OHSU-PSU School of Public Health

Hidden barriers: The impact of immigration enforcement on patients, learners and clinicians
2026-05-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Immigration enforcement policies increasingly shape access to care, with ripple effects on patient outcomes, clinician well-being, and the learning environment. This session explores how fear of enforcement delays care-seeking, leading to more advanced illness, higher-cost emergency care, and worse long-term health outcomes. It also highlights an often-overlooked group—learners from immigrant backgrounds—whose training and well-being are directly affected by these policies.
In this talk, Christina Low Kapalu, Ph.D., will moderate a discussion with Aoi Nathalia Mizushima, M.D., and Eva Galvez, M.D., examining the parallel impacts on patients, clinicians, and learners, including moral injury and ethical strain in clinical practice. The session will provide practical strategies for creating safer clinical environments, supporting vulnerable populations, and engaging in advocacy. Attendees will leave with actionable approaches to mitigate harm, strengthen trust, and improve health outcomes across communities.
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An Evening with Cherríe Moraga
2026-05-14 17:00 - 18:30 | Hoffman Hall, 1833 SW 11th Ave, Portland, 97201, United States
Please join Portland State’s Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for an evening with Cherríe Moraga as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary as a program during our annual Walk of the Heroine’s Event. A reading and hosted conversation on the past, present, and future of our feminist and queer lives.
Who: Free and Open to the Public
When: Thursday, May 14th, at 5pm
Where: Hoffman Hall, 1833 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR

About Cherríe Moraga
Cherríe Moraga is an internationally recognized poet, essayist and playwright whose professional life began in 1981 with her co-editorship of the groundbreaking feminist anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. The author of several collections of her own writings, including: A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness, Loving in The War Years, The Last Generation and Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. Moraga is the recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature and the American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award, among numerous other honors. As a dramatist, her awards include an NEA, two Fund for New American Plays Awards, and the PEN West Award. In 2017, Moraga’s most recent play, Mathematics of Love, premiered at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco. In the same year, she began her tenure as a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where with her partner, visual artist Celia Herrera Rodriguez, she instituted Las Maestras Center for Xicane Indigenous Thought, Art, and Social Praxis. Her most recent memoir, Native Country of the Heart, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2019. In 2023, Haymarket Books published updated anniversary editions of Waiting in the Wings and Loving in the War Years. In 2024, Moraga became a Distinguished Professor Emerita In English, UC Santa Barbara.
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17th Annual Latiné Health Equity Conference
2026-05-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, 97232, United States
Introducing Familias en Acción’s 17th Annual Latiné Health Equity Conference – “Seguiremos Sanando: Culture, Identity, and Collective Well-being.” This year, our conference focuses on healing – mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually and socially.
The Latiné community in Oregon is strong, unique and resourceful despite the lasting harm brought by colonialism, oppression, exclusion, migration, displacement and violence we have experienced. The current political climate is only furthering trauma and harm, making the practice of healing imperative.
Healing within the context of Familias en Acciòn’s Latiné Health Equity Conference speaks to a comprehensive approach to improving the health and well-being of the Latiné community with the grounding of our language, values and culture. Healing is more than treating an illness, it is about reconnecting with who we are, sharing our collective stories, and seeing our cultural practices as core to holistic health. By reclaiming our ancestral knowledge, honoring traditional healing practices, and speaking our truths in the language that carries our histories—Spanish, Indigenous languages, and Spanglish— we can thrive!
Join us for a day of learning, connection, and collective healing.
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