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.
Kristen Crusoe
Biography
Kristen Crusoe’s interest lays in exploring and developing frameworks for leadership and management that bring a holistic rather than reductionist perspective to systems. She has experience in both acute and community based care systems. She has practiced in a variety of leadership positions in healthcare and academia, including nurse manager, clinical director, sexual assault nurse examiner, dean and consultant. She currently teaches in the OHSU School of Nursing’s Health Systems Organizational Leadership Program along with the School of Public Health.
Crusoe has extensive organizational leadership experience at all levels of organizational functioning, specializing in group dynamics and “complexity science” applications to organizational settings. With a clinical background in psychiatric and mental health nursing, her experience working with individuals and groups translates into principles that apply in organizational settings, especially in managing conflict and building positive group and team interactions.
Education, Degrees
B.A., International Affairs & Asian Studies, Florida State University, 1970
A.S., Nursing, Tallahassee Community College, 1985
Master’s, Nursing, OHSU 2001
Ed.D., Oregon State University, 2010
Awards and Honors
2009, Oregon Psychiatric Association Access Award
¹ CEPH Primary Instructional Faculty
² CEPH Non-Primary Instructional Faculty
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