Lisa Oakley’s decision to pursue an MPH from Oregon State led to a career with the CDC

Lisa Oakley’s decision to pursue an MPH from Oregon State led to a career with the CDC
Alexis Merculief chose Oregon State’s HDFS PhD program for its supportive environment and focus on how context shapes children’s development
Two key lessons learned
We do. Researchers support children, families and educators across Oregon.
Dean Brian Primack’s goals: unlock potential, focus on community, bring people together and help ensure health for all.
“I sort of live and breathe policy. Policy takes ideas and values, philosophies and innovation and attempts to mark those things that exist in a realm of imagination and thought and emotion, and then to map them into society in a very real, lived way.”