Clinical research funding continues to lag for the U.S. population of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, even though the nation’s largest biomedical funding agency has pledged to prioritize research on diverse populations, a new study from Oregon State University shows.
New assistant vice provost buoyed by two generations of public health mentors.
Researchers from the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community of northwest Washington and Oregon State University have been awarded more than $1.6 million from the National Science Foundation to expand an environmental education program that focuses on traditional native foods. The five-year project is designed to address the challenges and concerns facing place-based people whose health, culture […]
Public health students and faculty engaged families in health promotion activities as part of Corvallis’ seventh annual Get Outdoors (GO) Day.
Their degrees and futures are diverse, but these graduates have a common vision and purpose – to improve health and well-being for all.
An R03 application that Marit Bovbjerg submitted (“Home birth in the U.S.: Data-driven safety improvements,” with Melissa Cheyney, OSU anthropology) was recently funded by NICHD. This award is exciting from a policy and national agenda perspective because this is the first time that the NIH has funded home birth research.