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Liv Ainsworth

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Adjunct Faculty Community Health

Biography

Liv is an adjunct instructor in the Community Health department, teaching Our Community, Our Health and Finding Your Path in Public Health. They’re also a 3rd year PhD student in the OHSU-PSU Community Health department and is intending to focus her dissertation work on how communities take care of each other outside formal health systems through mutual aid networks.

She works as a researcher with the PSU Institute on Aging and as a consultant helping lead a Learning Collaborative among federally qualified health centers in Chicago.

Education, Degrees

BA, Colby College, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2017
MPH, Colorado School of Public Health, Maternal & Child Health/Global Health, 2019
PhD, OHSU-PSU SPH, Community Health, 2023-present


¹ CEPH Primary Instructional Faculty
² CEPH Non-Primary Instructional Faculty

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