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
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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
Worker Health and Safety
More than 4,800 U.S. workers suffered fatal injuries on the job in 2015. Forty-four workers were killed on the job...Read More
SPH Research Focuses On Special Populations
Specific populations of people often have specific health concerns and health problems as a group. They may have less access...Read More
SPH Research Targets Health Reform
As U.S. policymakers continue to pursue and debate health care reform — as they have for more than two decades...Read More
What Is Health Equity In Public Health?
The overall conditions in which people live, go to school and work have a profound effect on their health. Those...Read More
What Is Biostatistics?
Researchers in biostatistics at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health help drive and clarify the school’s research by applying and...Read More
SPH Research Focus On Addiction
Opioid addiction has become an epidemic in the United States. More than 33,000 people died from opioid overdoses in 2015...Read More
SPH Research Focus On Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)
The concept of developmental origins of health and disease is simple but profound. And it is changing the way health...Read More
Coordinated care improves health
In 2009, the Oregon Legislature launched Oregon into a new chapter of health care reform. It approved a program intended...Read More
SPH Featured Research Project: Getting truckers to eat healthy
In a job where workers sit for up to 11 hours a day, how do you help them lose weight,...Read More