Category: Community Engagement

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Community Engagement Features Public Health Research Students

Center for Health Innovation connects students with the community for hands-on learning and outreach

Surge bench students Sarra Hawash, Marisol De La Torre, Shahad Almahdi and Tia McPharlin take time out with Sandi Phibbs at a max vaccination event.
Surge bench students Sarra Hawash, Marisol De La Torre, Shahad Almahdi and Tia McPharlin take time out with Sandi Phibbs at a max vaccination event.

Since August 2020, a talented team of students in OSU’s Center for Health Innovation have provided “surge” support to local public health departments in response to COVID-19.

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Medical mistrust, misinformation factor into Latino vaccine hesitancy

Female wearing a whale face mask has band aid on right arm where a covid vaccine was received

Lack of trusted medical sources, traumatic past experiences with medical care and widespread misinformation have contributed to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Latino communities.

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Community Engagement Features Nutrition Public Health

Former OSU Women’s Basketball player re-connects with the community to serve up meals to Oregon’s frontline workers

Volunteers, health care workers and more from Selfless Servings gather for a group photo at their final event

Teaming up with a CPHHS professor, Mikayla Pivec, ’20 created Selfless Servings to deliver meals to Oregon’s frontline workers throughout the pandemic.

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Extension begins grassroots effort to increase vaccine uptake among Latinos

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.

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

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.

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OSU accelerates local efforts to improve Latinx vaccine confidence and uptake

Volunteer group photo, all wearing face masks
Volunteers pose at the Latinx Health Fair and vaccination clinic at St. Frederic Catholic Church on June 6. The clinic was coordinated by Consejo Hispano, the Oregon Health Authority, and Columbia County Public Health.

Oregon State is accelerating its local outreach to improve confidence in COVID-19 vaccines in the state’s Latinx population, which has been disproportionately affected by the pandemic and whose vaccination rate lags behind other races and ethnicities.