OPB: US Firearm Suicide Rate Reaches Record High
The national age-adjusted suicide rate ticked up slightly in 2018, from 14 per 100,000 people in 2017 to 14.2. The... Read More
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Our Alumni: Short-Term Incidence of Sequelae of HCV Infection Among Medicaid Beneficiaries in Oregon
The results of a project led by Ann Thomas, MD, MPH with help from other SPH partners and students has... Read More
Our Alumni: Oregon County Epidemiologist Proves The Value Of Shoe-Leather Epidemiology In Combating Suicide
Oregon epidemiologist Kimberly Repp (SPH alum) has been working for two years to give health departments the best tools in... Read More
Our Faculty: Expert commentary by SPH Faculty Kevin Winthrop: Influenza vaccination in RA patients
Infectious disease specialist Kevin Winthrop comments on the study by Inés Colmegna and colleagues looking at the effects of a... Read More
Podcast: What’s work got to do with it?
At the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences and Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, we are excited to announce the launch of a... Read More
Our Students: SPH Students published opinion on Gender Violence
SPH students Kelsey Priest and Caroline King recently published an opinion article comparing the NIH’s stance on Gender violence with... Read More
SPH research: Women who rely on tips are more likely to report symptoms of depression, stress
The tipping point: Service sector employees are more susceptible to mental health issues Study finds women who rely on tips... Read More
A pill that prevents HIV? The SPH seeks to understand why few know about it
Here is what most people know: A person diagnosed with HIV, who two decades ago would almost certainly have died... Read More
Public Health Is… in your zipcode
What’s in a zip code? Your health, as it turns out Dean David Bangsberg discusses the role public health education... Read More
Preventing stress, weight-related conditions among bus drivers
Researchers at OHSU and PSU will enroll about 300 new bus operators from multiple Western U.S. cities to help them... Read More
Understanding transgender homicide rates
Keren Landman talks to epidemiologist Alexis Dinno, faculty at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, about the difficulty of understanding... Read More
Your health spans generations
It’s about cause and effect – over generations. It’s a mind-bending concept, but one that over the past two decades... Read More