John Odden

John's passions for healthcare, trustworthy analytics and useful data science guide his professional work and personal service agenda.  After founding Collaborative For Universal Health (C4UH) and launching initial projects and programs, he conceived and began development of Spiritual Care Everywhere (SCE). 

Spiritual Care Everywhere is a project of C4UH, designed to make spiritual care support accessible anywhere, anytime. Support responds to each individual's chosen faith (including "not religious"). The initial concept was to connect people seeking spiritual care to prayer ministry / personal support volunteers. Early field work revealed too many requests to address with available volunteers. Pandemic issues greatly multiplied the need. John was able to reinvent SCE, weaving together breakthrough advances in computational and social sciences to fulfill the original vision - anywhere, anytime spiritual care support, responsive to individual choice. 

The reimagined SCE supports patients, caregivers, family members, students, employees, and communities of all kinds as an always-on scalable rapid response to any issue. SCE operates as an interfaith program, affiliated as a Focus Ministry of Centers for Spiritual Living (CSL.org).  John serves Centers for Spiritual Living as an Ordained Minister and as Spiritual Director of Spiritual Care Everywhere.