Jenny Rudolph, associate professor of practice for PHHS and Extension Family and Community Health, is taking the reins in leading statewide outreach efforts for the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain Foods, Nutrition and Preventive Health.
CPHHS Professor Ellen Smit saw the All of Us Journey event as the perfect opportunity to share a hands-on experience with her students, who are learning about public health surveillance in the classroom. She says it demonstrated the importance of using public health data and how critical participant recruitment is to the research process.
Hayley is interested in how the world works around us.
“We are trying to change the stigma of being overweight and the negative effect that can have,” Tyler Chase, club president and a senior majoring in Nutrition, says. “Being healthy isn’t about reaching the finish line or having a specific body. It’s a behavior that you can incorporate no matter how much you weigh.”
“Being in school gave me the sense that I could do something more,” Priscila said. “It gave me so much value.”
Rebecca Chàvez graduated with her bachelor’s degree in Public Health with a concentration in Health Promotion and Health Behavior in Spring 2011. For the past three years, she’s worked for Polk County Public Health in Dallas, Oregon, and started in her current role of outreach specialist in 2017.