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.
Sydney Gilbert
Biography
Graduate Administrative Assistant for Social Justice
Sydney Gilbert (she/they) is a dual masters student studying public health (MPH – Health Promotion) and social work (MSW – macro concentration). Sydney is a graduate assistant for the Antiracism Initiative and a teacher’s aide for Dr. Dawn Richardson’s Foundations of Public Health course (PHE 511). Her current social work internship is on Central City Concern’s Navigation Team, where they do street outreach to provide survival supplies and service referrals to people living in houseless encampments around Portland. Sydney’s background is vision science and neuropsychology, but going forth they hope to support public mental health and housing with a focus on racial justice, queer rights, reindigenization, and abolition. She is also the goalie for PSU’s women’s lacrosse team.
¹ CEPH Primary Instructional Faculty
² CEPH Non-Primary Instructional Faculty
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