OPB: US Firearm Suicide Rate Reaches Record High
The national age-adjusted suicide rate ticked up slightly in 2018, from 14 per 100,000 people in 2017 to 14.2. The... Read More
SPH faculty member appointed to Oregon Mortuary and Cemetery Board
Senior Instructor II, Dr. Debra C Harris, (Deb) was appointed and confirmed by Governor Kate Brown, on May 8th, 2019,... Read More
Our Partners: “What’s Work Got To Do With Total Worker Health?” Podcast
The podcast team in the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at OHSU released the latest episode on the institutes’ podcast.... Read More
Our Alumni: Short-Term Incidence of Sequelae of HCV Infection Among Medicaid Beneficiaries in Oregon
The results of a project led by Ann Thomas, MD, MPH with help from other SPH partners and students has... Read More
Our Alumni: Oregon County Epidemiologist Proves The Value Of Shoe-Leather Epidemiology In Combating Suicide
Oregon epidemiologist Kimberly Repp (SPH alum) has been working for two years to give health departments the best tools in... Read More
Our Faculty: Expert commentary by SPH Faculty Kevin Winthrop: Influenza vaccination in RA patients
Summary: Infectious disease specialist Kevin Winthrop comments on the study by Inés Colmegna and colleagues looking at the effects of... Read More
Podcast: What’s work got to do with it?
At the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences and Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, we are excited to announce the launch of a... Read More
Our Students: SPH Students published opinion on Gender Violence
SPH students Kelsey Priest and Caroline King recently published an opinion article comparing the NIH’s stance on Gender violence with... Read More
PSU most innovative school in Oregon
Portland State University is ranked the most innovative school in Oregon and maintained other honors in rankings released today by... Read More
Our Partners: Safe Consumption Sites and Other Harm Reduction Strategies for the Opioid Epidemic
If you missed the seminar with Dr. Susan Sherman of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, the video is now... Read More
SPH research: Women who rely on tips are more likely to report symptoms of depression, stress
The tipping point: Service sector employees are more susceptible to mental health issues Study finds women who rely on tips... Read More
Kweku Wilson
Kweku Wilson, Ph.D., Health Systems and Policy at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, grew up around hospitals and health... Read More
Meet our faculty: Carlos Crespo
Increasing diversity in health sciences careers and research Carlos Crespo, professor at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, started bringing local... Read More
A pill that prevents HIV? The SPH seeks to understand why few know about it
Here is what most people know: A person diagnosed with HIV, who two decades ago would almost certainly have died... Read More
Preventing stress, weight-related conditions among bus drivers
Researchers at OHSU and PSU will enroll about 300 new bus operators from multiple Western U.S. cities to help them... Read More
Understanding transgender homicide rates
Keren Landman talks to epidemiologist Alexis Dinno, faculty at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, about the difficulty of understanding... Read More
Pigs, Tapeworms, and Epilepsy
For Ian Pray, those six weeks in Peru were more than a public health adventure. Ian’s “field experience” in Peru... Read More
Gender Approaches to Health
Jocelyn Wagman has thought a lot about how women and men approach health differently. Throughout her public health education, she... Read More
How moms’ stress affects babies
Jenna Ramaker has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and spent several years at OHSU doing post-graduate research on Alzheimer’s disease. The... Read More
Density, Poverty, and TB
Jadie Karratti-Abordo’s field experience showed her the realities of public health in some places in the world — in a... Read More
Checking on health policies
The first lesson Jwan Mohammadi learned from her “field experience” in the real world of public health was this: Some... Read More
Health question: What’s a pig worth?
What is a pig worth to a Peruvian farmer? And how might knowing that actually help prevent a horrible infectious... Read More
Your health spans generations
It’s about cause and effect – over generations. It’s a mind-bending concept, but one that over the past two decades... Read More
Worker Health and Safety
More than 4,800 U.S. workers suffered fatal injuries on the job in 2015. Forty-four workers were killed on the job... Read More