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Features Public Health Research

HIV self-testing shown to save lives, reduce spread

Public health team turns HIV self-testing research into impact for LGBTQ+ community in Portland

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Features Public Health Research

Helping the vulnerable and the marginalized

Understanding the social factors that impact HIV prevention and treatment

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Alumni Features

Bright future ahead for CPHHS graduates, writing award recipients

Two 2016 CPHHS public health graduates and recipients of an OSU Writing Intensive Curriculum Culture of Writing Award are both headed to graduate school. While in their undergraduate programs, Alyssa Rollins and Kodasha Thomas were recognized for their steadfastness and commitment to public health issues by their professors.

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Alumni Features Public Health

PHHS student to receive Thurgood Marshall Graduate Scholarship

Health Promotion and Health Behavior PhD student Ryan Singh recently received news that he will receive the Thurgood Marshall Graduate Scholarship, which honors Thurgood Marshall, the first black American to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Research Students

Alyssa Hersh is Undergraduate Researcher of the Year

Alyssa Hersh was recently named the college’s first Undergraduate Researcher of the Year – a new award to reward and encourage extracurricular scholarly contributions made by OSU undergraduates.

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News Public Health

Study finds improved communication could reduce STDs among black teens

Black urban teenagers from low-income families face a rate of sexually transmitted disease up to 10 times higher than their white counterparts, but recent studies at Oregon State University have identified approaches to prevention programs that might reduce this problem.