Categories
Alumni Public Health

Ready to serve the world

Nastassia Donoho, ’14, fell in love with how the public health field can improve communities. She is currently serving with the Peace Corps in Lesotho, Africa.

Categories
Features Kinesiology Students

If you don’t see a solution, make one.

For a child with disabilities, access to mobility makes a tremendous difference in their development and socialization.

Categories
Public Health Students

Future policy change-makers

Instead of sitting through a day of lectures, five public health undergraduate students trekked to the Oregon State Capitol for the OPHA Advocacy Day.

Categories
Features HDFS Students

Mikayla Pivec is assisting for life

You might be surprised to find a student-athlete playing Uno with a homeless woman at a cold weather shelter on Monroe Avenue.

Categories
HDFS News Research

Child care remains in short supply across Oregon

Regulated child care remains in short supply across Oregon, creating child care “deserts” in all 36 of the state’s counties.

Categories
HDFS News Research

Nearly two-thirds of American children live in asset poverty

More than 63 percent of American children and 55 percent of Americans live in “asset” poverty, meaning they have few or no assets to rely on in the event of a financial shock such as a job loss, a medical crisis or the recent federal government shutdown, new research from Oregon State University indicates.