PHE 215 – Why Public Health Needs Indigenous Values: Intro to Decolonizing Public Health
Biography
As a gateway course of the OHSU-PSU undergraduate Indigenous Health Concentration, this foundational course will engage in concepts of Indigenous values, knowledge and perspectives and launch students into concepts of racial healing and racial justice for health equity. This course will introduce students to a decolonizing framework to advance health equity that centers on the strengths of Indigenous peoples.
¹ CEPH Primary Instructional Faculty
² CEPH Non-Primary Instructional Faculty
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.
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