OHSU-PSU School of Public Health

PSU Careers Workshop: Introduction to Interviewing
2025-08-23 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Prepare for your next interview and learn how to market your skills to employers. We’ll discuss the basics of interviewing, review employers’ expectations, and clarify how to handle the most common interview questions.
Register on Zoom: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/81945128759?jst=2

Cycle of Socialization
2025-08-23 10:00 - 12:30 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
YWCA Social Justice Training
The Cycle of Socialization helps us to understand the ways in which we are all socialized to help maintain oppressive systems and human hierarchies.
Facilitated by Meleani Bates
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Interrupting + Recasting Harmful Conversations About Race
2025-08-22 10:00 - 12:30 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
YWCA Social Justice Training
Developing critical consciousness about race and oppression requires us to first understand our own racialized identities. This workshop aims to support ongoing exploration of our positionality, strengthen our ability to read racially stressful encounters, and recast/reframe situations using skillful interruption strategies that preserve our collective humanity.
Facilitated by Meleani Bates
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Funding Your Graduate School Education: Financial Literacy Seminar
2025-08-20 12:00 - 13:00 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Incoming SPH graduate students are invited to join the School of Public Health and the OHSU Educational Debt Counseling & Financial Management program for a conversation on funding your graduate education.

During this workshop you will learn about:

Cost of Attendance Details
Understanding types of Aid Available
Financial Aid Policies/Procedures
External Financial Resources
Budgeting through your Program
Recent Updates to Federal Student Aid

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PSU Careers Workshop: LinkedIn
2025-08-16 12:00 - 13:30 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Tap into your inner researcher and learn about the world’s largest professional networking site. We’ll explore how you can leverage this platform to connect with professionals and organizations in your field(s) of interest.
Register on Zoom: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/81396626824?jst=2

ASPPH Webinar: Truth-Telling in the Age of Health Misinformation and Disinformation
2025-08-11 09:00 - 10:00 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Join ASPPH on August 11 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET for our webinar, Truth-Telling in the Age of Health Misinformation and Disinformation, part of our ASPPH Presents series. This session will explore practical approaches to identifying and addressing false narratives that erode public trust and hinder progress in public health.
Building on insights from the Partners for Advancing Health Equity podcast series, the webinar will highlight how misinformation and disinformation differ, who is most vulnerable, and what tools public health professionals can use to foster fact-based communication.
The program will feature curated video segments from the two-part podcast series, Addressing Health Misinformation and Disinformation to Advance Truth-Telling (Episode 1; Episode 2). Following the highlights, panelists will discuss strategies for building media literacy, empowering trusted messengers, and restoring confidence in health systems.
Panelists include Dr. Caryn Bell, Associate Director of Partners for Advancing Health Equity and Assistant Professor at Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine; and Erin O’Malley, Executive Director of the Coalition for Trust in Health & Science. Tim Leshan, Chief External Relations and Advocacy Officer at ASPPH, will moderate the session.

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PSU Careers Workshop: Resumes and Cover Letters
2025-08-09 10:30 - 12:00 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Learn how to effectively write résumés and cover letters, whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the job market. We’ll review basic formatting, clarify what kind of information is essential, and discuss how to illustrate “fit” through your application materials.
Register on Zoom: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/86917644122?jst=2

What I Wish I Had Known
2025-08-05 18:00 - 19:00 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Please join us for a conversation with current SPH graduate students and recent alumni on their student experience within the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. They’ll share what they wish they had known before entering their program, tips, and recommendations. We’re excited to connect with you before the 2025-26 academic year begins, support your transition into the School of Public Health, and help you get connected to important resources! We hope you can join!
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PSU Careers: Job Search 101
2025-08-02 12:00 - 13:30 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Job searching can be a big task, and there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach for how to do it. This workshop explores ways to conduct an intentional job search and provides concrete tools and resources to increase your chances of success.
Register on Zoom: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/85244529201?jst=2

