CPHHS undergraduate students are learning the importance research has on influencing the health and well-being of the community and beyond through the Undergraduate Research Awards Program (URAP).
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On your mark. Get set. Wheel!
Help raise disability awareness by taking a spin around the MU quad – in a wheelchair – during this year’s Wheel-A-Thon from noon-6 p.m. May 11-13.
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Toward Optimal Health
OSU researchers are sloughing off old allegiances to disciplinary silos and joining forces for a healthier humanity.
“Right now, I am interested in exploring the unintended consequences of policies that at first glance might not be viewed as public health policy. My current research links agriculture and forest policy to mental and physical health,” says CPHHS associate professor Steph Bernell.
There’s a paradox in Oregon’s hunger picture: Families who are short on food may end up overweight. That’s because dollars stretch farther on “high-energy” foods (noodles, bread and other carbs) than on “high-nutrient” foods (fresh fruit, fish, poultry and other vitamin- and protein-rich items).
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Child obesity
Everyone knows that Americans are too fat and getting fatter. Fully two-thirds of adults and one-third of children tip the scales at unhealthy weights. But figuring out what to do about a problem so tightly stitched into the cultural fabric is a big unknown.