Anna Harding has concerns about environmental exposures to indigenous populations, and those have led her to become an advocate for extra protection for tribes, working with federal agencies to clean up sites and protect tribal lands.
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“We are making changes, but resistance is still there. We aren’t just changing laws…we’re changing a culture.”
“It’s great to be ‘Green’, but I think that term means too many things to too many people. In some places it’s downright derogatory,” says Dustin who was recently named environmental sustainability coordinator for the City of Sunnyvale.
The overall goal of the Latino Health Project is to increase understanding of unintended pregnancy among female and male Latinos (ages 18-25) residing in rural Oregon by examining factors which influence contraceptive use, sexual risk behavior, and HIV/STI prevention.
Her eyes still tear up as she tells the story of the woman who brought her 15-year-old son to the remote village clinic. “He was very sick with rheumatic fever – he couldn’t walk, he had a high fever and was in a lot of pain, and he needed help immediately or he was going to die,”
Growing up I knew I wanted to be in the health care field and I also knew I did not want to be a clinician. I started my time at OSU in the Business School and then switched to Public Health my junior year. I chose to focus on health care administration – a perfect area for me as I got to use both my business skills and public health skills.