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Tag: Mario Magana

OSU Extension vaccination outreach creates comfortable environments

Post author By CPHHS Marcomm
Post date February 2, 2023

Mario Magana answers a question at the COVID-19 vaccine information event.

The event created an environment specifically designed for comfort around potentially confusing and uncomfortable questions about COVID vaccination

Tags COVID, Family and Community Health Program, Mario Magana, OSU Extension Service, Public Health, Roberta Riportella

Community Engagement Features Public Health

Extension begins grassroots effort to increase vaccine uptake among Latinos

Post author By Alexis Croisdale
Post date August 23, 2021

Jamie and Rafael speak to a young Latino woman about the local vaccine clinic happening in Newberg, Oregon

OSU Extension accelerates its local outreach to improve vaccine confidence and uptake in Oregon’s Latino population.

Tags COVID, Mario Magana, OSU Extension Service, Public Health

Community Engagement Features Public Health

Grad student saw Latinx community struggling, so she leaped into action, addressing food insecurity and removing barriers to health

Post author By Alexis Croisdale
Post date August 13, 2021

sunflower butter and other canned goods on a shelf

Doctoral student Nancy Vargas saw Oregon’s Latinx communities struggling with food insecurity, so she stepped up to help get them the resources they needed.

Tags Adam Carry, Mario Magana, Nancy Vargas, Nutrition, OSU Extension Service, Public Health, Tina Dodge

Community Engagement Features

Paying it forward

Post author By Hanna Knowles
Post date December 14, 2018

Mario’s journey to Oregon State began in the summer of 1990 while he was picking apples in Washington and listening to a Spanish radio station.

Tags 4-H, Mario Magana, T50

Community Engagement

So much more than summer camp

Post author By CPHHS Marcomm
Post date August 4, 2016

The hard work and success is Isaac’s. The inspiration, motivation and support is Mario Magana’s. Mario, a CPHHS associate professor, created the summer camps – one for migrant middle schoolers and another for multicultural campers – as a place for a diverse group of Oregon middle school students to converge and gain insight into their personal and career aspirations.