College of Health News and Updates

Category: Community Engagement

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, OSU Extension Service, Public Health, Tina Dodge

Community Engagement Features Public Health

OSU accelerates local efforts to improve Latinx vaccine confidence and uptake

Post author By Alexis Croisdale
Post date June 16, 2021

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.

Tags COVID, Lauren Kramer, OSU Extension Service, Public Health, Roberta Riportella

Community Engagement News Public Health

Vaccinations to be offered during Corvallis TRACE-COVID-19 sampling June 5 and 6

Post author By Alexis Croisdale
Post date June 3, 2021

Oregon State’s TRACE-COVID-19 program is partnering with Samaritan Health Services to offer door-to-door vaccinations as TRACE conducts its seventh community survey in Corvallis for the coronavirus.

Tags COVID, Javier Nieto, Jeff Bethel, Public Health, TRACE

Community Engagement Faculty and Staff Features HDFS

Doing hard things is second nature when students’ education is on the line

Post author By Alexis Croisdale
Post date May 27, 2021

Thanks to parents, preschoolers, and OSU students and staff, the OSU Child Development Center kept the doors open and survived an unprecedented year of service delivery in person.

Tags Children's Health, Dana Crawford, HDFS, Jacquie Keller, Kathleen McDonnell, Olga Martinez-Alvarez, OSU Child Development Center

Community Engagement Features Public Health

Corvallis TRACE-COVID-19 sampling June 5 and 6 to include saliva testing for antibodies

Post author By Alexis Croisdale
Post date May 26, 2021

Oregon State University will conduct its seventh round of TRACE-COVID-19 sampling in Corvallis with the addition of testing saliva for COVID-19 antibodies.