DOHaD Summer Course
2025-07-28 08:00 - 2025-07-30 17:00 | OHSU Knight Cancer Research Building, 2720 S Moody Ave, Portland, United States
The DOHaD Summer Course is designed for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early-career faculty who are interested in the long-term consequences of developmental programming. The course introduces participants to different perspectives within the field of DOHaD thru a series of lectures by nationally recognized researchers.
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHAD) is a growing body of research that shows how gene-environment interactions, beginning in the womb, play a critical role in determining an individual’s life-long health profile.
This year our course we will be running in conjunction with the U.S DOHaD Society Annual Meeting. The Society is a regional group of the International DOHaD Society seeking to expand DOHaD research by exploring all facets of fetal origins and early life programming of health and disease. They also promote collaboration between disciplines and facilitate trainings and career development opportunities.
The theme for this year’s course is “Environmental Impact on Developmental Programming”. This year the course will be three days, with the third shared day acting as a trainee day for attendants of our DOHaD Summer Course and the U.S DOHaD Society Meeting. The theme of the career development day is “Beyond the Science” and will feature interactive sessions between speakers and trainees related to grant writing and review, presentation skills and different perspectives on career opportunities. Finally, the US DOHaD Society meeting will have “Beyond 1000 Days” as its theme and feature oral and poster sessions where the latest work is presented.
We are encouraging participants from our previous years to participate in this year’s course as this will be an exciting opportunity for collaboration with other researchers who are in different stages in their careers.
Registration closes Sunday, July 6th EOD.
2025 Date: July 28 – 30
Check-in begins at 8 a.m. on Monday.
Attendance disclaimer: Please arrange your schedule to ensure you can attend the course in full. The program’s schedule doesn’t allow for late arrivals or early departures. Plan to be on time.
July 28: 8:00-6:30 p.m.
July 29: 8:30-5:00 p.m.
July 30: 7:30-4:00 p.m.
Cost:
$225 for Summer Course Only
$370 for Summer Course and U.S DOHaD Conference (Trainee Member)
$690 for Summer Course and U.S DOHaD Conference (Non-Trainee Member)

PSU Careers Workshop: Introduction to Interviewing
2025-07-26 10:30 - 12:00 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Prepare for your next interview and learn how to market your skills to employers. We’ll discuss the basics of interviewing, review employers’ expectations, and clarify how to handle the most common interview questions.
Register on Zoom: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/89966957108?jst=2

Creating Professional Presentations and Websites Using R and Quarto
2025-07-22 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-07-17 13:00 - 14:30 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Hosted By Meike Niederhausen, Ph.D. and Jessica Minnier, Ph.D.
Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Program

This two-part workshop aims to teach statisticians, data scientists, and those in allied fields to create professional style presentations and websites in R and Rstudio using the recently developed Quarto package. This package is an extension of RMarkdown and most often used for literate programming reports that incorporate code from R and other programming languages with text, graphs, and results. However, this powerful package can create much more than just an analysis report. This workshop will teach R users who may be novices in Quarto about the other useful applications of Quarto, specifically how to build websites for their professional profiles as well as courses, and how to make presentations for talks and teaching. Quarto presentations can include code and results within slides as well as harness useful presentation tools such as annotations, outlines, notes, etc. Presentations can be formatted as html (Reveal JS), PowerPoint, or LaTeX Beamer slides.
This workshop is intended for R and Rstudio users. Participants will need to bring laptops with R and Rstudio installed, and will receive instructions prior to the course to install required R packages. Example website and presentations can be found at https://niederhausen.github.io/BSTA_511_F24/
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ASPPH Virtual Graduate School Fair
2025-07-17 06:00 - 14:00 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
If you’re considering a graduate degree in public health, or you have students who are interested, don’t miss the opportunity to connect with admissions representatives from top public health schools and programs at our upcoming virtual fair. Join us on July 17, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET for a This Is Public Health (TIPH) Virtual Graduate School Fair.
Join us and connect with public health institution representatives from 25+ schools and programs, from across the nation, all from the comfort of your own home. This is the perfect opportunity for anyone aspiring to make a difference in the vital field of public health. Don’t let this unparalleled opportunity pass you by. Start shaping your future in public health today!
Participants do not need to attend the full eight-hour block.
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PSU Career Workshop: LinkedIn 101
2025-07-12 12:00 - 13:30 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Tap into your inner researcher and learn about the world’s largest professional networking site. We’ll explore how you can leverage this platform to connect with professionals and organizations in your field(s) of interest.
Register on Zoom: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/85915967122?jst=2

