Our vision is to reunite faith and healthcare in line with God's intention of bringing healing to the world. To that end, we exist to make disciples of Jesus among those in the biomedical science and healthcare community in Boston for the glory of God.

BHF is a ministry of the Longwood Christian Community that serves the biomedical science and health care community and the local churches in Boston. As brothers and sisters within biomedical science and healthcare, we desire to follow Jesus as we seek to alleviate human suffering and promote health in Jesus’ name. We are working together as students, clinicians, researchers and educators to serve faithfully in the university, community and global mission fields. Our common tasks in all of these arenas and initiatives are:

  1. To root our identity in Jesus Christ;

  2. To train ourselves to be clinicians, researchers and educators in Jesus’ name; and

  3. To enable others to do the same.

Boston Healthcare Fellowship Director

Pastor Michael Balboni

Michael Balboni, Ph.D., Th.M., M.Div, is a congregational pastor and theologian. He has served both as a congregational minister in Boston and in an intentional Christian community of healthcare students and professionals. He holds a Ph.D. in practical theology from Boston University. He has completed post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Divinity School, the Harvard School of Public Health (clinical effectiveness), and the University of Chicago (bioethics). As co-founder of the Harvard Initiative on Health, Religion, and Spirituality, he has published approximately fifty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. As a theologian, his focus has included the development of a theology and spirituality of medicine. With Tracy Balboni, he has co-authored "Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization in Medicine” (Oxford University Press). He is also the co-editor of "Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine" (Oxford University Press). His current book project, also with Tracy Balboni, entitled “Dancing with Lois”, focuses on the 21st-century church, the sick, and Jesus’ call to healing.

Michael has three children. They have raised their family as part of the Longwood Christian Community, which they helped co-found in 2003.