
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Carroll College, Helena, Montana. 1992 - 1994
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • SEP 28, 2018

    Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

    Ethics Students Find Power Plant Proposal Sheds Light on Gray Areas of Decision Making

  • NOV 25, 2015

    NPR

    David Toole: A pope's visit may bring hope, but does it also bring change?
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Africa, East
  • Environmental Policy
  • Environmental ethics
  • Ethics
  • Hospitals--Anecdotes
  • Religion and the humanities
  • Rural hospitals
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • Africa (Continent) 
    • Burundi (Country) 
    • Democratic Republic of the Congo (Country) 
    • Sudan (Country) 
    • Uganda (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • What Are People For? Questions Concerning What It Means to Be Human awarded by Blankemeyer Foundation 2019
  • Stress Inoculation Training awarded by Duke Endowment 2017 - 2018
  • Defining & Identifying Rural churches 2016 awarded by Duke Endowment 2015 - 2016
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Proeschold-Bell, RJ, Turner, EL, Bennett, GG, Yao, J, Li, X-F, Eagle, DE, Meyer, RA, Williams, RB, Swift, RY, Moore, HE, Kolkin, MA, Weisner, CC, Rugani, KM, Hough, HJ, Williams, VP, and Toole, DC. "A 2-Year Holistic Health and Stress Intervention: Results of an RCT in Clergy." American journal of preventive medicine 53, no. 3 (September 2017): 290-299.  Full Text
    • "Corrigendum to Use of a randomized multiple baseline design: Rationale and design of the Spirited Life holistic health intervention study [Contemp Clin Trials 35 (2013) 138-152]." Contemporary Clinical Trials 37, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 165-null.  Full Text
    • Proeschold-Bell, RJ, Miles, A, Toth, M, Adams, C, Smith, BW, and Toole, D. "Using effort-reward imbalance theory to understand high rates of depression and anxiety among clergy." The Journal of Primary Prevention 34, no. 6 (December 2013): 439-453.  Full Text
    • Proeschold-Bell, RJ, Swift, R, Moore, HE, Bennett, G, Li, X-F, Blouin, R, Williams, VP, Williams, RB, and Toole, D. "Use of a randomized multiple baseline design: rationale and design of the spirited life holistic health intervention study." Contemporary Clinical Trials 35, no. 2 (July 2013): 138-152.  Full Text
    • Wallace, AC, Proeschold-Bell, RJ, LeGrand, S, James, J, Swift, R, Toole, D, and Toth, M. "Health Programming for Clergy: An Overview of Protestant Programs in the United States." Pastoral Psychology 61, no. 1 (February 2012): 113-143.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Proeschold-Bell, RJ, LeGrand, S, Wallace, A, James, J, Moore, HE, Swift, R, and Toole, D. "Tailoring health programming to clergy: findings from a study of United Methodist clergy in North Carolina." Journal of prevention & intervention in the community 40, no. 3 (January 2012): 246-261.  Full Text
    • Proeschold-Bell, RJ, Legrand, S, James, J, Wallace, A, Adams, C, and Toole, D. "A theoretical model of the holistic health of United Methodist clergy." Journal of Religion and Health 50, no. 3 (September 2011): 700-720.  Full Text

  • Conference Papers

    • Drain, PK, Mock, C, Toole, D, Rosenwald, A, Jehn, M, Csordas, T, Ferguson, L, Waggett, C, Obidoa, C, and Wasserheit, JN. "The Emergence of Undergraduate Majors in Global Health: Systematic Review of Programs and Recommendations for Future Directions." January 2017.  Full Text
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • ETHICS 89S: Special Topic: First-Year Seminar in Ethics 2018
  • ETHICS 288S: Ethical Dimensions of Environmental Policy 2018
  • GLHLTH 248S: Ethical Dimensions of Environmental Policy 2018
  • GLHLTH 303: Global Health Systems 2018
  • GLHLTH 345S: Organized Compassion: Global Health as Moral Enterprise 2018
  • GLHLTH 391: Independent Study in Global Health 2018
  • GLHLTH 393: Research Independent Study in Global Health 2018
  • HOUSECS 59: House Course 2018
  • WXTIAN 999: DIRECTED STUDY 2018
  • XTIANETH 999: DIRECTED STUDY 2018
  • ETHICS 101D: The Challenges of Living an Ethical Life 2017
  • GLHLTH 101: Fundamentals of Global Health 2017
  • POLSCI 120D: The Challenges of Living an Ethical Life 2017
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader. Data+ Project Lead. 2017  2017
  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Spirituality, Self-management and Chronic Disease among Ethnic Groups of Robeson County, North Carolina. August 2016 - May 2017  2016 - 2017
  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Generosity and Gratitude: Mechanisms, Motivations and Models of Living Kidney Donation. July 2015 - May 2016  2015 - 2016
  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member . Living Donor Kidney Transplants and the Good Samaritan: Religious, Legal and Ethical Challenges of Nonsimultaneous, Extended, Altruistic Donor Chains. August 2014 - May 2015  2014 - 2015
  • Duke Global Health Outreach. Clergy Health Initiative. September 2007  2007

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