College of Health News and Updates

Category: Public Health

Nearly $5M grant to establish children’s environmental health research center at Oregon State

Post author By COH Marcomm
Post date January 26, 2022

The OSU center will be housed in the university’s Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families within the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

Tags ASP3IRE Center, Hallie E. Ford Center, Megan Macdonald, Megan McClelland, Molly Kile, OCHI, Oregon Center for Health Innovation, Perry Hystad, Veronica Irvin

Health Tips Public Health

What’s in your water?

Post author By COH Marcomm
Post date January 13, 2022

College and Extension faculty share the ins and outs of ensuring your drinking water is safe. The big takeaway: Arsenic, nitrate and lead are tasteless, odorless and invisible. The only way to know if they are present is to test your water using a certified laboratory.

Tags Chrissy Lucas, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health Promotion and Health Behavior, Molly Kile, Public Health, Public Health Insider, Veronica Irvin

News Public Health Research

Pregnant women living near fracking sites face higher risk of hypertension

Post author By COH Marcomm
Post date January 3, 2022

In the U.S., an estimated 11.3 million people live within 1 km of a drilling site.

Tags Environmental and Occupational Health, Mary Willis, Molly Kile, Perry Hystad

Alumni Features Public Health

From here to there: A Q&A with Community Health Coordinator Marissa Lovell, MPH ’21

Post author By Alexis Croisdale
Post date November 9, 2021

Health promotion and health behavior alumna Marissa Lovell, MPH ’21, joined the college to discuss life after college, her current role and more.

Tags Alumni, Health Promotion and Health Behavior, Marissa Lovell, Public Health

Community Engagement Features Public Health Research Students

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

Post author By Alexis Croisdale
Post date October 28, 2021

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.