ASPPH Webinar: The Healthy Longevity Framework for Academic Public Health
2025-07-09 09:00 - 10:00 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
This webinar will introduce ASPPH’s new Healthy Longevity Framework, developed in response to the National Academy of Medicine’s call to action, and which will be released in late June 2025. The framework outlines how academic public health can lead efforts to extend health span through chronic disease prevention, infrastructure reinvestment, and cross-sector collaboration. The session will be moderated by Dr. Linda Fried, Dean of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Chair of the ASPPH Healthy Longevity Task Force.
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ASPPH Webinar: Early-Career Insights, Enduring Impact: Using Graduate Outcomes and Workforce Data to Shape Academic Public Health
2025-07-07 10:00 - 11:00 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
This session will highlight findings from ASPPH’s First Destination graduate outcomes data and the de Beaumont Foundation’s Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS), with a focus on professionals under the age of 35. Panelists, including Dr. Emily Burke, ASPPH’s Senior Director of Workforce Development and Applied Practice, will discuss how these insights can inform recruitment, education, and long-term career support for emerging public health leaders.
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OHSU Pay it Forward Mentor-Mentee Mixer
2025-06-29 13:00 - 16:00 | Joseph R. Robertson Collaborative Life Sciences Building, 2730 South Moody Avenue, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
Pay It Forward Mentorship Program is hosting an event for mentees and mentors. Prospective medical students are welcome to come!
Join us at the Joseph R. Robertson Collaborative Life Sciences Building for a chance talk to current OHSU students about medical school and learn more about the medical school process. Sunday, June 29, 2025, 1:00pm – 4:00 pm. Registration is required, please complete this form.
The event will feature:

Q&A panel with current medical students
Breakout sessions on different tracks (MD/PhD, specialties, non-traditional paths, gap years, etc.)
Free pizza and beverages
Raffle prizes for attendees

PSU Careers Workshop: Resumes and Cover Letters
2025-06-28 10:30 - 12:00 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Learn how to effectively write résumés and cover letters, whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the job market. We’ll review basic formatting, clarify what kind of information is essential, and discuss how to illustrate “fit” through your application materials.
Register on Zoom: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/89767266279?jst=2

ASPPH Advocacy in Action: Advancing Public Health in a Shifting Political Landscape
2025-06-26 07:00 - 08:00 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Join us for Advocacy in Action: Advancing Public Health in a Shifting Political Landscape, an ASPPH Presents webinar on June 26 at 10:00 AM ET, moderated by our Chief External Relations and Advocacy Officer, Tim Leshan. Held in conjunction with ASPPH’s member-only 2025 Sections Retreat, this public session will offer a timely policy update and strategic insights into elevating academic public health voices amid growing political and fiscal challenges.
The webinar will provide a comprehensive advocacy briefing and a strategic discussion on navigating today’s increasingly complex policy environment. It will also highlight ASPPH’s current federal policy priorities and offer practical insights for engaging effectively with policymakers and stakeholders.
As public health professionals face heightened political and budgetary challenges, this session will equip participants with tools to build coalitions, elevate public health narratives, and communicate the value of academic public health more strategically.
Additionally, the session will spotlight key findings from Broken Lifelines: The Economic Consequences of Defunding Academic Public Health, ASPPH’s recent report on the far-reaching impact of funding cuts.
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Community Good Job Fair
2025-06-18 10:00 - 13:00 | SE Works/WorkSource Office, 401 SE Foster Rd, Portland, 97206, United States
This event is focused on (but not limited to) behavioral health roles, including:

Peer Support Specialists/Peer Wellness Specialists/Certified Recovery Mentors
Case Managers
Housing Managers
Job Developers
Mentors
BHRN Navigators
Community Health Workers
Career Coaches
Community Health Navigators

When: Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Where: SE Works/WorkSource Office (6401 SE Foster Rd, Portland, OR 97206)

Enter on 65th off of Foster Road, into the parking Jot. Parking is available on Foster and surrounding areas; ADA accessible.

PSU 2025 Commencement
2025-06-14 08:00 - 17:00 | Viking Pavillion, 930 SW Hall St, Portland, 97201, United States
Date: Saturday June 14, 2025, at Viking Pavilion.
Who can participate: All undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students.

Regalia: Order your regalia by April 8, 2025 here: PSU Regalia

Apply to graduate: Undergraduate students and dual-degree MPH-MURP or MPH-MSW students, learn about applying to graduate here: PSU Commencement and Graduation information (scroll to the bottom of the page)

Watch Live Feed – PSU Commencement

SPH Japan Study Abroad Program Info Session
2025-06-12 12:00 - 13:00
Embark on a journey to Japan while also earning credits toward your degree! My name is Betty Izumi and I’m a professor in the School of Public Health and also a registered dietitian. I am Japanese Canadian/American and have lived and traveled extensively in Japan. I’ll be leading a study abroad in Japan in Fall term that takes students to 3 major cities: Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto! Japan will be our classroom as we learn about food and nutrition programs, practices, and policies through field trips to schools, senior care facilities, food banks, farms, and more! Hands-on cultural experiences include making tofu and participating in a tea ceremony. This fast paced, 4-credit course for graduate and undergraduate students will take place from December 6-20.

