Elizabeth Adams is an assistant professor at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health.

Throughout her career, Adams has worked in maternal and child nutrition, with a focus on at-risk populations and global health.

Her current research focuses on nutrition and child health outcomes and on the relationship between food insecurity and health. She is principal investigator for the OHSU site of the Western Maternal and Child Health Nutrition Partners training grant, and is the nutrition training coordinator for the OHSU Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities program. In 2008 she joined the Oregon Hemophilia Center, where she works as a nutritionist and an epidemiologist. Adams is also a founding member of the Childhood Hunger Coalition, a member of the Oregon Hunger Task Force and a board member for Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon.

Education, Degrees

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1996

Barbara Campbell is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Public Health. She specializes in addictions treatment research, focusing on interventions that increase treatment engagement and retention, and improve the fidelity of treatment delivery. She also conducts research on smoking cessation and the effectiveness of anti-tobacco messages for individuals with co-occurring substance-use disorders. She is a co-investigator within the Western States Node of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network. She also is a licensed psychologist and practicing clinician in Portland. She provides mental health and substance abuse treatment services, as well as consultation and clinical training. 

Education, Degrees

M.A., University of New Mexico, 1978
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1981

Brian Gibbs serves as Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and chief diversity officer at OHSU, responsible for diversity initiatives within OHSU’s clinical, educational, and research missions.

Before coming to OHSU and the School of Public Health, Gibbs was associate vice chancellor for diversity for the University of New Mexico Health Science campus. Prior to that, he served as associate dean for diversity and cultural competence at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Early in his career, he spent ten years as the founder and director of the Program to Eliminate Health Disparities at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was a senior research scientist within the Department of Health Policy and Management.

Education, Degrees

B.S., Eastern Michigan University, 1981
M.P.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1985
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1995

Awards and Honors

Pew Health Policy Fellow, Brandeis University, 1991

Publications

• A Novel Measure of “Good” Mentoring: Testing Its Reliability and Validity in Four Academic Health Centers.   Pololi LH, Evans AT, Civian JT, Gibbs BK, Gillum LH, Brennan RT.  J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2016 Fall;36(4):263-268. doi: 10.1097/CEH.0000000000000114.
• Faculty Vitality-Surviving the Challenges Facing Academic Health Centers: A National Survey of Medical Faculty.   Pololi LH, Evans AT, Civian JT, Gibbs BK, Coplit LD, Gillum LH, Brennan RT.  Acad Med. 2015 Jul;90(7):930-6. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000674
• Definition, measurement, and health risks associated with sedentary behavior.   Gibbs BB, Hergenroeder AL, Katzmarzyk PT, Lee IM, Jakicic JM.  Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2015 Jun;47(6):1295-300. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000517.
• Reducing racial and ethnic health disparities: exploring an outcome-oriented agenda for research and policy.   Gibbs BK, Nsiah-Jefferson L, McHugh MD, Trivedi AN, Prothrow-Stith D.  J Health Polit Policy Law. 2006 Feb;31(1):185-218
• Creating a state minority health policy report card.   Trivedi AN, Gibbs B, Nsiah-Jefferson L, Ayanian JZ, Prothrow-Stith D.  Health Aff (Millwood). 2005 Mar-Apr;24(2):388-96.
• Reducing health disparities: from theory to practice.   Prothrow-Stith D, Gibbs B, Allen A.  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2003 Mar;12(3):256s-260s. No abstract available.    PMID: 12646523

Emily Henkle is an epidemiologist and research assistant professor who in recent years has focused on projects related to pulmonary infectious disease. Her research has focused on nontuberculous mycobacteria – or NTM disease – along with pediatric Haemophilus influenzae and pneumococcal infection, infant influenza and adult influenza in healthcare workers. She  approaches her research with both the individual and public health in mind, producing data on disease burden, incidence and natural history of disease.

Her most recent work has explored patient-centered research and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic NTM infection and underlying bronchiectasis. She is studying correlations between health-related quality of life measures and NTM disease activity and is measuring the efficacy of current treatments in relation to respiratory symptoms, physical functioning and fatigue.

She also manages a statewide special surveillance project with the Oregon Health Authority and coordinates enrollment and data collection for the Northwest NTM Biobank.

Education, Degrees

M.P.H., University of California Berkeley, 2000
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2010

Awards and Honors

• 2007-2010, Pre-doctoral fellow, NEI Clinical Trials Training Grant
• 2016, Junior Investigator Award, ATS/ALA

Karli Kondo is an investigator and the associate director at the Portland VA Evidence-based Synthesis Program, a vice-chair of the Institutional Review Board at OHSU and an assistant professor in the School of Public Health.

Through her work with the VA Evidence-based Synthesis Program, she leads and participates in evidence reviews for VA stakeholders. Most recently, she led an evidence map of more than 400 studies examining both the prevalence of health disparities among veterans and the interventions designed to address disparities in VA settings. Some of her other reviews have examined the benefits, harms and intervention factors related to pay for performance in healthcare, interventions to address medication adherence in patients with serious mental illness, and the benefits and harms of intensive blood pressure treatment in older adults. Her personal research focuses on the effects of acculturation on health in the Hispanic/Latino community.

Education, Degrees

B.A., Pacific University, 2001
M.A., Pacific University, 2004
Ph.D., University of Rhode Island, 2012

Awards and Honors

• 2013, American Psychological Association (Division 38) Early Career Travel Award
• 2006, University of Rhode Island Graduate Minority Fellowship

Paul Lewis is the Multnomah County Health Officer and the tri-county health officer for Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties. He also is an associate professor in the School of Public Health.

His special interests include the social determinants of health, developmental origins of disease, health communication and good government. His current projects include decreasing opioid-related deaths, planning the emergency medical system for the next generation and improving air quality through health-based regulation.

He joined the OHSU pediatrics faculty in 1996 where he focused on virology laboratory research and launched the region’s first pediatric HIV clinic. In 1997, he became the OHSU hospital epidemiologist, beginning a career pivot to population health that led to his joining the Oregon Public Health Division in 2004.

In 2008, he began serving as health officer for Washington and Clackamas counties. In 2014, he became the Multnomah County Health Officer.

Education, Degrees

M.D., Stanford, 1987
M.P.H., Portland State University, 2013

Cat Livingston is board-certified in family medicine and in public health and  preventive medicine. She spends half her time at the OHSU Family Medicine Clinic at Richmond in Southeast Portland, serving primarily a low-income population in a primary care medical home. The other half of her time is dedicated to policy work at Oregon’s Health Evidence Review Commission. She performs evidence reviews and translates these into coverage policy for Medicaid and other payers. 

Education, Degrees

B.A., Oberlin College, 2000
M.D. Harvard Medical School, 2005
M.P.H. Portland State University 2009