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Faculty and Staff Features HDFS

College of Home Ec alumna keeps it in the family

Teresa Ashford

Lifelong Beaver and new Human Development and Family Sciences instructor creates a climate of curiosity to empower the next generation of leaders

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Faculty and Staff Features Public Health

Alumna combines passions to create healthy futures

Ashley Vaughn with trees in background

Get to know Ashley Vaughn, the College of Public Health and Human Sciences’ newest public health instructor.

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Faculty and Staff Features HDFS

HDFS professor tackles poverty and inequality

David Rothwell talks outside the Benton County Courthouse on a bright, sunny day

Associate Professor David Rothwell  is the new Barbara Emily Knudson Chair in Family Policy in Oregon State’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

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Community Engagement Features Public Health

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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Community Engagement Features Public Health

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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Features News Public Health Research

New grant will help OSU researchers find ways to prevent injury in Dungeness crab industry

Boats at a marina where researchers met with crabbers

OSU professors Jay Kim and Laurel Kincl will build on existing research with the Dungeness crab fishing industry, where workers suffer high rates of both fatal and non-fatal injuries, thanks to a grant from the NIOSH.