Experienced Faculty With Diverse Backgrounds
More than 150 faculty members work within the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. They have a wide range of expertise, from monitoring and assessing health risks and opportunities in populations, to helping build health-supporting social environments through policy, advocacy, and programs. They are educators, advisors, researchers, practitioners and community leaders. They come from backgrounds in quantitative, behavioral, environmental and social sciences, policy and government, exercise and health sciences and anthropology, among many other areas. They all work in collaboration with each other and with community partners, and are especially focused on the training and education of future leaders and practitioners in the public health fields.
Katrina Hedberg
Biography
Dr. Katrina Hedberg holds an affiliate faculty appointment in the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health as an Affiliate Professor in the Epidemiology programs. In this role, her work includes guest lecturing and collaborating on research with primary faculty.
In addition to this commitment to the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health (SPH), Dr. Hedberg has worked at the Oregon Public Health Division for the past 29 years, most recently as the Oregon State Health Officer and State Epidemiologist. During her career, Dr. Hedberg has worked in a variety of programmatic areas, including Communicable Disease Control, HIV/AIDS, Environmental and Occupational Health, Injury Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Prevention, and Maternal Child Health. Her recent focus has been on cross-sectoral collaborations to address the opioid overdose epidemic, evaluating the public health impacts of retail marijuana sales in Oregon, and identifying and addressing social determinants of health. Across all subject areas, Dr. Hedberg is interested in how governmental public health can collect population health data for program evaluation, policy development and decision-making, and to improve health equity for all Oregonians.
Education, Degrees
B.A., Yale University, 1980
M.D., Oregon Health & Science University, School of Medicine, 1985
M.P.H., University of Washington, School of Public Health, 1991
¹ CEPH Primary Instructional Faculty
² CEPH Non-Primary Instructional Faculty
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