Learn more and apply to the program here or join the last info session on Thursday, June 12 from 12-1 pm.

Zoom meeting link: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/85177554510?jst=2
Meeting ID: 851 7755 4510

Deadline to apply is June 20.

Wellness Week: Unwind & Align - Desk Detox
2025-06-06 12:00 - 13:00 | VIRTUAL, Portland, OR, United States
Join us virtually as we wrap up the final wellness week of the year with a yoga and stretch class to shake off all those cobwebs that build up writing those essays! This class is designed to be done at your desk and really target all the muscles that get cramped sitting at your computer all day.
Friday, 6/6 Time TBD More Info to Come! via Zoom

OHSU Commencement & SPH Hooding
2025-06-06 08:00 - 17:00 | Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, 97232, United States
Date: Friday, June 6, 2025, at the Oregon Convention Center.
Who can participate: All master’s and doctoral students.
Regalia: Order your regalia by April 11, 2025 here: OHSU Regalia

Learn how to apply to graduate here: OHSU Graduation Information

Watch Live Feed – OHSU & SPH Hooding Ceremony

Q&A With Dr. Virginia A. Caine, MD
2025-06-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Vanport 515, 1850 SW Fifth Avenue, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
Join us for a Q&A Session with Dr. Virginia A. Caine!
Virginia A. Caine, MD is the Director and Chief Medical Officer of the Marion County Public Health Department. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine Infectious Diseases Division and Adjunct faculty at IU Fairbanks School of Public Health. She served as a Past President for the American Public Health Association. She is the 125th President of the National Medical Association. She received the Bio Crossroads “2017 August M. Watanabe Life Sciences Champion of the Year” Award as the first Black and first woman to receive this award and the Indiana Governor’s highest award, Sagamore of the Wabash award for service. In 2020, the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) named her as one of 40 Influential People of the past 40 years.
Dr. Caine works tirelessly to promote and advance public health through innovative programs and unprecedented collaborations. Her boundless energy, vision, and drive to serve people, especially disadvantaged areas, have led Dr. Caine to have her fingerprints on numerous projects.
Light refreshments provided

Write Into Wellness: Bullet Journaling 101
2025-06-05 14:30 - 16:30 | Vanport 620M, Portland, OR, United States
Come join us as we learn how to create a journal that is both helpful and creative! Journals, stickers, and some pens will be provided, but feel free to bring your own if you want to add your own personal style.
Thursday, 6/5 in Vanport 620M from 2:30 – 4:30 PM.

PHE 225 & 325U - Community Hour
2025-06-05 13:00 - 13:50 | Vanport 615B, 1810 SW 5th Ave, Portland, 97201, United States
A welcoming space where students, staff, and faculty can connect, share stories, and build community. It’s designed to be informal, supportive, and grounded in equity-focused teaching. We play student-curated music, chat, and build relationships beyond the classroom.
Spring Term Community Hours in Vanport Room 615B
PHE 225 – Thursdays, 1:00–1:50 PM
PHE 325U (with Ma’Adjoa) – Mondays, 1:00–1:50 PM

Wellness Week: Popcorn, PJS, and Pizza Movie Night
2025-06-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Vanport 515, 1850 SW Fifth Avenue, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
Join BREATHE and the SLC for a cozy movie night! Movie TBD! So, bring a pillow, a blanket, and a friend and snuggle up for a relaxing night.
Wednesday, 6/4 at 6 PM near Space located next to Vanport 515

OHSU Ice Cream Social
2025-06-04 16:00 - 17:00 | OHSU Robertson Collaborative Life Sciences Building, 2730 S Moody Ave, Portland, 97201, United States
The OHSU President’s Office is hosting an ice cream social for students on Wednesday, June 4th from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the RLSB.
The ice cream is FREE and President Stadum, Provost Chisholm-Burns, and university leaders will be in attendance to meet and mingle with students.
RLSB
Outdoor patio/terrace
For more information, please contact the Student Center at 503-494-8295 or studentcenter@ohsu.edu.
